November 2022 Grocery Challenge

bupster

Well, my final spend nearly bit me in the !!!!!! as I forgot to take milk into work today and there is no way I was making it through the day without it. But my colleague, God bless her, not only took pity on me and fetched milk for me when she went out to lunch, but refused to take any money for it. ONE DAY TO GO

Doom_and_Gloom

Doom_and_Gloom said:

£222.26/£240.
£17.74 left.

Went to Mr S as had a £3 off £20 spend that ended today and thought better to use that to stock up on some items we will need than waste it. A lot of tins and dry items.
Spent £17.28.
They had carrots at 23p/kg, parsnips at 61p/kg and Maris pipers for £1 for a 2.5kg bag. Good prices. Also managed to pick up 1kg of courgettes for £1.49 reduced. Well worth the trip.


Ending November 

£239.54/£240. 

£0.46 left.

Happy with this.

Blackcats

Well done to us all - under budget, on budget or over budget we are all trying our best.

I'm all done for November and I'm under budget by £43.50.  I've managed this by cutting down on wine 😇, eating out of the freezer to make room for Christmas food and by being fortunate on olio.  

OH got a fruit and veg box from Lidl today - it's fantastic - potatoes, onions, spring onions, 2 aubergines, 1 courgette, lettuce, vine tomatoes, 1 yellow pepper, 2 red peppers, 3 apples, 7 bananas.  I think I'll make a roasted veg dish tomorrow - perhaps with some feta and serve it with sausages from the freezer.

Elisheba

My November spend was £83.82/100 so I'm pretty happy. That was including a bag of fake coal at £6.99 as well which I hadn't budgeted for but had to come from somewhere. 

diminua

I'm declaring at £185.13. No Christmas treats bought yet but one pot of hyacinths I'm counting in because it came from the supermarket and was a total impulse buy. 

mumtoomany

More milk, £3.40. Total for the year now stands at, £2613.75/£2640. Only a month to go! Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

SausageDogSandwich

Another £6 (rounded up) spent this morning on nurofen, rocket lollies and a pack of herbals as it’s the middle child’s turn to be ill now. That should be all for this month but won’t declare until tomorrow just incase.

£157.50/150 spent. 

pinkypig

My month ended on 28th of November and my total is  £89.13/£150 🥳🥳
I have been reverse meal planning to use up my freezer batch cooks and cupboard stocks.  Fresh stuff was TGTG and olio which is great as long as you’re not fussy (and we are learning not to be fussy!).
There is still plenty of things that can be turned into meals so apart from the Christmas period, operation use up is going to continue in December.  

We’ve used our budget surplus from October and November towards a bulk buy logs 😀

goldfinches

I've been languishing on the sofa for most of the month and managing on stores and a couple of trips to the corner shop to get bare necessities. I hadn't been keeping any sort of total but looking through the receipts I am declaring at £106/£129 for my main GC budget and no spends at all for the Baking Budget which I'll roll over into December. 

See you all over in December.

happydenial

Declaring for November on £487.71/500 - a whopping £12.29 left! I’m pleased with that, the point of the exercise is to make me think twice about what I buy which it has.

I’m rolling the extra into December as hoping to buy some festive foodie gifts in the next couple of weeks. Onwards!