October 2023 Grocery Challenge

goldfinches

@PipneyJane - sorry to hear that your holiday plans have been disrupted by the lurgy and wishing your OH and friend a speedy recovery.
@LadyWithAPlan - I bought my machine second hand on fleabay and it came with one bottle and I bought a couple more when they were on offer at R*bert Dy*s, from memory I spent about £40 total.
@Soontobeoap - there was a recipe for making your own paneer in today's Guardian, g**gle seems to think that you can use lactose free milk if you can get that instead.

In the course of visiting various charity shops during a lovely sunny afternoon here I popped into a small grocers and spent £1.50 on some roasted, salted pumpkin seeds which I plan to include in my next batch of home made crackers.

That makes my new total £31.70/£170 and my average daily spend is £4.52. 

joedenise

Another £3.09 spent on a Morrisons TGTG bag to be picked up this afternoon.  Total spend to date is still under £25 for the week.  Didn't need to buy a joint for today as have taken some chicken pieces from the freezer and I'll cook enough for today's dinner and enough to have cold tomorrow night.

diminua

£84.47 spent - that does include a bottle of Scottish vodka I've had my eye on a while and some posh cheese, but still ahead of where I want to be really. 

otb666

457/600 Half way through my month and only a quarter of money left although cupboards are full so hopefully should be ok.  

Pennypincin

Several small spends to declare.  I've been picking up lots of little bits this week, including some yellow stickers and lost track of what I've exactly bought.
My week starts tomorrow and I've £12.07 to rollover into the online bulk delivery fund.
I've managed a no spend day today too.

LadyWithAPlan

Spending today  £2.70/74.51 bulk .. + £2.30 so £61.05/`£200
£6.39 in Co+p inc my 10% student discount ... included GF oats, some GF biscuits that come from my treats pile and some Co+ washing up powder - i also get 10% of this so  £2.70 was good.

Hello Fresh arrived v late -  7am to 1700 or 1900  was the delivery time - which then got changed to 22.00 (!) then it arrived at 8pm ...not great when it has chicken in ... still I am glad I have 4 bags of mystery food to cook this week plus I have a lot of greens in.
The 6 pack of pork loin  I bought at lidl has kept me going last 2 days .. fried with greens and also a YS stirfry.

@goldfinches i will check on ebay  for a sodastream then so tx

Pennypincin

£11.19 just spent in Tesco, mainly on a bag of frozen spinach, a bag of frozen mixed vegetables and a bag of frozen butternut squash.
Plus a sweet potato, some basic salad veg, half a dozen mixed weight eggs, a cheap carton of milk, a reduced root vegetable mash and a reduced packet of vegan ham.
I'm shocked at the price, and will one day stop just picking up odds and sods and shop better.

goldfinches

I decided to take advantage of the lovely sunny weather here this afternoon and cycled to our branch of Ald* with a very detailed shopping list to see whether I could get everything there or would I have to call in somewhere else as well. I had to compromise by buying two mixed bags of peppers instead of four green and two red, tinned sweetcorn instead of frozen and ordinary mozzarella instead of low-moisture mozzarella which I thought wasn't a bad result. I bought mature cheddar, sweetcorn, red onions, mixed chillies, 2x mixed peppers, mozzarella, extra large brown onions, coriander, romano peppers, parsley, thyme, lemons, vine tomatoes and double cream for a grand total of £15.99 which seemed very good value to me.

That makes my new total £47.69/£170 and my average daily spend £5.29.

Suffolk_lass

I'm on a use up mission for 2 months but had to do a shop for a lunch I was cooking for 20 local residents. So naturally I bought a few things for us too. I have eggs and milk delivered so may just manage a no-spend week, other than milk, but I will need to top up on some veg, dairy and bowl fruit next week. 

I have been growing some veg here so have masses in the freezers and by the end of the month I expect my meat freezer to have rather more room in it. Having been gifted a tray of 12 tins of chickpeas by my friend with the Costco account, so these need to feature regularly. This is because my summer prepping for winter (stewing and bottling, or canning) means there is very little room in my pantry. Ideally I would like to cook the prepared tomatoes I have grown but I still have 14x500ml jars from 2022

I am hoping to keep it at or about £100 this month, against my annual budget of £3000, so I don't need to break into the contingency fund in 2023. I managed £11.84 in September, being away for three out of four weeks!

joedenise

A top up shop for fruit and yoghurt which came in at £11.36.  Total spend this month is now £35.62 leaving £164.38.  DH needs to fill up his car tomorrow in the next town so will take advantage of being there to go to Sainsbugs and Lidl which we don't have in our local town.  Only need a few more things but particularly like to go to these shops for them.