November 2024 Grocery Challenge

Pennypincin

What you've baked nelliegrace looks amazing.
I spent £7.67 in Tesco Monday.
Mainly on 12 medium freezer range eggs, some reduced fruit and veg plus a reduced loaf of bread, olives and an avocado.
I've some frittata and some vegetarian Spanish style omelette I baked yesterday to eat as well as some olives left, half the avocado, half a tub of hummus plus salad and half a microwave packet of quinoa.
I will probably have the egg bits when as part of lunch, possibly with some salad and finish the salad with the rest of the bits.
I've 2 big jacket potatoes and some smaller potatoes plus carrots to use.
I am tempted to use the smaller potatoes and the carrots to make a carrot and coriander soup.
I will need to get cheese for the potatoes and am tempted to get some mayo so I can use the large potatoes baked.
I've plenty in the freezer to use with the remaining potatoes.
One day I will run the freezer down so it can be defrosted and cleaned.

Nelliegrace

Grocery shop at Aldi this afternoon. I was tempted by some diced beef 700g on offer at £4.99, instead if £6.49, so that is now divided into four portions in the freezer for some tasty casseroles in Winter. I checked my receipt and found that the porridge oats were 20p more than the shelf price, so I got a refund and changed them for the essential oats. £18.66 spent. 



Budget £150. £34.74 spent, £115.26 left

Soontobeoap

Started the month well. DH has had a wish for some of the things we used to eat when our kids were small and we were very hard up. Cucumber and marmite sandwhiches are back on the menu. (you either love them or you hate them). We also tried spam and tomatoe sauce ones. Not as good as we remembered but OK. I was surprised that Spam was not such a cheap option any more. Several small shops have been done and then went to Sainsburys today where they had half price lamb. Snapped up a leg for £16.07 to keep the meat stock in freezer up. Total so far £83.80. More than I had hoped at this stage but the lamb was too good to miss. 

Doom_and_Gloom

@JingsMyBucket - it's good to be back. It's now just us though sadly. The last furry one we lost earlier this year. He was rather old; nearly 17 from what we know, maybe older as we were told the ages when we rescued him and his cage mate but we weren't sure the age told to us was correct then.
It's starting to feel like home and it's nice that it is so much more accessible.

@PipneyJane - the long plan is to save whatever we can to try and buy own home eventually (it's a dream we are still striving for) but otherwise this is likely to be our forever home.
OH says he is well trained now after all the years we've been together. Can't really argue with that either, lol. 

@TravelCrystal - those fruit and vegetable boxes are so good. I'm sure I'm not the only one that is jealous. No wonder you didn't leave either behind!

@Nelliegrace - making sure my OH doesn't see your post as he might try and angle at me making baked goods on one of my good days. All of that for under £2 is amazing though.

£3 on a TGTG bag from the local coffee place again. The OH loves their bags. 
£19.49 in L!dl
£32.10 in Mr S.
£4.20 in Waitr*se.

£78.11/£240.
£161.89 left.

carboot_karaoke

@TravelCrystal your Lidl box is great 👌

@Nelliegrace your home baking looks delicious,  reminds me of my childhood and perfect comfort food for autumn 🍂 

zafiro1984

Small spend of £7.58 yesterday at Lidl. I can't remember the last time I saw a £1.50p veg box on offer, so thinking my timing was wrong I arrived at 8am just as they opened. No veg boxes, so I enquired when I was at the cash out to be told that they 'Haven't done them for ages, can't be bothered'!!!! 

£117.27/225

TravelCrystal

That’s so bad @zafiro1984😫
They have even put a bar code on ours so the staff member doesn’t have to specially do it for you. 

Usually find them around 8.30 to 9.30
Tend to go shopping now on Tuesdays, more bargains and less shoppers 

T.C

MissRikkiC

I asked the question this morning at our local Lidl re the food boxes as I was in there at 915am and they said they didn’t do one today as they didn’t have enough to warrant it. The reason they said they sometimes don’t do them is that the food is too far gone which I thought was fine given they weren’t trying to make a buck on a box of stuff you couldn’t then use. 

Yesterday I had spends of £8 at Aldi which was bottled water for the coffee machine, 2 bananas, a packet sandwich as tea for my daughter after gymnastics (first time she’d been and I was very disorganised so I’ll be better next time and take from home) and a loaf of bread (suitable for my son with allergies). 

Today I then had spends from Lidl of £43 which included nappies for home and for nursery for my son, 2 packets of wipes and then various fresh veg, a ham joint (1.3kg) 12FR large eggs, dairy items and tins. I got a free sweet treat (which ended up being breakfast for myself since I hadn’t had chance this morning due to a mad rush getting everyone ready for school and nursery) and I have another one for the next time I’m in there (not sure how mind since I thought you got it at £10? It’s not every £10 is it?) 

That is us done for the week shopping wise with meal plans all sorted until the end of the week. I need to then create plans for the rest but now now spending on groceries until at least mid next week! 

£51/£153 spent 
£102 remaining 

thriftwizard

Eeek! I was unable to get to L!dls this morning; 3 out of 4 routes down into the city were out of action with roadworks and the 4th was (unsurprisingly) gridlocked. So I went sideways to the nearest Sainsbobs, knowing that they're the most reasonable for the tea that's best for our hard water. Net result, I've ended up with about half of what I was looking for, for very little less than I normally spend! £88.97 spent and lots yet to buy... 🙁 

Worse still, it was actually more than that but a proportion of it was for the festive stash, so from a different fund. I don't yet know how much less it would have been from L!dls but I can't get back there until next week & didn't want to find they'd sold out, which happened last year. Sigh...

...but at least I've finally got my cake in the oven 😏

otb666

300/550  half way through so doable.  I have stocked up on beans and grains so should be ok.  I go from 23rd to 23rd.