November 2010 Grocery Challenge

triticale wrote: »

... I really enjoyed last month, I made batches and batches of walnut oat cookies and choc orange muffins, hm sausage rolls, pies, hm yorkshire puddings which were fab, pancakes, hm pizzas and wedges, never bought a single chocolate biscuit or savoury snackfood, no ready meals or frozen potato products.

First on my November shopping list is FLOUR! LOADS of it, SR, plain and strong!!:rotfl:
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well done, tritacale! it all sounds lush, any recipes you could share with us please?

adelight - your comment made me too

welcome to the GC Mollina Girl :hello:

Just updated sig.....£9.30 spent at Sainsburys on Milk, bread, cooked meat, sausage rolls and butter.

LOL its not even November yet and already nearly 100 posts in this.

I'd like to join this....I'm heading for £300 on Groceries, Household and Clothes, and hoping to add a couple of Chrimbo things in too if I can find the bargains!!

Did my first ever Mr T online shop/delivery and spent £75 (including £10 off first order), but they sent 5 instead of 6 bottles of wine (I got 2 sets of 3 for £12), so phoned CS and they refunded £4 plus gave me a £5 coupon for my next shop.

The £75 shop included toiletries and household, so hopefully set for the month.

Also started a weekly Veg Box delivery for £9 plus fortnightly eggs and onions...so that should cut down on the need to go to Mr T's too often!!

Should I include last night's delivery in my November total as it will come out today which is payday and it's for November's use...or should I wait for an actual spend in November????

There are 3 of us Me, DH and DS(6) so £300 should be adequate if not more for us this month...That's £10 a day

rosie383 wrote: »

Put me down for £350 for November. I came in under budget for October budget at £231 out of £240. I am increasing as we have Eid this month. How much do people normally increase for Christmas? Being Muslim we don't buy any alcohol, so that makes a massive difference I would think!

I reckon my December is going to be £750 to include all Christmas Dinner Items plus pressies. It might even be more, but I've already got a few pressies set aside for DS, just a couple of biggies to go, and of course DH to buy for - he wants gadgets...but gadgets are only good if they are useful...so my thinking cap is on!!!

I've got some wine in already but also need to do a wee alcohol run in Nov/Dec for when my parents come for Christmas, there will be at least 5 at the table this year!:T

Spent £36.08 so far. This includes beer for DH, formula for DS and biscuits for the builders. They haven't eaten many so I will have to make sure they get finshed:whistle: Also a chippie tea last night when I had no oven or hob.

DH wages are still all over the place with his new job and this is the lowest one he has had in the last 3 months so I need to spend as little as possible as we are about £300 short of what we need this month and I do not want to dip into the savings if I can help it.:(

I signed up to the store cupboard challenge but haven't made much inroads as I have had no kitchen, been in A&E after nearly cutting my finger off and been laid low with a stomach bug. What a week!:rotfl:

We are off to Mr M tonight to make use of a £5 voucher DH found in the paper someone left at his work (the training is working;)). I hardly need any food stuffs but will take advantage of the beer offer and get some formula and dog food.

Off to catch up with the thread:)