December 2008 Grocery Challenge

princess_leia_3

Did my first Mr T delivery shop and that is due tonight, so will update sig once I have final.
This will be my first month of using a separate account for GC money so hopefully that will help me

Sylvan

Well here goes! DS4 took money for food in addition to his packed lunch today so that's not a good start. Anyone have any ideas how to stop them growing?

Good thing I decided to run it over the calendar month rather than starting at the weekend. We managed to spend £80 at Mr. M's and Mr. A's on Saturday and then the boys wanted to go Christmas shopping yesterday and we ended up taking them to the Pizza Hut . That's the second time this year!

Julimk

Have done the main shop for this week (week 2 for me) and am really hoping I don’t need anything else. Have bought 8 litres of fruit juice, which DD drinks loads of.

Most of it is for pack-ups, as still have loads of mains in. DD gets a HM fruit & jelly pot & HM flapjack (usually with fruit in too), which are already made up for the week. Need fresh fruit & salad each week. And have the stuff to make smoked mackerel pate & chicken liver pate – so will be making those after school.

DD wants to make some HM pasties too. She always said she didn’t like pastry, but after nicking some of my bacon & cheese pasty she decided it was delicious.

queen_of_string

mummy2my I am eagerly awaiting my first order today so will let you know how it goes, on one of the other threads (possibly simplifying life, or things are tough now) lots of people have ordered and not seen any complaints or problems. The only issue was they were so overwhelmed with orders after appearing on here, they shut the website for 2 days to catch up, but thye were upfront about it, which I thought was good. They also posted up a discount code for MSE, for 5%. You might be able to find it if you search, dont think I'm allowed to post it on here. NSD for me today and about 8 thingsw in the fridge that need eating so we will be having one of those for tea. Did the potato/cheese sauce layer thing again last night with a bit of bacon that needed using, is fast becoming a cheap, use things up staple in our house.

mummy2mygirls

queen of string! thank you very much, i did first read about it on a thread on here...somewhere.... so i will go and hunt it down and see if i can find the discount aswell...seen some good things on there but prob some are things i wouldnt normally buy so will go through my order before sending to make sure i dont get to much unnessary things.

I have yummy roast chicken for tonight, and hope there will be lots left for tomorrow aswell and was thinking of doing a ham and chicken pie, anyone got some good recepies?? (ive got loads of ham to use up in the freezer....)

ZLS1984

Hi spent another £11.70 on food and bits, so add that to the £27 and I have spent £38 in total so not doing too bad. I know I should not add in the 27 as it was money my dad gave me but I would have spent it on Carp other wise.

SmellyOldSock

hello

Can you put me down for £300 this month again. Will be a bit more of a challenge as its a 5 week month!

best wishes
Charlotte

mr_and_mrs_t

Hi all
Not looking forward to this dec challenge, however looking forward to Christmas.
Can you please put us down for £250 again. All the best to you all.
Cheers, Mr and mrs t

Phoolgrrrl

Please put me down for £120 mrs m for this month. Have fallen by the wayside but hope to get back on track!

fedupnow

£133.93

The sig says it all really.

I did host a Christmas dinner for 7 in Nov. It was lovely too:D

Unfortunately I am hosting another Christmas dinner 'on the day' for 6.:rolleyes:

It'll be fine......... I hope. Just build up an appetite between now and then. That is ... starve.;)

Good luck all