December 2009 Grocery Challenge

triticale

Hi All, I'd like to join December's grocery challenge if I'm not too late!

For December my grocery budget is £70 - I have spent £32.23 of that already getting in essentials etc. I have a generous store cupboard and a full freezer, so should manage it ok.

mama67

Don't know if anyone else has mentioned this; or if it is Nationwide.

But my T€sco has the 500g packs of value British beef mince on a shelf ticket of 50p, the packs are unpriced.

There doesn't seem to be a limit on purchase either.

Hope that helps someone

plzhelpmesave!

Morning all!

Went to Lidl yesterday to use up my £5 voucher, and spent £34.91, but got a trolley full. Pizza & garlic bread reduced, and got other storecupboard top-ups and essentials, so hopefully with a tesco shop this month, I should be ok with just top ups.
NSD day today, made chicken & spinach curry for dinner tonite (from stores) while I was doing pizza and oven chips for last nites dinner!

(think i will round up my £s to make it easier to keep track!)

elizabunny

helen_jelly wrote: »

Hi DH wants to know if you freeze the cauli's as they are or do you do something to them first [notice DH is asking - I don't/can't/won't cook hehe] thanks helen x

PS I've noted all the budgets and am doing them ........................ now

Helen x

Hi helen, with the cauli's I simply split them into florets first, then gave them a wash, dried them off and packed into freezer bags. Then they're all ready to go when I need them. Well done getting your DH so involved, it's great to have a helpful hubby.

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

I dropped off the radar during November, but I'd like to try again this month please (if you'll have me ).

Helen - Please put me down for £420 - slightly higher than last month, but I'm buying a few bits for Christmas each week. My month ends on 22nd, so officially the Christmas week food and treats will come out of Jans GC. Trying to be really good this year and we don't have any big gatherings planned, so will only be treats for us 5.

Have so far paid out for 3 weeks of school meals for 3 children, MrT shop for week one, and week two's is coming this evening, so will update sig then.

Good luck for December one and all.

Coxy
xx

Angelfeathers

Could I be put down for £300 for December, please, since I seem to be almost making it anyway. And I really need to this month as our disposable income seems to have completely disappeared! Okay, so I have a savings thingy maturing on the 5th, but that's got to go towards paying off our debts, because I am DETERMINED that we are going to live within our means and not keep on dipping into our savings as we did before.

At least Christmas shouldn't cost us much, as my Mum is hosting Christmas Day this year, and my son's birthday party (his birthday is actually Christmas Day) will be on the weekend after Christmas so will fall under the January budget.

Got to go to Tesco this afternoon for a bit of stocking up. Will try to keep it under £50 but I've got a horrible cold/cough/headache and haven't the energy to go through the whole list and price it up before hand so it'll probably go well over.

Still, at least I managed to hold out till today, the new month, before I had to go shopping! :-)

helen_jelly

elizabunny wrote: »

Hi helen, with the cauli's I simply split them into florets first, then gave them a wash, dried them off and packed into freezer bags. Then they're all ready to go when I need them. Well done getting your DH so involved, it's great to have a helpful hubby.

Hi

Thanks for the info - gonna get DH sorted now with freezing the cheap cauli's!!!

Helen x

franby64

Hi all - whoopee, I have some money again!

Only spent £3.20 this morning but my first big Tescoshop of the month is coming this evening. This is looking like £100+ - I kept trying to cut it back but it just regrew...like some sort of Triffid! Anyway it is for a fortnight and I should get some NSD's out of it.

Good luck to everybody for December.

Jevvers

Was tempted into expensive organic shop by seeing they had a special deal on toiletry giftsets which wld be great for my friend for Xmas. But while iwas there I spotted that DD's favourite baby food was 10p cheaper than tesco/ sbury so I stocked up.
Then bought some fish in a local fishmongers as they are new and I want to support them. Will be occasional rather than regular tho as they ARE more expensive.
Total GC spend for the day: £1.38 + £3.06 = £4.44

yummyhoney

hi to everyone,,did my weekly shop today and spent€62 ,still need to get potatoes must add the grocery challenge to my signature,,good luck everyone:D