December 2009 Grocery Challenge

jade86123

hey everyone, just updated my signature as we did a little 'top-up' shop yday and had to grab nappies and wipes for LO (I have decided these are what is making us skint every month!)
So already over the halfway mark only 7 days into our month, but I have meal planned for upto the week of Xmas and only have 'top-up's to do between now and then..

russetred

can you put me down for £500 for Dec please helen,thanks.Ill still need to do my totals for nov which went waaay over but I have all my meals till next year and all my booze and treats for christmas.Right better get caught up on the posts now.

annie123

Since yesterday I have spent:
£62.08 on food,
£10.20 on contact lenses stuff, soap, and cleaning stuff etc
£10.80 on food stuff for xmas pressies
and its still November:rolleyes:

I've never broken my spend down before but think it might help me keep track of what it goes on.
If you could buy it in sainsburys my budget needed to cover it basically, but if I dont know exactly where its going it will be harder for me to cut back more, which I want to do.
I want my '6 months cost of living' savings back next year, in case I need to draw on it again as I did this last year and DS has an expensive college trip to go on too.

Looking back over the last year, my august spend was amazing, eating lots from the garden and DD away for the month, teenagers, expensive things!

So thats £83.08 out of my £280 budget for the month so far:rolleyes:

mummy2mygirls

Thank you for the aldi advice!! Couldnt for the life of me remember if i could pay by card and didnt fancy having to drag the kids to the bank/cash point first so makes it a little easier...

russetred

I always use my credit card in Aldi as its a cashback one.I dont know if its a scottish stores only thing though.

plzhelpmesave!

hi all

Came in £55 under my £300 november target!! but not sure if I missed stuff off, as didn't record hubbyss spends - need to tighten up on that this month!

Gonna go for £260 this month please - £65 a week for 2 adults, and 3 kids (all on school lunches).

Have loads of freezer stuff so will plan meals around what we have in, and can be used up first. Have a 750points voucher on a £50 tesco online shop, so will use that this month too to get the best offers!!

Rough weekly guesstimate:
£30 weekly meat/fish, fuit & veg, milk & bread
£35 for everything else - inc lunch box stuff

mark55man

overspent a little in Mr L, aiming for £30 so I could use the £5 voucher - seemed so wrong trying to spend more money - ended up stocking up on Opticat cat food for the month. I already recorded the £30 spend against November challenge (and reduced budget for december) that makes my first spend in December £5.42 / £500 (and we haven't even started yet)

fish pie tonite - value white fish, value prawns in a BOGOF cheese sauce with mash

brummiebabe

Well am in again for December....put me down for £400 please!! Have already spent £136.70 :eek:!!! Next few week's shouldn't be as bad though...we're not doing xmas dinner, but will obviously buy some stuff towards it!!

SarahNeedle1872

Hiya everyone... would love to join again this month! Have declared my spends and discoveries in November, and would like to go in for £400 again this month. I have already done one week's meal plan, and put an order in for about £80, but I'm determined to come in this month! Going to have a good look through the recipes (I'm sure I said that last month, but this time I will ) Half of my problem is that I am just not organised!

Thanks Pink, Helen and Rosieben for running the challenge

Sx

prettypaula

have done a bit more little things today in Mr M, including the last of the xmas selection boxes i needed plus wrapping paper, ive included it all in my signature.