December 2009 Grocery Challenge

cw18

Today saw a trip to Mr T (went up for petrol, so rude not to nip into the store)

2x small packs value ham (we don't like the one from Mr M as much, and buying smaller packs means it keeps better)
2x packs breadsticks (DD gave me a tray of dips, but I've nothing to dip into them :rolleyes2)
1x value maltloaf (DS enjoys this, and hasn't had any for a few months)

Total cost £2.12

Then Mr M for a 750g punnet of mushrooms (for tomorrow, with steak I got Whoopsied on Christmas Eve)

£1.46 less staff discount (so £1.31)


So that left me a little bit of my Grocery Budget...... until I check the Whoopsies as I left work tonight :rolleyes:

2x long french sticks @ 9p each (normally 60p each)
1x large Tiger bloomer @ 25p (£1)
1x twin pack almond croissants @ 25p (80p)
2x twin pack Chicken & Mushroom pies (from the deli) @ 35p (£1.50 each)

Total of £1.38 less staff discount, so £1.24 to me


and 79p over budget for the month and year

Declaring the month at £129.54



My annual figures stack up as follows against a budget of £1327.00

Spent = £1327.79
Of that, £429.65 was spent on Whoopsie items
The real ticket price of the Whoopsies was £1573.09

So a spend of £1327.79 netted me goods worth £2471.23 :T

My average spend on Whoopsies was 27.31% of the real ticket price
And all-in-all my groceries cost me 53.73% of what they would have cost, had everything been full price

These figures don't allow for the fact that many of my Whoopsies could have been down-shifted, but it's the quickest calculation I can do.

Keiss_21

Declaring £517.59 for December, well inside my £600 target. :j

I am really pleased, as the freezer is full and the fridge has very few left-overs (all eaten!). The cupboards are also well-stocked, so we should be able to avoid doing much shopping other than than the basics of milk, fruit & veg.

Right, off to make some tomato sauce stuff for tonight's nachos! This is a request from DS2. I got the Doritos on offer ages ago, so a nice and cheap midnight snack before scuttling off to bed!

Have a great Hogmonnay and a frugal start to 2010!

Angelfeathers

Hmm. Spending went a bit out of control this month! I thought I had enough put away for the extra Christmas spending, but apparently I didn't! January is going to be a very lean month.

Still, only £50 over in Christmas month isn't too bad, I feel, especially as I was ill for a lot of it. :-)

Declaring at £350.13 for December, please!

pammyj74

Declaring £113.41 :T a very good month for me considering it was xmas month

will try £120 for jan

milliejo

Well budgeted for £280 saying the Xmas food & wine would come out of a separate budget but forgot to keep the amounts separate.

Total spend for December is £377.96

but that includes a £45 turkey as our contribution to a family Xmas dinner, a family meal at our house, bottles of wine, a couple of bottles of champagne & the very good I thought £10 M&S party meal for New Years Eve.
Have also managed to stock up on special offer meat and washing powder so hopefully Januarys bill will be low.

taka

Finally tallied up my 2009 annual total... £1339.43

An annoying £19.43 over... all in the last 4 days of the year! I was 28p under with 4 day to go... :rolleyes:

Toothache before and after dental trip for a couple of days = comfort food and takeaways! :doh:

MC_Emily_2

I'm horrified. I set a budget of £250 for December and, based on the previous month, we should have been able to achieve this easily. However, hubby went mad on spending for Christmas and we spent £292.86 :eek: January will have to be VERY tight now. Fortunately, we have a freezer full of food

So, I'm declaring £292.86 for December

Botany

Happy New Year to everyone!!!

I am declaring for December:

£2.91 OVER budget

I was looking at my Xcel spreadsheet with my GC totals and I noticed that in the last 4 months (I started doing GCs in September 2009) I went even one month, under-budget another, and over-budget for the last two. Taken together, this means I went overbudget by £34.26 during the 4-month period, which averages out at £8.50 per month. Not an enormous amount, but a definite "Can do better" for 2010.

greent

Went over budget - declaring at £464.14 against budget of £450 - I'm quite impressed at that, tbh - 18 months ago we were spending £700 on a 'normal' month - with one less of us.

We're keeping a note of EVERYTHING we spend for the 1st 3 months of the year - I want OH to see where the money goes... (that's the plan, anyway!:rolleyes:)

greent x

rosieben

katycocoa wrote: »

Just done my first shop, only needed a few things.
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Hi Katy, did you mean to post this on the January thread?

Happy new year everyone!