December 2010 Grocery Challenge

losingpatience

I think you've missed me off the list . I'm aiming for £280 in December to allow for the new years eve dinner I'm doing as well as extra bits and pieces over the festive period

mummyroysof3

well i was going to ask to join but ive added up for november and it comes to £488 between tesco, netto and farmfoods. now im sure some of that will be non food stuff or christmas presents but still is alot, must try to better this month

ifonlyitwaseasier

woot, new thread and i'm back in the game!!!

~:)

Phoolgrrrl

please put me down for £100 for December. Been doin pretty well with GC but new job has a canteen and temptation has been strong! Planning to get back into making soups

natsing

Morning All
Missed last month, but actually kept within my usual £150, so please can you put me down for the same this month, £40 spent already!

~moneysavingnovice~

Could I have £400 for December please.

This is to last up till the 30th, and includes all the usual stuff plus extra for Christmas food&drink, work Christmas meals/parties etc.

brodie1_2

Can you put me down for 300 this month
Brodie1

moonpixiewitch

please include me for December , I would like to try for £300 again

moonpixiewitch

owing to the weather forecast and the fact we got caught out last year , we went out and stocked up the store cupboards at the weekend . Bought loads of tinned and dried pulses, lentils and longlife milk , toilet roll , cat food and cat litter . Also spent £9.50 in M&S on reduced items - got 2 packets of lovely smoked salmon, 2 pots of veg soup and some tuna steaks . Both freezers are now rammed full of meat fish and frozen veg. Also made 4 more sugar free, wheat free, egg free dairy free christmas puddings at the weekend , they are meant to be for presents but I may have to "test" one for quality control
It looks like the snow will miss us completely - but they said that last year and we had 2 feet of it on frozen unsalted country roads !:eek:
At least if they are wrong this year I can live on xmas pudding :rotfl:

EmptyPurse

Can I join in, please? I haven't visited MSE for *years* - and my bank balance is proof of just how far I've fallen off the bandwagon

I honestly don't know how much I've been spending on food/groceries each month; I've just been buying whatever grabs my fancy whenever I happened to pass by a shop.

Does a budget of £110 for the month for one person, including all food and household goods (washing powder, loo rolls, kitchen cleaning stuff) sound like a reasonable start? The only thing I'll exclude is the food & drink for a party I'm hosting on the 11th, which will come out of my ents budget instead. It's really important to me to shop locally for my meat and veg/fruit, and I get my milk delivered by the local milkman, so I think that my costs might be higher than if I bought everthing from the supermarket. However, I don't want to compromise on food quality if at all possible! Am I being unrealistic?