December 2010 Grocery Challenge

mummyroysof3

another £3 to add today, big tesco shop coming tomorrow though

Billie-jo

wssla00 wrote: »

Hi all just wanted to say I may not be here in reality but I am in spirit. Hoping once things settle in January I'll be back with you all. Mum and I are going to have just a small dinner as it really doesn't feel like christmas without dad, but we will just watch the TV and eat snacks and that will do us.

Enjoy christmas everyone!

Will be thinking of you wssla00.
Going to be a difficult christmas for us as well this year with our daughter gone but the grandchildren will keep us going.

Wishing you a peaceful time with lots of wonderful memories. xx

Moniker

Evening all,

Having just seen the weather forecast I might do my 'big' shop on Wednesday evening in stead of Thursday morning this week. I just hope everyone else doesn't have the same idea!

Made a chicken and leek lasagne tonight which was for tomorrow but I think I will keep it for Weds and have a sheperd's pie from the freezer tomorrow in stead. We had cold chicken, jacket potato, coleslaw and salad tonight - which wasn't too bad despite the weather.

I did make a meal plan for this week, but I am not sticking to it rigidly - I am using the same ingredients but not cooking in the way I planned or eating in the same order. Still, I suppose it is good to be flexible and the meal plan is meant to be a guide not a prescription!

We're meant to be having a new fence on Friday but I am doubtful that will happen given the snow which is being forecast. Still, it's a minor inconvenience compared to what some of you have had to put up with!

Take care everyone.

Moniker

wssla00

Billie-jo wrote: »

Will be thinking of you wssla00.
Going to be a difficult christmas for us as well this year with our daughter gone but the grandchildren will keep us going.

Wishing you a peaceful time with lots of wonderful memories. xx

You too. Sorry it's such a tough time. Keep well and do what you feel like even if that is nothing at all x

Sue14

Finally added up my grocery spends so far for December, and have a total of £79.74. I now have most of the food I need for Christmas, including a turkey crown, so hopefully shouldn't have to get much more, but taking my DS and his GF to A*da later in the week to do their big shop, so we'll see, lol!

Diflower wrote: »

Have thawed turkey mince to make Nigel's turkey shepherds pie tonight, intrigued to see how it turns out (it has butternut squash topping).

I made two of these a couple of weeks ago, one we ate and the other is still in the freezer and we may have that later this week. It was nice, but I overcooked the BNS so it was very watery, lol!

BTW, I hope your dad is better soon, my dad was in hospital for a while last year, after a fall and then having an op to remove a blood clot from his brain, so I know what a worry it can be.

Hugs
Sue.

triticale

Morning all,

Did some Christmas food shopping at the weekend. Bottle of £4 Cava and a £1.14 carton of orange juice (oh the extravagance! :rotfl: My usual 60p bottles had use by dates before Christmas) together with some fresh bagels for the freezer. This is my Christmas morning breakfast (Buck's Fizz and bagels with salmon and cream cheese) but the basics salmon scraps were sold out.

Also got a piece of brie and a small packet of crackers. That'll keep me happy along with my tin of Quality Street. Got some lemonade so DDs can have their 'shandies' (lemonade with a dash of my weak french lager :rotfl::beer:)

Because I went to Mr S near closing time on Sunday, there were actually some decent reductions! :eek:

Got a half chicken for £1 (half of it is now stew and half is in the freezer), lean mince for £1.60 (which is use by tomorrow?! Going to make a chilli for the freezer I think), raw king prawns for £1 (in freezer) big baps (oo-er missus) for 25p, grapes for 50p and big pack of stew veg for 60p.

They did mess up on the price of the chicken and baps (charged full price) so I did have to get refund from CS. Seems the reduced sticker-er didn't cover the old barcodes properly and checkout girl was oblivious. Check your receipts everyone!

katholicos

wssla00 and Billie-jo, i will remember you over Christmas and send up prayers for you and your families. (((hugs)))

Christmas is a time of joy, but it is harsh for those who feel that the joy of Christmas is nowhere to be found... when a dearly loved family member has departed from us. I pray that consolation will be found by all who mourn the loss of a loved one during the festive period which can bring back such poignant reminders of Christmas' past. May cherished memories of happier days sustain us, that we may find comfort, despite the pain.

lotti379

So I've gone over-budget. Went to Mr T for some bits to make up meals from what we have left, ended up spending £22.33 :eek:

So GC for December is £112.82/£100

BUT I won't mind too much as a) our grocery month ends on Saturday and b) AS LONG AS WE EAT IT ALL AND DON'T HAVE TO THROW OUT WHAT WE'VE JUST BOUGHT BEFORE WE GO :mad:

(sorry about the shouting, Mr L's attitudes to shopping and waste get to me sometimes )

guccigoo

NSD today and yesterday :j and hopefully tomorrow as well

Menolly_2

Well, I kind-of blew the £80 weekly budget by £10 (not counting the last £9.00 clubcard vouchers) BUT.......next week's shop will be really small (I loathe the Christmas week in Mr T's - the crowds, the shoving and the fact that if it snows again, the Manic Panic Buyers will be out in force and there won't be a loaf in sight).

I needed D/Washer tablets (I now put these in the cutlery basket because the darned soap dispenser refuses to pop open :mad:) and have bought 40 of the "Daisy" ones - hope these are OK, I usually buy Mr T's own brand but these were £3.50 for 40, against £3.99 for 30.

Was on for a NSD weekend, until the Dyson blew up (terminal case, sadly) - so DH and I have had to buy each other a vacuum cleaner for Christmas :rotfl:. We got a Hoover cyclone one for £69.99 so no presents under the tree but immaculately clean carpets !

Keep warm folks, and hugs to those who need them!!