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December 2010 Grocery Challenge
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link to Janchallenge is posted above in post number 629. HTHEmma :dance:
Aug GC - £88.17/£130
NSD - target 18 days, so far 5!!0 -
I'd like to declare £153.04 for December please! Only £3.04 over which I am really pleased with, considering the ridiculous amount of food we have left in the house.
I also cooked a turkey for the first time in my life today - did a late Christmas dinner for me and DH! We had Christmas day lunch at my mums but I've been working since, so we enjoyed a rare day off together cooking and eating. I'm sure I'll be back here in a day or two to ask for leftover turkey suggestions!
See you all on the January thread - I dont post on this thread often but I read it most days as it helps to keep me motivated. Thanks again to the lovely people who run the thread xxTrying to jump back onto the moneysaving wagon .... :cool:0 -
I wish all the online OOD food shops would combine into one so I only had to pay one lot of postage
One has cheap pasta, split peas and barley, but another has cheap bread mix, curry pasta and kp choc dips! Why can't they be on the same site so I can have cheap split pea curry?
What's everyone's favourite food website?
I'm considering an order off one of such sites for my carbs/tins/condiments etc, then seeing how cheaply I can live buying reduced/market f/v/meat
All I have left from my approvedfoods order in september is a few teabags and a small loaf worth of bread mix.
I know of and use Approved Foods. What is the other one please?Annual Grocery budget 2018 is £1500 pa £125 calendar month £28.84 pw for 3 adults0 -
Spent $48.44 on a mixture of butcher,market and Mr.S, so seeing as I'm noy doing any more shopping this week I'm declairing a total of $212.22 for december so under budget.£71.93/ £180.000
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Hiya,
I'm going for £330.00 for the month of December
Will finish 31st December.
Previous Total £247.67
Sainsburys £36.06
Declaring at £283.73
Now I am very very pleased with that :T
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Hello everyone.
A lovely new thread. Usual thanks to Pink-Winged, Rosieben & Mrs McC for all their hard work running it.
My January started on xmas eve & I had thought that I had been doing okish this last week with several bargains along the way but have now just added up the receipts since the 24th & already £100.35 has been spent. I am going into town today & I still need to get some things like gluten-free cereal (which is far from cheap), Toilet rolls, ham & cheese. The freezer is full though, althougha lot of it is with gluten-free bread that my DS gets on prescription but there must still be a good few meals in there! I know that there is an £8 turkey crown that I got at Morrisons.
I need to do some baking tomorrow as we are going to asmall party new year's eve & have been asked to bring some food but I think I already have ingredients for that. I am also going to try & suss out how to sell things on ebay or Amazon as we seem to have lots of things that we no longer want or need but I have never sold anything this way before so totally clueless at the moment.
I was reading a debt-free diary the other day & something someone had posted really made me think. A person called Firewalker (I hope its ok to quote them!) had said that she had thought she had been keepinga budget & really had only been keeping a record of expenditure which seems to have been all that I have been doing with this grocery challenge this last year. So although I know I am already probably contradicting myself a little with having already spent over £100 of my January budget & being rather shocked at this, I am really going to try & keep this in my mind from now on when I go food shopping.
Good luck to everyone & a big hello to all newbies.Grocery aim £450pm.Spent £519 August, £584 July, £544 June, £541 May, £549 April, £517 March, £517 Feb,£555 Jan, £573 Dec, £465Nov, £561Oct, £493Sept, £426Aug,£496 Jul, £528Jun, £506May,£498April, £558 March, £500Feb, £500 Jan, £490 Dec, £555 Nov,£566 Oct, £505Sept, £450Aug, £410 July, £437 June, £491 May, £471 April, £440 March, £552Feb, £462Jan0 -
angelatgraceland wrote: »I know of and use Approved Foods. What is the other one please?
Angel,
I think there's one called 'big brands for less' or something very similar. HTH.Long_tall_sally wrote: »Hello everyone.
A lovely new thread. Usual thanks to Pink-Winged, Rosieben & Mrs McC for all their hard work running it.
... Good luck to everyone & a big hello to all newbies.
LTS,
I think you meant to post this on the Jan thread rather than December. HTH
ETA: We're off to town later and that should be our last shop of the year so will declare this evening.
All the best,
SpigsMortgage Free October 2013 :T0 -
Hope everyone had a great Christmas!
Things went a bit crazy in December so I am declaring at £371.21. A little bit over but making all the more determined to stick to budget in 2011.
I'm going to try for £300 in January please.
February Grocery Challenge £301.46/300
To feed - Me, DH, DD, DS and 1 dog0 -
Hello All!
I am declaring for December at £712.63 against a budget of £435:eek::o. This worked out as:
£195.88 for normal adult food, not for Christmas/entertaining
£51.15 for toiletries, cleaning, OTC meds
£63.90 for alcohol at home, excluding stuf bought for Christmas
£250.53 for Christmas food and drink
£58.09 for formula, baby porridge etc for DS
£20.00 for dog food
£73.08 for meals, coffee out
This month has been longer than most for us as I have extended it to the 31st Jan as we will be working on DH pay date instead of mine now that I no longer get maternity pay. I am about £40 over on my Christmas food budget and £20 over on my usual monthly spend. It is the budget that I set that is completely wrong, I have no idea where I got that idea from:o
See you over on the January thread:)Save £10,500 - £2673.77 - 25.5%
Pay off £7000 - £1743 - 19.4%
Make £2021 extra income - £99.750 -
I am declaring for December at £296.20, which is £3.60 under budget. The budget didn't include Christmas food (I have a seperate one for that), so I had reduced the 5-week budget by £50 to allow for that - I had hoped to come in a bit lower, but under is under after all, so I'm happy.DFW Nerd no. 884 - Proud to [strike]be dealing with[/strike] have dealt with my debts0
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