December 2011 - Grocery Challenge

positivelypurple

Morning!

Hard to believe that December has begun already :eek: Can you put us down for £370 this month please.

mooomin

£12.98 spent last night in Morrisons. I got some lovely fresh pasta reduced to half price, so that's my post-Fat-Club treats sorted for a couple of weeks I also bought some split peas as I'm going to make pea and ham soup this weekend.

The rest was stocking up on essentials like fruit and bread, and buying Mr F some tuna. He thinks he prefers branded tuna but it was £6.99 for four cans of branded (!!!) and 88p per tin for the own brand. Guess what he's eating this week?

Now at £107.15/£200 :eek: 15 days till payday and my January budget though

LavenderBees

Happy December Everyone :j

Well, I've spent £1.17 on eggs & 2 tins of kidney beans in L!dl (MUCH cheaper than the main supermarkets), and then a further £34.66 at Mr Ms on essentials (whisky & wine mainly :rotfl:). Grand total £35.83.

Still can't do a freezer shop yet as I STILL have food to use up Had a long powercut yesterday evening, and hoped it might have defrosted itself....but no :rotfl:

Have a good day, folks!

tessie_bear

hi...grey here today...the weather i mean not my mood....got to put a bit of gammon in the slow cooker...also need to make a shopping list as i always seem to run out os something crucial to a recipe

have a nice day tess

quintwins

morning all, i need to nip to lidl today for toilet roll and bread, we find lidl toilet roll isn't that soft but is soft enough to use and only 15p a roll, i also think it lasts longer (prob becuse it's not as soft) but i prob won't get til later because just after we thought everyone was better ds was sick in the night so i'm still housebound

dinner is sausagerolls rescued from the freezer, mash and beans

tigerfeet2006

Just done my first shop of the month, well had it delivered courtesy of my lovely A$da driver. He is such a ray of sunshine in the morning proper sets me up for the day

Any way first spend of the month is £51 with free delivery.

HelenPie

I'm so raring to go with my new debt busting/frugal enthusiasm that I'm torn between wanting to spend so I can start my spending diary, and wanting NSDs! Obviously the latter wins but I want to start *stamps feet in frustration*

Must remind myself that simply by having planned my meals so as not to spend money that I have already started

Helen x

sproggi

First spend of the month, £6 milk, £1.99 coffee and £2 on the wine gums glitch So £9.99 spent in MrT.

Sproggi

eveie189

Hi all

Could I please set £328.47 for this month? Managed to come in budget last month but have had to reduce this month due to massively overspending on EVERY other budget I have. I am still quite confident I can do it though.

Thanks

Eveie

angelatgraceland

HelenPie wrote: »

I'm so raring to go with my new debt busting/frugal enthusiasm that I'm torn between wanting to spend so I can start my spending diary, and wanting NSDs! Obviously the latter wins but I want to start *stamps feet in frustration*

Must remind myself that simply by having planned my meals so as not to spend money that I have already started

Helen x

Well the fun bit in starting the new month in that diary is to put NSD!
Thinking of diaries now is the time to get a spending diary for New Year. It may be a part used exercise book, a cash book, and old unused diary frm a previous year(just cross out the days)you may not have to actually spend money on it! My favourite is an A5 size which I try to pay about £1 for unless I get given one. Lots of companies do give them away so start asking your friends and family. It is also a nice cheap gift if anyone wants to buy you one!
I put a line down the middle of each page of mine for a non food budget and a food budget as I keep them separate. I also keep a running total all thru so I total the days spend and on the next day write c/f £PP.PP(carried forward) this save time consuming adding at the end of the month and stops me going astray. I've just looked at the "demotivator" as I hadn't seen that before http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/protect/demotivator/#demovtop
and I am pleased to say that I can't find anything to put in it to calculate!:D:j:j:j