December 2011 - Grocery Challenge

flippin36

I did my first shop at Aldi and saved £9 on my usual's that I buy at morrisons - which is a potential saving of £36. However they don't take credit cards (the one I'm using now is 4% for first 3 months) plus morrisons are having a £25 deal which I'm nearly there with.....so I'm going to stick with MrM up until Christmas then I'm going to start shopping at Aldi each week.

The quality of the food was very good, we had a lovely pork joint yesterday and the 7p yoghurts were a hit with my family. We tried the £3 wine - which was drinkable but lacked a bit of body (the white was better than the red). We will still need to use morrisons for some things but certainly worth doing two trips.

quintwins

morning all, we ended up with another take away last night :eek: really must reign this in after xmas we will be limited to one a month at the end of the month

i need milk and betteries but it's snowing and i'm scared to drive in the snow i will have to go collect the kids at lunchtime so i'll see how bad it is then if it's not too bad i'll nip to the shops if it's really bad i'll just go get them and make do until hubby can nip to the filling station tomorrow (for milk not batteries we buy these from poundland i might order some reusable ones online)

dinner tonight is gammon stirfry and chips, i need to clean and emoty the chip pan today i've been putting it off while i watch the price of actifrys go down but i've now decided i'll just clean mine out as i don't need an actifry i just like the idea but not the price tag


it's so cold today i have the heat and elec fire on

flippin36

quintwins keep safe in the snow, I hate driving in snow too have had too many scarey experiences! Are the batteries from poundland any good? We will be getting through loads over the Christmas season as we have lots of battery op lights.

quintwins

flippin36 wrote: »

quintwins keep safe in the snow, I hate driving in snow too have had too many scarey experiences! Are the batteries from poundland any good? We will be getting through loads over the Christmas season as we have lots of battery op lights.

i only passed my test this time last year and i refused to drive in the snow last year hubby said he can come out of work if i need him to again so if i don't feel up to it i don't have to i said it's ok it's only abit of snow but acually it's still snowing so i might ask him to help

poundland batteries are ok we always buy them for xmas toys and remotes, we have a few toys we got last xmas that the batteries have just gone in now which is good going, ofcourse we also have some that have had several by now because they keep leaving them on, they last about a year in our sky remote so pretty good going if you get 10-12 for £1


oh i forgot to add i paid £4 for the kids snack money to school today

dannie

Hello everybody,

I joined this challenge yesterday and didn't mention clearly that my budget will include just food and drink. I don't expect drink to include alcohol for the Xmas/New Year season. Also, I am happy to use my existing food purchases this month so wont be vulnerable to "overspend" on Xmas/New Year food. If desired I could make Christmassey recipes from my own food "stock".

Fiasco55

As I still have a house guest staying with me this month I had to nip out last night to replenish a few essentials. I went to Waitro$e as I had to return an item costing £11.99. My total spend was £18.72 for a few quick meals, some granola, milk etc. I also bout a foody xmas gift too. So I really only spent £6.73 but I will declare the full amount.

spendaholic

I was keeping a running total this weekend and went way over my £40 budget, so I put a load of stuff back - Xmas gifts (stocking fillers) not on the shopping list - and it came in at £39. So still within budget after all.

xxlouisexx56

i am adding an extra 50 pounds on this month as we have christmas and DD's 6th birthday on New years eve.

So 300 pounds for us this month.

I spent 20 pounds in morrisons on friday and then 75 in sainsburys yesterday. That included the baby's milk though.... and i found out they have put it up by another pounds so it is now 11.99!!! I cant wait until april when she is one so i can move her onto to cows milk!

valerie57

Just popped on to update my spends. I can't believe that we have spent so much in a week but one wine order, one Costo stock up, one Boots stock up and 6 (!) trips to the supermarket later the total spent is £332.25. We are now very well supplied with almost everything you could require so I am going to be very frugal from now on. Just a few fresh products (and a Christmas ham) required. I am glad that I went through the process of adding it all up. It has acted as a much needed brake.

HelenPie

flippin36 wrote: »

.... Plus morrisons are having a £25 deal which I'm nearly there with.....so I'm going to stick with MrM up until Christmas....

I'm really frustrated that I didn't know about this. I shop there every week and it was only mentioned to me this weekend for the first time: too late to get the voucher as I don't ususally keep receipts Will have to pay more attention in future!