December 2011 - Grocery Challenge

mum26

Hi all, spent another £1.30 on cat biscuits. No other spending so far, am surprised we are managing ok, will be baking again tommorow for the weekend (children are a plague of locusts!). Dp won a big box of biscuits at work which has helped.

I have £2.50 in nectar points which i'll get some fruit for lunchboxes with for monday and tuesday. Roll on wednesday is all I can say

Diesel is the issue for us, I have a 10 miles round trip school run twice a day plus at this time of year there are extra trips out there for discos and plays etc, I have a quarter of a tank left so it's not looking like it'll last, will have to find some money from somewhere for some more fumes

Ches

Went to Wilk*sons today and stocked up on toiletries and cleaning stuff. Should last us until well into January I hope. Also spent £26.50 in Mr S but that included a large piece of beef for Christmas as we don't eat pork. I have still to buy the turkey and bits and pieces for Christmas but I do have over £20 in Nectar points which I have saved up for this and we don't need a big one as there will only be 3 of us so should be ok. Although I only have £60.12 left for the month I should be able to manage. Plenty in the freezer and cupboards to eat up before the 25th and after there should be plenty of leftovers. I have budgeted for 4 Fridays (I get my H/K money on a Friday) at £50 = £200 but as there is actually 5 Fridays I do have an extra £50 to play with for Christmas extras if needed although so far I am managing to fund these out of budget.

meg72

triticale wrote: »

Hi spendaholic,

I just popped on this thread looking for something (I'm not GC-ing at the mo) and noticed you said page 5 - this is page 3 for me, you might find it useful to change in your forum options so it shows more posts per page, cuts down the number of pages each thread has.

From the 'quick links' above and to the right, choose 'edit options'. There is a setting 'Number of Posts to Show Per Page' if you scroll down, it probably says 'Use forum default', I have it as 'Show 40 posts per page' I think it's the max.

Apologies if you already know this, just thought it might help as I was glad to find this out.

edit: obviously when I say 'this is page 3' I mean the page my quote is from, this is page 11 now![/QUOTE

Many thanks for that makes a big difference. I was on paged 22.

debbiedeejay

Evening all,

weekly drudge round Mr M's -total £42.06 -depressing , did get extra bits for Xmas but nothing fancy just a quorn roast,veggie sausage rolls & 3 selection boxes and wrapping paper.
Even more depressing was that there was no meat or alcohol:(included.

Have got braising steak in SC and I have noticed that each time I use this cut of beef in the SC (I have two and happens in both) it smells "different" to other types of beef - in fact enough to put me off buying that cut again -is it me or has anyone else noticed it too?

Must admit I have been ill past 24 hours and am not really in the mood for food but still I have noticed it before. Had to throw some food out as I just could not face it - will have to declare that on the other "don't throw food away"challenge:o

Doubt will keep under GC this month - but hey you never know.:o

medsdemon

More spends to report= £16.40 today in MrS on hardly anything really , but 2 of our fave wines on offer so bought for xmas as it's usually out our pricerange. OH spent approx £10.40 at A"di on his choice of bits and then I spent £4.60 yesterday on baked potatoes and salad for tea. Oh and musn't forget the £ 6.35 I spent at M&S on party food bits for a night at a friends. Added up that's a shocking £37.75 and we still need to do a proper shop as our cupboards are starting to look bare:o.

freakyogre

£1.37 in Tesco on rice, 4 x noodles, bananas and baking fat/spead.

looie

£1.50 to add to my total from tonight's shopping at m's.

Got an utterly butterly and some bananas.

Doom_and_Gloom

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

Budget - £110
Spent - £80.99
Left - £29.01 + £5.59 catalina (£34.60)

Mr A - £1 (coupons brought it down from £2 - saving £1)
Mr S - £0.89 (coupons brought it down from £8.05 - saving £7.16 )
Total - £1.89

Budget - £110
Spent - £82.88
Left - £27.12 + £5.59 catalina (£32.71)

KolaKube

quintwins wrote: »

my sister lives in derry, she doesn't drive tho so not really relevant just a random fact i thought i'd throw in you know i've never noticed southern choccy bars (makes a mental note to buy some next time we're down that way)


i'm so cold it;s unreal i decided to save oil by cutting down on putting it on and only putting it on when it's dark well i lasted til 3 (after having none on yesterday at all) and now i can't get warm at all the soup i bought for tea should warm me up

Lol I'll look out for her Look out for the down south cadburys stuff (still in the foil & paper wrappers, the mint crisp and tiffin are especially good) - I believe they're made with proper milk still and not mostly veg fat like the are in the UK (although it could all be old wives tales!) but mmmm. I think it's always hard with heating. We've moved in somewhere with gas they pump into a storage tank from time to time... yet to get a bill and we just have no idea how much its going to cost..!

Some more spends to announce.. mum and I have decided to make 2 christmas cakes (a little late I know but we'll feed them with plenty of rum this week..!). Came to £18 for all the ingredients(!!) but I'll take that from a different budget. Sure you can't put a price on a bit of christmas cheer :rotfl:

ShrinkingSavingKaren

Just a catch up post £68 was last weeks goodies, also spent £12 in mrt in the week on bogof's so £80/£400 so doing ok...