December 2011 - Grocery Challenge

supersally01

Morning all, spent £30 in m&s yesterday on 2 x meal deals, a bottle of port and some bits and pieces. Will need fresh bread and milk tomorrow, but nothing else this week as freezers have still got much in them. Roast chicken for lunch, may curry the leftovers tomorrow for tea, and keep some for DD13 sandwiches.

budget_babe

Having failed miserably this month I have been pondering hard as to what I can set for December? This is proving hard as it is Christmas and as my Ds is home I need to spoil him.

I shall have to give this more thought, I see from the posts on here that alot of you are very much in control of your budgets.

I really aim to do this from January, as things will be back to normal then.

This Christmas budgeting is so difficlult.

Though I know it is only a few days and soon over.

Off to ponder some more

Take Care
Budgie xxx

medsdemon

Hello all. Please put me down for £200 and I'll see how it goes. I failed to keep track in November but will try hard this month. I find it has got harder to do since I went back to work full-time and sometimes OH pops into the sm after work before picking me up. Must try harder as I don't want all my hard earned money going to those big SM's:mad:.

Started December today. I have about £50 on my Nectar card to do my xmas shop so am not sure whether to count that or not, see how it goes.

Having a HM shepherds Pie for dinner with veggies from the freezer. Weakened and bought a small bottle of red when I nipped to MrS for a pot of Basics natural yoghurt for breakfast tomorrow. In town had to buy a small salad for DD's quick tea before work and bought some whoopsies ( 3 x cartons of Covent Garden mulligatawny soup for 60p each and a pack of picnic eggs for 45p which we promptly scoffed!) so that's £6.69 as my first spend of the month.

Planning a NSD tomorrow as have already prepared the potatoes and am defrosting the spinach for the planned potato and spinach curry, rice and poppadoms for tomorrows tea and have soup bought for our lunches and have just made a Cherry and Polenta cake for snacks with stuff I'd already bought in.

mummybearx

Okay, I will, for the first time ever (!!) join in on this post!!

I have no idea what we spend in a month on groceries, so I will guess a total for this month -

£250

Shall be keeping each and every receipt and will check back in with you all! good luck everyone!!

PennyGrabber

I spent 23p today at c00p. Needed carrots, got carrots, left!!! It did help that we were running late for getting to church, but still a success!

Looking forward to December, as lots of nice family and friends things planned. Got lots of ideas for baking for these occasions too, with stuff I mostly already have, so I'll be able to enjoy myself without worrying about money.

I made some chutney the other day, but stupidly, I put it into old mint sauce jars, and now it smells and tastes of mint! How annoying! Still, it was easy to make, and would be lovely another time with out the mint. Unfortunately, I don't have any jars now, so won't be able to make any more for a while...

I started dieting majorly today - why put off my new year's resolution? I'm going to get a head start on them this year!!!

Had a lovely wintery dinner today - beef stew from the slow cooker. Lush!

Enjoy what little's left of the weekend everyone,

PG x

PolkaDotsAndLace

Room for another little one? I'd like to declare my December budget at £200 please.

It's my first month of doing this, and obviously it's Christmas month as well so we'll see how it goes, but I'm hoping it's a reasonable target for us (two adults here)

Starting from today since we do our grocery shop at the weekend, spent £61.24 in ASDA but that has us all stocked up for the week, and we probably have meat for two. I just need to be resolute about sticking to the meal plan!

boultdj

Can I be put down for £150 please, and thank you lovely ladie's for running the thread and Good Luck everyone.

KolaKube

Hiya everyone!

Having been off track for Oct / Nov (moved into our own place at the end of Oct and the budgets in all departments have gone up the chute!) OH and I are ready to join back in for December at £150 please!

We're both on diets (WW for me, just healthy eating for OH) - so the focus is on F&V and low calorie stuff, which I know can be a bit more expensive, however the flip side is we are watching our portions and things are definitely going a lot further...!

Spent £63.29 today in MrA - plenty of whoopsie meat (e.g skinless chicken thighs, turkey mince, cooked turkey breast, ham) and fruit (punnets of plums going for 25p, mango 25p, blueberries 50p) so I filled the trolley and I estimate we have enough meat to last 2 weeks. We needed quite a bit of household stuff (binbags, washing powder, stardrops etc). Even got some whoopsie shower gel (original source choc and mint!) so stocked up on that. I think we have enough toiletries to last the month (perhaps will need a bottle of shampoo). Time will tell!

So, as tomorrow is payday I'm spending the evening working on our new monthly budget. With a glass of wine, naturally... 3 points!

Kola xx

XSpender

Oh eck! After all my plans to avoid a takeaway tonight I was too tired to cook after our busy weekend away and allowed myself to be persuaded to get one ny my DH so £13 spent:( I have a total of £3.82 to spend between now and next Sunday if I am to get control of my budget again. I need dog food so I am gonna be a bit over.

We are only 2 adults and a toddler for Christmas dinner (1 veggie) and DHs parents will be joining us for tea then it's off to my DB for Boxing day so we have decided that we are just going to have a chicken/veggie pretendy chicken 'Sunday' dinner and a small tea on the day itself and not buy in a load of carp we don't eat as we have in previous years. I already have the meat and veggie main, christmas pud and rum sauce and a tin of chocs so not much to get in.

PennyGrabber

I've got chocs, stuffing, stuff for cakes for Christmas. My mum is bringing crackers and a pud. I need to get the turkey (no space in freezer yet) and veg, plus things like pigs in blankets and other little bits that make the meal different from any other roast. I'm really looking forward to the day itself, as I have my children this year. Well, until late afternoon, when ex picks them up. I'll then be getting trolleyed for the rest of the night otherwise I shall just pine.

Am still really pleased with my spend of 23p today - I think it's the first time ever i've gone in for one thing and come out with one thing!! Hoping for a nsd tomorrow, as don't need anything, so i shall stay away from the shops. Aim to stay away tues and weds as well, but may need milk and bread by thurs (1st day of new budget so will be able to afford it then!!!).

PG x