December 2011 - Grocery Challenge

sproggi

Managed a NSD today.

Tea today is the chicken and carrots that got evicted from the freezer yesterday,
along with a selection of other fresh and frozen veg yet to be finalised.
Tomorrow will be L/O chicken morphed into something (maybe chicken pasta).

Sproggi

dannie

Hi,

NSD today although Thursday should mean a few groceries purchased.
I've been reading about how some of you wonder what to include in this challenge. I am unsure whether to include using vouchers from somebody for groceries?

mrs-moneypenny

forgot to tally up at the end of november an dec isnt going to have a budget i think ill start again in january. on the plus side the cupboards are full to bursting so jan feb should be lean shops

mummyjane

Dh insisted on visiting A@@a today, bought lots of extra bits that should make the weekend a bit easier. Thankfully he insisted on paying out of his money - Finally he is starting to understand that we have a food budget that we need to try and stick to! So a NSD for me today

[Deleted User]

Final shop before christmas today. Declaring at £173.76/£150. Ooops:eek:. Still it could have been alot worse if I wasn't on this challenge - I am blaming christmas too!!

Will defo get back on track in Jan. We get paid early for Christmas but will set aside my usual budget to use in Jan. Please put me down for £130 in Jan 2012. Thank you. Al x

adysmum

Okay, so I've been through the freezers and managed to do a meal plan up to and including the 1st :j. That should mean just fresh bits for over the holidays although with the wee man off nursery and OH off work might need to subsidise the lunches a wee bit. So still have £298 left in the december budget with hopefully very little to spend. But with us using £100pw for everything barring bills, can see us popping to the sales and spending some :mad:

Dee500

Hello all

Have been trying so hard to stay on track but v hard with little one in tow when shopping

Mr T today 37.25 - hoping that will be it for this week or at least til Friday!!

That brings my total so far to 146.95 - hoping to still make it on target - must finish meal plan for this week

freakyogre

£1.75 in Sainsbury's on bread rolls, tuna and custard.

I also bought a strudel and custard which I took to my dad and stepmum's for dinner, but I won't count that. My dad made beef stew and dumplings which was delicious He gave me some to bring home as well as huge slice of quiche he'd made and 2 x pork chops as he's defrosting their freezer.

I may have to adjust my meal plan slightly this week

meanmarie

Total spent now stands at €139.93, should be ok as freezer is full, we will be away for 4 days and probably eating out some of the time next week.

Marie

666paw

Another spend Saturday of 11.35 as o/h decided he fancied some goodies and yesterday decided that didn't want to eat anything that we had but wanted a chinese so that was 13.??. Total of 25.35 spent bringing my December total to 247.88 just under my budget.

Please could you put me down for 250 again for January, my month starts on the 19th, today.

Thanks everyone.

666