December 2011 - Grocery Challenge

Doom_and_Gloom

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

Budget - £110
Spent - £95.01
Left - £14.99. + £5.59 catalina (£20.58)

Should have updated earlier but will add all shops that were December now.
Mr S spend - £9.27 (£3.68 cash + £5.59 catalina used)
Mr S spend - £3.45
Mr S spend - £5.40
Mr S spend - £8.25
Total = £20.78 + £5.59 catalina

Budget - £110
Spent - £115.79 + £5.59
Left - -£5.79.

Opps . Still saved £19.87 using coupons in just the above shops so it could have been a lot worse. (we saved a lot of money in December using coupons )

Sue14

Woo hoo, I've just added up the last spends for December, which was £2.08 in Mr T's, £11.04 in HB and £24 in I*eland, and we've made it with £2.06 to spare, so declaring at £197.94! I must admit I had a little scare when I found more receipts than I was expecting, but when I checked most of them had already been accounted for, and there were only these ones to add so it wasn't so bad, lol!:)

dannie

Hello everybody,

In the end, I just stayed within my set budget. My total spent was a little less than November. For December, there were a very few remaining items that can be used this month. Just one reduced 49p item took into account Christmas food spending. The total budget could have been slightly less but somebody offered to collect a few groceries for me on 30/12/11. I did not use any Christmas gift vouchers for purchases.

I am presently considering which "challenge" direction to take so do not know whether I'll join the Jan. 2012 grocery challenge. Thanks for including me in the December one.

TheThriftyScrumpers

Good morning folks,

Please can I declare at £332.29 for December

Many thanks to Helen and rosieben for all your hard work xx

Mortgagenewbie

Just to say that the £200.00 cash that i withdrew at the beginning of the month lasted us until 14th December and then i gave up after that! Perhaps december want the best month to start!! Still, making myself write this as even though i did appalingly, i find writing it down shames me into trying harder!

franby64

Hi

Just declaring at £478.32, £98.32 over which I can live with.
I think I need to start a food fund to raise about £100/£150 for next Xmas to stop me going over in December - will look into stamps or the Christmas clubs.

rachbc

I was slightly over for Dec by about £50 at around £300 (don't have my phone with my nos on with me)- however as we used less petrol as 11 days with no commute its all come in on budget overall. Plus having done a freezer inventory we have enough meat/ fish for 51 meals in (all bought on offer/ yellow sticker)

p-pincher

Hi everyone, im declaring £255 fro December, slightly over but i can live with that, hope everyone had a good Christmas and new year xx

Over to the January board now.

Fiasco55

I am declaring my total for Dec of £148.23 and over £50 under budget . I cut way back this year on the meals for my guests and went with lamb I already had in the freezer on the big day.

I think I am getting the hang of usin up what I already have in my meals I just need some more practise at setting an accurate budget.

See you all in January's thread.

angelatgraceland

Finally declaring for December spends. 256.09/400.64
Annual spend was 4314/5000.