December 2012 Grocery Challenge!!!!! REALLLY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Rowan9

First shop of the month £10.
I've been trying to empty our freezer for aaaages so am now down to some odd things and those little frozen tubs that you don't label because you think you'll remember! There are still a couple of portions of cooked chicken breast and some yorks so willl have a couple of 'roast dinners' yum yum.
Good luck this month folks. Off to read back through the thread.
W

Make-it-3

We're off and rolling. Bread and pasta purchased today and mistakenly went to the supermarket just before lunch so a sneaky packet of crisps too.

£3.88/£120.

larlie1983

Please can you put me down for £250 for December (1st-31st). I smashed my target in November but i'm not sure if that was just a fluke, so I don't want to reduce my target by too much and be disappointed on the 1st Jan.

nicolula87

Well big big spends for us all round in the first week of our challenge! Spent 70.63 last night, although included a lot of non grocery items - windscreen wash, batteries, car scraper etc etc. Then £20 at the market this morning on meat - got 4lb chicken breast, 7lb mince beef and an offcut of pork (for free because he was about to pack up for the day!). So taking total spend way over what it should be at this point, but I think I can keep it to £50 a week for the rest of the month which will be fine and keep us under our budget!

liz-paul

Thanks Angela & Suffolk lass. The capacitor things were only a few £'s each and OH is pretty handy (is an engineer of some sort!!! Only been with hom 12 yrs, still not sure lol) so I'm holding out hope. It was actually that whitegoods website where he got the idea for the capacitators from so it's good to hear that site being recommended

In other news I spent £110 :eek::eek::eek: in Tesco!!!! I deffo spend more instore than I do online..... But I got some presents, made a food donation, bought some xmas stuff & some treats & bought some stuff for the school food/gift appeal..... 20% of budget gone on first day

Billie-jo

Just catching up with this month so far. My Dec starts today and due to DS buying the newspaper it has been a NSD and so will tomorrow - so off to a good start. No doubt that if I had gone I would have brought some other items needed or not!
Have only increased the budget by £20 for Christmas so am not sure how this will go but will give it a try anyway.

welshdreamer71

My first spends of Dec challenge £77 on home delivery from Mr T ... I do the prepaid delivery which works out as quite a family saver especially as they give u free delivery on Tesco direct all of Dec aslong as u spend over a tenner bargain ! Also a little spend in butcher £8 so £85 .... Wow its freezing in little old Wales tonight x

VickyV

Well, December week 2 shop done and thanks to the vouchers in the paper for Aldi we spent £28.65 on food, laundry liquid and toiletries in there (once I take off the 2 boxes of chocolates for £2.50 which will go in the Christmas present bag!) and £5.94 on fruit and veg in the friendly but slightly overpriced local greengrocer's! Got extra milk, frozen peas and bread flour still to buy but I reckon I can pull it in for £40 total for the week . Meat's all in the freezer so it leaves me £130 for fruit and veg and bits and bobs for the rest of the month! Do-able I think.

This challenge is great for keeping me focussed, Thanks!

Vicky
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Bluegreen143

Hello everyone! Hope your Decembers are going well. I have been very busy the last couple of days - took Thursday and Friday off work to get my Christmas shopping done and I'm pleased to say that I've bought every present and made all of my jam/chutney and even started wrapping things!

Today is my first day of December and no spends so far. OH is getting a takeaway and I'm out for dinner but this is both out of our own money.

Made a lovely dinner last night - chicken satay with salad, roasted veg and pittas:

karenccs67

I like your thinking Meg72, especially as the poor delivery driver will be carrying 48 pints of milk LOL.