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

craigywv

went to mr t to get yeast...............came back 18.05 worse off it was awful ransacked the bakery aisle again have enough rubbish to feed family of 12 everyday for a month!!! but i did get a bag of spuds as well! away to update sig

Rowan9

Another £10 for me so am on about £25. Bigger shop coming up although I doubled up my t4sco vouchers and have £40 tokens for frozen food hurrah. Need to buy the stuff this weekend.
Good luck all.

angelatgraceland

MoonJelly wrote: »

I hope I don't get stoned but I CAN'T do the grocery challenge for December. Hubby is coming back from overseas and I will be spending on goodies such as a duck for Christmas Day. We have a birthday and a wedding anniversary. We also have a family reunion to celebrate a wedding and baby in the family and we are suppose to bring something to the event.
I will try to keep the budget around £300 but don't think I can do it for less.
Sorry, I feel like such a wimp...:p

I certainly wouldn't worry about it! Just go careful and write down what you spend then you can watch yourself as you go along! It will keep you on track without depriving you. It is the "accountability" factor which helps I believe-whether only on paper or on here as well. The exercise of writing it down is your reminder to keep on track. Never mind what the totals are within reason-at least that way you won't look back at December wondering where your money went!

Went to Morrisons yesterday and for the first time I tried their value bread. Now I normally hate the stuff from all of the other shops. This however-was perfect!

angelatgraceland

nicolula87 wrote: »

No grocery spends since Friday so that's good as a lot was spent last week! My month is til the 25th so 3 weeks to go with a good amount of money left. Next couple of weeks will be difficult as getting a new kitchen fitted, so going to have to buy and cook lots of food this weekend ready for next week, and prob will end up with microwave meals a few days which might up the spending. Oh well, we are angling for invites to various family members for dinner over the next couple of weeks! Hopefully will all be finished before Christmas, with Christmas dinner to cook for 8!

Have you got a slowcooker? A steamer? These would compliment your microwave and stop you living on readymeals!

I notice Lidl have got Bread flour for 59p so it's only a few pece more than the ordinary plain flour and more versatile. I bought 2 packets.
Just used up some of last nights cabbage and carrots with some bacon offcuts and some smash with grated cheese then panfiried the smash. A tasty change to the norm. Yesterday we had sausages and real mash with cabbage and carrots.

Bluegreen143

Hello! Been super busy the last couple of days. OH bought coke and salad, he guesstimated a spend of £4 (didn't keep the receipt). Will update sig accordingly. This month not going too well at the moment!

meg72

craigywv wrote: »

went to mr t to get yeast...............came back 18.05 worse off it was awful ransacked the bakery aisle again have enough rubbish to feed family of 12 everyday for a month!!! but i did get a bag of spuds as well! away to update sig

This made me giggle. I just so do this, cant get used to being only ME. and would so love to be feeding a family. Oh well could be worse I could be buying booze or drugs.

VickyV

Spent £3.38 on icing sugar and ready roll icing but since half of it will be used on decorating cakes for christmas, I'm only counting £1.69 as groceries - it's for our christmas cake! Yum! x :j

Edit: OH informs me he spent £1.89 on a ready meal as we ran out of bread for sandwiches (due to a certain party losing the Aldi vouchers last night and coming away disgraced and empty handed!)

nicolula87

angelatgraceland wrote: »

Have you got a slowcooker? A steamer? These would compliment your microwave and stop you living on readymeals!

We do! I have started preparing today, so far cooked 3 portions of curry and 5 of chilli. Also have stewing steak ready to make stew and a side of salmon to make fish pie so should have most of it covered!

Then jacket pots in the microwave and all good!

Had massive spends today but havent figured out the grocery section yet! Decided to make lots of personalised chocolate slabs for xmas pressies so spent a fortune on choc but should come to less than £5 per person and the first two are looking good!

Will add spends when I figure how much is from grocery budget and how much from Christmas budget!

CRANKY40

I'm finding that I'm eating better by doing the grocery challenge. I've bought and cooked proper food and haven't bought any junk. I usually make my own fairy cakes for my son, but "treats" were starting to appear in the trolley for me. That's stopped thankfully and long may it last.

pamsdish

Still having N.S.Ds ,going to my friends 15th,for 3 weeks over Christmas and New year, I will be doing most of the shopping and all the cooking as she works Full time, so will be spending then .