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

Dreamer80

First big-ish shop of the month, £89.56 spent. Will update signature.

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Rachel021967

I have spent £320. Thats almost half my budget gone. Will have to do better.

stardrops42

Spent another £78.87 this week which leaves £94.37 until pay day on the 21st. Should be able to do it easily:j

Shortie

Another spend update for me this evening of £36.42 which leaves us cutting it really close to the wire as my next month starts usually on 20th! However, we're about 20 mins each way, away from our nearest big supermarket, and we were going past it today as we went to my folks' house so we decided to sort out the shopping as we were going past

The idea was that we bought the rest of the stuff needed to get us to the next grocery pot month I've just realised we will run out of apples as I didn't buy enough of them, and we may run out of bananas (I bought loads including some really green ones to slowly ripen)

But, we do have lots of bread and mil in the freezer, and a lazy meal of breaded fish to have with home cooked chips if we get in the mood for a take out

We managed to get lots of reduced veg today. I have a nice amount of reduced toms so will cook up a pasta sauce tomorrow. I also got in the bargains a bag of carrots - I knew we had a few but they're handy to have in to bulk up mince-based dinners. I picked a bag up for 14p, to find when we got home we actually a few plus nearly a whole bag - whoops! Maybe a carrot based soup will be cooked up tomorrow too (but I have no corriander in so will have to have a Google for that one...

Other than a mini top up of fruit, REALLY, we should be absolutely fine for food now. However, I've said that many times before and proven myself wrong

Oh, and two more things to add - this shoip included bits needed (additions to what we already have in) to make food for a house warming next weekend, so that's quite cool. The other thing was that we used the shop and scan in Mr T and found it really pretty helpful to keep track of what we were spnding so we knew we were keeping in budget as we went along

craigywv

nsd for me but did make 35 saus rolls using up ys pastry and 3 pks ys saus felt great having a bit of freezer room until i had to squeeeeeeze the saus rolls back in!!!!!!!11 gave up and removed "the baby" which is nearing its 1st birthday in my freezer a massive ys leg of lamb i got last christmas eve for pennies in mr t cooked it last night for today and prob most of this week for curries and sandwiches. WARNING!!! for anyone buying leg of lamb intending to freeze it if its vacumn packed as mine was take it out of the packet and let the gas odours evaporate BEFORE freezing i didnt and the gas smell hung around during the first half hr of cooking!! i thought it was off so did a thorough check online and found its perfectly safe to be honest my ys leg of lamb did have a couple of days date left on it before i froze it, think it was more a case of mr t closing over the holidays thats why it was reduced, anyway because i didnt open it and let the gas escape it froze right through the meat and was hard to get rid of smell ................end result its sitting sliced up covered in gravy ready to be heated through and the rest put to the side for during the week. i was glad i checked online as it was getting binned around 8 o clock last night, now it smells great no odour or anything. sorry for the rant but i do rem not long ago a person posting regarding the same thing xxx

karenccs67

This weekends spending include £6.44 in Sainsburys, £5.50 in Iceland, £38.91 in Asda and £16.69 on a takeaway on Friday night, hubby came home from work late after seeing a cyclist being hit by a lorry.

GreenFairy

€10.51 spent over last couple of days...special offer on energy efficient lightbulbs (down to 69c each!) so got 6 of those. Plus veg, two tubs of taramasalata, a few ingredients for making chilli.

Also got two bottles of really fab mulled wine for €14 and a tenner off a sack of Royal Canin for the kitties, but they're not part of my GC

DanielleNic87

£12 added this morning at Lidl. Got 12 packs of mince. Should keep us going for a little while. Sig has already been update, but looks likes we will go over budget. Not too fussed as i wasn't planning on getting all that mince.

Just need to get some pizza toppings for our xmas day dinner and that's about it.

lottie3000

Another £7.23 at Mr M's mostly bread and milk but a couple of cream cakes sneaked their way into my basket!!

forever_saving

Nsd here today. I shouldn't need anything for a few days, fingers crossed. I don't know if anyone can help in answering my question. I put a carton of milk in the freezer yesterday morning, sell by date today. When i looked a few minutes ago it is a yellow colour. Is this normal or should i just throw it away? Thanks in advance.
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