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

Nicky_Noo_Na

Nipped to quality save last night while in town and annoyingly spent £10.14:eek:

It was all stuff that was cheaper there than in supermarkets but was silly stuff like toilet roll, face wash and soap - how it all adds up! Need to be really good for the next two weeks now.........

jumblejack

Hope all are having a great day.

Leftover HM chicken soup for dinner, stretched out with lentils.

Leftover shepherds pie for tea but its gonna be mixed into a shortcrust pie as there's not enough leftover for a family meal

Crochet all day in between tasks is the plan for the rest of the day.

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liz-paul

Bakers - can you use out of date yeast or will it no longer 'work'?
TIA

VickyV

liz-paul wrote: »

Bakers - can you use out of date yeast or will it no longer 'work'?
TIA

Hi Liz-Paul,

If it's fresh yeast, as long as it hasn't started to smell really bad it's fine (you may need to scrape the white 'bloom' off. I used some that was a good month over the date the other week and it was perfect.

If it's dried, mix it with warm (blood temp) water and leave for ten minutes or so. If it's dead then it won't froth up - I've sometines left it in a warm place for a little longer and it's frothed. Then just add when you would add the water.

Good luck!

Make-it-3

My final posting of the year, to update with top-up shops and a few pre-Xmas treats (pud and mulled wine) as I won't be here to enjoy those.

So my December total is £100.39/£120 - yes nearly £20 under so quite happy there.

Merry Christmas everyone - I'll be joining the January thread a little late as I'm not back in the country till 10th.

liz-paul

Thanks vickyv - its dried yeast so I'll have a go and see if it froths!

RevolvingDoor

I have spent about £265 so far which takes me up to Christmas Eve. I have to do another order online now as I think the slots are going to be booked up. I'm hoping to only spend about £50 for the rest of the month.

bossymoo

Well I wrapped up my December budget on Monday, but I think I'll have a Christmas budget, then a smaller january one. Just to keep things in the right year.

So I'll have £100 for the rest of this month, and £150 from 1st to 18th jan. I've spent £20 of my Christmas budget. Mostly on tat. Lol.

RevolvingDoor

Oops, I spent £350 this month which is less than the £400 I had budgeted but I had hoped for £300.

I will take part in the January challenge and see if I can do better next year.:)

Shortie

bossymoo wrote: »

Well I wrapped up my December budget on Monday, but I think I'll have a Christmas budget, then a smaller january one. Just to keep things in the right year.

So I'll have £100 for the rest of this month, and £150 from 1st to 18th jan. I've spent £20 of my Christmas budget. Mostly on tat. Lol.

OOoohh now I like that way of thinking... You see, after a very good point my Meg72, I was going to eeeek the next grocery month to the end of this week (I've been paid early and the end of the week would have been my normal pay day) but we suddenly have a childfree evening and that makes a perfect opportunity to do a last shop before Christmas (most of the Chrimbo veg I can pick from the garden this year :j) and for that we only need carrots and frozen peas. What an exciting life we lead eh :rotfl::rotfl:

And I was trying to work out out max budget for today, and after that you've suggested, it's simples.. £80 to last the rest of this month, £120 for the 3 weeks of next... £80 would be the max -any remainders would roll over to the next month.

Or as Mr Shortie just piped up with - 'if we can save some of that budget, there might be some really good reductions on meat on Christmas Eve. I can nip down and see what I can pick up'. You go Mr Shortie :beer::rotfl:

Will post the damage to the new budget when I get back later