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

mossy

tessie_bear wrote: »

i think we are set for christmas and i am looking for ward to scoring a few christmas eve bargains...anyone else going looking ??

take care tess

Toying with it but might just give up the idea of bargains and enjoy chilling out with family at home!!

XSpender

£12.58 spent out of the Christmas budget and a scary £69.29 out of the food budget. A lot of ready meals and some snacks I don't normally buy in this figure as DH and I are both away this week and having some long travel days. Free hotel meal and breakfast for me tonight and the morning so will fill up and try and avoid buying lunch.

I have 2 vouchers totalling £15 to use and don't need that much more for the festive period so will fill up the wine rack and fill the freezer with meat and we need some basics too. My plan is to drop a brand on a lot of stuff as DH had discovered value tastes the same a lot of the time and I had been less frugal than I have been in the
past and had stopped buying this range.

VickyV

Needed some fruit and peppers (we only have 1 green - we ALWAYS have loads of peppers in) and gave in to the chestnuts, as they'll go in the stuffing and make a lovely creamy sprout, bacon and chestnut soup! so £4.75 to add. Ordered my christmas steaks today and, since I had originally planned to pick them up and pay on christmas eve but now can't, They will come out of January's pot . I expect we'll need milk again at the weekend but other than that, no more spending until January, nearly!
xx

karenccs67

Only spent £43 pounds this weekend between Asda & Iceland, going to do a shop on Saturday for the fresh veg, fruit & cream. Ive got my mum and nan here until New Year and unfortunately my nans sister died on Sunday, so a bit of a sad time for us at the moment.

jumblejack

Hope you've all had a nice day.

We had whoopsied pork mince with a crab apple jelly gravy, roast tattles and whoopsied Savoy cabbage for tea.

Finally finished my first crocheted blanket. Whoopee!!!!

Another no spend day. I went to buy a storage box from argos but there was none in stock. Even though I was on the Tesco car park I resisted the urge to go in as I don't need anything. Yay.

meg72

VickyV wrote: »

Needed some fruit and peppers (we only have 1 green - we ALWAYS have loads of peppers in) and gave in to the chestnuts, as they'll go in the stuffing and make a lovely creamy sprout, bacon and chestnut soup! so £4.75 to add. Ordered my christmas steaks today and, since I had originally planned to pick them up and pay on christmas eve but now can't, They will come out of January's pot . I expect we'll need milk again at the weekend but other than that, no more spending until January, nearly!
xx

Where did you get your chestnuts from please, my local Asda dont have them and as I am feeling really rough dont want to trail round looking.

she_who_can_not_cook

liz-paul wrote: »

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

i have and it does not rise as much

NickJW

Sorry for your loss karenccs67

Looking through my wallet I have the following spends to report

45p today in the corner shop
£3 in Mr S on 14th Dec
£1.90 in Mr S on 17th Dec
£2.17 in Mr W on 17th Dec
£2.35 in Mr S on 18th Dec

= £9.87 in total

So doing okay at £83.57..........so far this month!

Bluegreen143

karenccs67 wrote: »

Only spent £43 pounds this weekend between Asda & Iceland, going to do a shop on Saturday for the fresh veg, fruit & cream. Ive got my mum and nan here until New Year and unfortunately my nans sister died on Sunday, so a bit of a sad time for us at the moment.

Sorry for your loss

Spend some money today on milk, butter, flour and mangoes. Mangoes for chutney for Christmas hampers, so don't count. Flour and butter is for mince pies so not sure what budget that should come under. Will report back tomorrow once I've decided, had a bit of a hectic day so just having a wee sit down having assembled most of my hampers

MrsCD

Sorry to hear about your nan's sister - karenccs67

I'm planning to shop for veggies and chilled foods on Friday morning - very early! I'm at work on Saturday and I'm not even thinking about shops until well after Christmas - they will be :eek::eek::eek::eek: so I'm keeping well away They will open again next week I'm sure, so as long as we don't run out of milk on Christmas Day, and even if we do, we'll be fine.