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

she_who_can_not_cook

went to aldi/iceland this morning(walked passed the reduced just because the lady had not done them yet)but it was chicken breast lots of them and was to go to lidl but got too wet lol may still go now bacon and beans are calling

flubberyzing

I have just totted up some receipts for the past 2 weeks and unfortunately have come in over budget. Grrr.

Knew I would though, as made a couple of unnecessary impulse purchases during the month. But it's Christmas! I think you are allowed to at Christmas!

forever_saving

I am declaring £415.23 for December as i have no plans to go shopping until January. Pleased that i was under budget. My new month starts 1st January.
Well done to everyone else. See you over on January board.
Thankyou to all who run this board. Happy new year to all :beer:.
FS

Billie-jo

Small spend today in Te$co plus have paid my savings back for some meat we have used and am declaring at £181.58 for Dec as wont be shopping again this year.
A very nice £98.42 under budget so thats great :j
Looking forwards to the new year and trying to reduce the spending even more.

happy_chick_3

Just popping in to report spends of £144.32 this month so far which is well under my £175 budget! Must remember that the way to beat this challenge is to stay with other people and eat their food instead of my own!

Will be back in January to attempt the challenge again in a 'normal' month! Happy new year everyone!

Souk08

Evening all, can I report spends of £62.31 against a target of £60. Not awful!

mummyyof5

Another £19 spent in L**ls today..eekk...did get 6 packs of the branston beans on offer so that was good xx

Coxy11

Evening everyone,

DH popped to T's today for a couple of bits. £11 odd to declare, which means I'm over for December by £15. Not too bad considering this included most of the Christmas food, although not alcohol which is from a different budget.

Going to try to reduce the budget for January to £475. This is quite radical as we have been overbudget for the last three months, but the name of the game is 'challenge' right? We now have a L!dl closeby, so will be giving this a try for at least two of the weeks shopping trips.

Will be checking this thread until 31st December to catch any budgets.

Coxy

she_who_can_not_cook

my last but one spend of the year iceland and aldi reduced i would have got some reduced milk just to freeze and use later but the freezer space meant i got reduced chicken and meat instead 3.50 for a pork roast H/P
loaf ( my fav aldi thick toastie) H/P and chicken legs and scones 30percent off

mrs-moneypenny

im going to declare £386.25 for december (helped by the £100 morrys saving stamps id got stashed and the double lot of £"5 off £40 spend vouchers i got by splitting my november and december shops i do for me and mil into two £40 to get double vouchers,

bought todays sun for the £% off next weeks shopping voucher but plan to shop frugally through january.

going to again go for £400 in jan but hope to be in credit at the end to have a small fund put by.

happy new year all