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

pamsdish

Hi Everyone
reporting total disaster in December, Hope to do better next year !!!
Lost totals in the Christmas madness.

NickJW

Well done everyone for either coming on target, or doing their best to track and minimize their spends!

Going out tonight and won't have any spends tomorrow because I have everything in (and don't plan to leave my bed, if it ends up being a good evening! ).

Final spend of 55p today brings my total to a respectable £102.34/£135 - my lowest spend of the year :T

GreenFairy

Haven't been online much over the last couple of weeks. Had a sit down today and went over my receipts. Just under €9 over budget, which is entirely down to an unexpected splurge the day before Xmas eve. Still, not bad given the number of people I ended up cooking for over the month. Back down to more sensible levels for January

Hope everyone had a lovely holiday and happy new year!

malamay

I've just totalled everything up following my last grocery trip of 2012 and am please to report we were £40.30 under budget! And I've bought loads of reduced goodies to go in the freezer, so hopefully we will have a cheap January! :beer:

Bluegreen143

OH went to the Mr M twice yesterday:

Small loaf 75p
Sausages £1.69
Mushrooms £1
Lorne sausage x2 £2
Tomatoes 75p
Milk 89p
Orange juice £1
Cranberry juice £1
M Beans x2 78p
Potato scones x2 £1.20
Bacon £2.55
M Mayo 98p
Wraps £1
Coke x2 £2

£17.59 total, bringing me to £253.96, which is a wee bit over budget he did need to go shopping as we were making a cooked breakfast for a couple of houseguests this morning, but he bought too much meat (extra stashed in the freezer), and I would have bought value mushrooms, wraps and mayonnaise plus only one tin of beans, so I reckon I could have maybe squeezed under if I'd gone. Oh well - see you in January!

Baileys_Babe

Baileys_Babe wrote: »

Friday night I discovered the receipts and tallied up our spends £450 + £50 (butchers) + £30 (festival) = £530 this also includes money spent on food gifts and ingredients for making gifts... Think I need to go and buy milk tomorrow so I will allow myself £10 for the weeks milk plus anything else we might need....
Declaring £540/£620

I've just rechecked my adding up of receipts and it came to £430, £20 less spent, I also spent £7 on milk and some YS's instead of the budgeted £10.

Final update for December 2012 budget £517 £103 under budget :j

Dreamer80

Hi,

A bit late but the final total for December was £459.22 so under budget

On to the January challenge!

D80