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

RevolvingDoor

I realised I had worked out my figures wrongly as I had counted my first December week as the last week of November.:doh:

My first week for December is ordered now and I spent £75 in the end. I am still keeping my budget at £400 but I'm hoping to make it £300 instead by buying the basic ranges.:)

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First spend of month - £1.50 on BLT sandwich from M&S this morning, was out quite early to drop DM off at her massage therapist and didnt fancy going anywhere other than back to bed when I got home! :rotfl:

Also picked up some Candarel tabs as we are out - £1.10 on those, plus £3 ish on bread and a couple of doughnuts

Going to T's tomorrow for big shop - bits above were just to tide us over a day or so.

smelkel87

Can I rejoin for this month. Don't know what happened last month but didn't join and totally lost control of spending. Have got oh on board so hoping to spend no more than £200. ( couldn't make it bigger or red as using an iPad and it wouldn't let me)! Will be doing a stock take and meal plan this weekend as have lots in freezer. Oh yeah, my month starts on the 1st December. Good luck everyone xx

lemmings1986

hi can i join for december please.
i would like to aim for £80, £20 a week
cupboards and freezer are quite full so im only planning on buying bread,milk and fruit/veg and the odd bits
i break off for my holiday in less then 2 weeks and will be off for 3 weeks and then i will start my maternity leave and im planning on using everything in cupboards and freezer and making lots of meals from scratch
i have done a inventory of cupboards,just need to do freezer inventory and i have been making meal plans so im hoping we wont spend anywhere near that
my month started yesterday went to fruit shop earlier and spent 80p on some mushrooms im making pasta bake and garlic bread for tea
sorry for long post good luck all

Suffolk_lass

smelkel87 wrote: »

Can I rejoin for this month. Don't know what happened last month but didn't join and totally lost control of spending. Have got oh on board so hoping to spend no more than £200. ( couldn't make it bigger or red as using an iPad and it wouldn't let me)! Will be doing a stock take and meal plan this weekend as have lots in freezer. Oh yeah, my month starts on the 1st December. Good luck everyone xx

smelkel87 - welcome back :wave: - I've enlarged your target in red so that Coxy spots it. I'll be waiting until November ends because my target will be the remainder of my annual budget so I'll see you all later

HTH
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Bluegreen143

Hi everyone. I'm still in November as I do calender months but wanted to say hi and best of luck to the newbies

Think I will set my December budget to £250 (£200 + £50 for Christmas treats).

Shaving £10 off the normal shopping budget so that's good (gulp) - might be difficult as it's a five week month but I go to my mum's at Christmas for three days and OH dots about between his relatives and my mum's and there's always a takeaway that week for OH brother's birthday too. Because of all this I hope to get away with just doing 4 shops *fingers crossed*.

£50 should be plenty for treats as we don't host a Christmas meal, so just need to get crisps, mince pies and various other unhealthy snacks to keep OH happy lol.

I have vowed to stay off the diet Pep$i as I've been buying at least a bottle a day - usually two so I reckon about 50 quid a month (it's a pound from the vending machine at work) and I'm trying not to go into M&$ for lunch (as that's always a good fiver, usually more as I have zero willpower!) and take leftovers or sarnies for lunch!

My OH drinks tons of coke but keeps a small bottle which he fills up to take to work from the 2 litre bottle in the fridge. Or you can get decent deals on the multipacks of cans. Got to be cheaper than the vending machine if you can't kick the habit lol!

stardrops42

Spent £53.60 in total today between Aldi,Tesco, Wilkinsons and Iceland. Really pleased with that:D Just by checking the cupboards, meal planning and only buying what was on my list I've saved a fortune:j Thanks to everyone who helps to keep this challenge going.

Need2bthrifty

Just rounded up my November budget coming in just under, wayhay.

Because of the household supplies I need and the offers on in Lid! at the moment plus Christmas plus a 5 wk month - I'm upping my budget to £80.00 for December

A great chunk of that will probably go tomorrow as I've made up my list and decided to do a big shop with little top-ups later on in the month for fresh F&V, bread, milk etc and I really want to have more than 15 NSD's too......here goes :cool:

NickJW

Hello all.

I'm away next week so have declared November already and will start posting in December when I'm back. But please...can I ask a favour? Can you all hold back on posting so I don't spend a day catching up? (Haha - only joking - I like reading all the posts).

Would like to aim for £135 again because stocking up will be required, after driving down the freezer stocks.

VickyV

Hello again, just thought I'd post a little update!

Spent £5.34 on some (contraband) readymade mash, 9 loo rolls and 2x2 kitchen rolls yesterday. I've done my shop for the week today. Spent £13.16 on fruit and veg from the market, £4.25 on 12.5kg sack of spuds, £1.50 for some Gluten free bread (reduced from £2.99 :eek:) Also went to A1di to get some staples, including chocolate and cream - well they're staples in our house!

I'm still off the Pep$i, I just keep thinking "a bottle of pop or a pound and a refill of the water" and the pound wins every time! I tend to drink double if I buy big bottles and they seem to go flat too quickly so I'll just keep off it for a bit!

I'm happy with the spend so far, just need to keep the OH in check! Off for a large glass of wine and an early night now!
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