December 2013 Grocery Challenge

Florenceem

I have a £5 voucher for Al.. and a £5 voucher for Li.. - pays to complain. It was the actual store manager in Al.. who made the mistake with my shopping money!

Fru-gal_2

My first post!

Can I please join. I have been doing the grocery challenge as a lurker since october after our shopping spends we're going up each month. Blew the budget in October (330/240) so increased to 300 in November and we should just about come under that. Can I try280for December please.

BlueMoo

First spend of December (month start 22nd Nov) yesterday.

A massive £53.90 spent out of £105 budget.

I did stick to my list, but picked up some great YS meat, so OK with my spend.
Bought enough vegetables to last the month as well.

Like most people here, don't think I could stick to my budget without YS, so when it's there, I take it.

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Fillet steak with either mash or HM chips on the menu tonight. Excited!


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Hi Fru-gal :wave:

I have found this forum a great help, and even came in under budget last month - which I definitely couldn't have done without the GC. Before I just would have spent it.

craigywv

need milk! didn't want to spend anything today, have loads of powdered milk but need real stuff for a recipe. will walk in straight to milk and out again not look at ANYTHING else...............ooooooooooooooooh I hate that xxxxx

wilf55

Hello
I really want to join 5 adults ( and also cook for my other dd and bf 4-5 times per week) and 2 dogs in the household i get paid on thursday so my december challenge will start then i am going to give myself for all of us £80 per week which will be difficult especially as i dont have many staples in the cupboards at the moment so im in for £320 wish me luck cos im going to need it especially as im going to use it to do xmas food shopping too

thanks

Nelly11

Hi All *waves*
I did quite well on the November Challenge but I'm going to add an extra 100.00 to my total as we have lots of people visiting over Christmas. so my target for December will be.......Drum Roll........225.00

Good luck out there everyone x

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Fru-gal wrote: »

My first post!

Can I please join. I have been doing the grocery challenge as a lurker since october after our shopping spends we're going up each month. Blew the budget in October (330/240) so increased to 300 in November and we should just about come under that. Can I try280for December please.

Welcome to the thread fru-gal. I just came back to this challenge last month and already feel more in control of the spends. Best of luck.

meg72

shiningfaery wrote: »

Meg can I get the recipe for your steak and mushroom parcels please

Its not a recipe as such I just put a steak on a big square of foil and top with sliced onion and mushrooms a sprinkle of garlic powder and a couple of sprays frylight. wrap it up as a parcel and bake it the Halogen for about 20 to 30 mins (depends how thin I have cut the steak) You can add different toppings , I have done these with sliced potato, onion and celery, Pork steak with apple and sweetcorn. I like doing this as can put a couple of baked potatoes in with the parcel at the same time. Have one with the steak and have the other for lunch next day.

joedenise

Have had first spend of December grocery budget. Spent £5 in the market on fruit and veg; £3.74 in Ald! and £11 in Mr Ts - which included 2 chickens for £6 which wasn't on my list but such a bargain and I'm sure I'll use it during December and/or January. So a total spend of £19.74; the additional £10 showing in my total is a £10 carry forward from the huge amount of steak I got at a bargainous price last month; 3 more months of £10 (Jan-Mar) to cover the original £50 cost.

Denise

shiningfaery

thanks meg sounds yummy. will give the pork one a go first as we r having pork steaks soon.