December 2013 Grocery Challenge

Ladyluck1

Oh no Christmas!
Can I be put down for £120 please

Moneysavingmomma

This will be my first month joining in so unsure of how much to put really. Need to keep it as low as possible so will aim for £300 for the month, there's 7 of us - 10 including pets!!

Shortie

First shop done at £53.10. A bit stressed by that but we do have stuff in the freezer, and experience tells me that more often than not we spend more at the beginning of the month and less towards the end. I recon it's because we are restocking at the beginning of the month and batch cooking, and then we're using up the previously cooked and frozen batch cooked meals towards the end of the month?

mooomin

£6.75 spent in Aldi last night, leaving £241.30 in my budget with four weeks till payday. It's scary that I've spent nearly £30 this week and still haven't done a "proper" shop :eek:

Soworried

Soworried wrote: »

I'm going to count my loose coin jars and use my nectar points on top of my normal £280 budget. I have £24 in points and around £70 in the jars at an estimated guess

I'll also add whatever I have saved from this months, I'm trying desperately not to spend it all

I have counted my jars this morning. £86.04 in total :j More than I thought I had

My budget for December will now be £366 + My nectar points= £388.50 as you can only spend them in £2.50s.

Can I be put down for that please? £388.50 :j I'm so pleased that I have that much

cowboymum

Hello! Haven't done this challenge for a while and lost track of how much I was spending. Currently doing NSK's NOvember challenge and not doing particularly well! Realised that I spend quite a lot on food and I'd like to get this down a little. I was doing some monthly cooking (from once a month meals website) and i'd like to get back into doing this.

Last months food budget was £400, and I think I have about £12 left for this week!!!! I need to put it up this month as it is Christmas and then start reducing it from January.

So it is £500 - this is for 2 adults, 2 DS (11 and 7), plus a lot of childminded children! Hopefully I'll be well under this, but also have some for Christmas food and alcohol!

DebtFree2012

Although my month's not officially started I want to get into recording again so last night I spent £10.79 in Aldi for mid week top up.
2 bags lettuce, salad cream, 2 packs crumpets, pack yogs, malt loaf, milk * 2 4 pints, grapes, bread, bananas and tomatoes. This will see us over until Sunday.
I will shop for next week on Sunday and that will be my start of the month. I'm busy menu planning again - quite enjoy it actually.

tessie_bear

made some mince pies earlier and thought next time i will have some christmas music playing as always enjoy that....got 25kg sack of spuds today for £6 so hopefully they will still be going at christmas for mash and roasties

take care tess

meg72

tessie_bear wrote: »

made some mince pies earlier and thought next time i will have some christmas music playing as always enjoy that....got 25kg sack of spuds today for £6 so hopefully they will still be going at christmas for mash and roasties

take care tess

Great price for your potatoes, cant understand why they are so expensive in the supermarkets, I know last year was a bad harvest but think this year has been quite good. Think its just profiteering by the supermarkets, i.e.what goes up stays up.
I am old enough to remember when the supermarket was a novelty not the norm, we had butchers, bakers ,greengrocers and markets and if there was a glut of something you got the benefit.

BlueMoo

Right, I am finally into the December budget now.

Declared over on the Nov thread at £10 below budget.

This will be carried through into December.
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Hopefully NSD for me, although spendy weekend coming up.
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First shop should be on Monday though I have no bread or eggs, but will try and hold out.