December 2013 Grocery Challenge

meg72

Hi Coxy nice to see you back, great news on DH job, happy new year to you too, hope its a fab one. Please let us know if theres any news of Zippy.

mooomin

I'm well in to my budget for January with 20 days to go until payday :eek: As I'm planning on reducing my budget to £200 (from £250 in November) I'm thinking about just taking that cash out and shopping using cash only for food.

I normally like to use a credit card so I can earn extra Clubcard points, but I don't want to forget to transfer money or overspend by not keeping careful track.

What does everyone else do?

angelatgraceland

I've been AWOL from here for weeks but I have been keeping track! Just need to add on a couple of receipts. I didn't allow extra for Christmas so will have gone over a little.

Edit-not gone over!!! Still under £50 pw for three adults and 3 pets! I also fed 10 on Christmas Day!:j:j:j:j:j

angelatgraceland

mooomin wrote: »

I'm well in to my budget for January with 20 days to go until payday :eek: As I'm planning on reducing my budget to £200 (from £250 in November) I'm thinking about just taking that cash out and shopping using cash only for food.

I normally like to use a credit card so I can earn extra Clubcard points, but I don't want to forget to transfer money or overspend by not keeping careful track.

What does everyone else do?

I've set up Direct debit to pay mine off in full each month. They are useful if used very carefully. Knowing it will be paid in full stops you overspending too as you know it will all come out of the bank to pay it off soon!

meg72

mooomin wrote: »

I'm well in to my budget for January with 20 days to go until payday :eek: As I'm planning on reducing my budget to £200 (from £250 in November) I'm thinking about just taking that cash out and shopping using cash only for food.

I normally like to use a credit card so I can earn extra Clubcard points, but I don't want to forget to transfer money or overspend by not keeping careful track.

What does everyone else do?

Its cash everytime for me, in a separate purse, its so easy to keep track of. as whats in the purse is whats left and easy to see if its going down too quickly, When I used my card I was forever forgetting a spend or 2 or 3 so never really knew where I was, now I know to the 1p what I have spent.

CherryPie

Meal planning all the way in January! Love bringing in a new year, always feels so full of hope for what's to come!


I'll go for £100 please, inc all food and cleaning stuff etc. If I buy it from the supermarket, it's included in the budget!


Here's to a fab & frugal January!

laura_hoggle

K9sandFelines wrote: »

There were some in ours last time I was in, if you'd still like one. I could send it to you.

Sorry this is very belated, I haven't been on here since my last post! Thanks for the offer but I have managed to order one from Asda for £40 (hopefully with cashback too, so a better deal!)

angelatgraceland

Ready to declare at £2,617.28-so I am under budget! Please set me once again at £3000 annual. I will include pet food but not cleaning.:D

laura_hoggle

Hi everyone! Hope you have all had a lovely Christmas!

This is my first time on here in just over a week, and am here to declare my final December spends as January starts today for us....

Total GC spend for December is £157.93, from a budget of £210!!!! It helped that the last 6 days we have been stayed at both sets of parents parents, but we did contribute food/drink/coupons/vouchers/lifts to the shops to what we consumed, that was all from the budget though. So pleased!! We had decided to treat my parents to a takeaway tomorrow night, so the money that we saved will pay for that, with hopefully some left over!

K9sandFelines

laura_hoggle wrote: »

Sorry this is very belated, I haven't been on here since my last post! Thanks for the offer but I have managed to order one from Asda for £40 (hopefully with cashback too, so a better deal!)

No worries. Glad you got one.
I've updated my sig with £39.20, £4.15 and £1.00 odd this morning. I will update the odd as soon as I double check ... I am here til 1st but don't get paid for a bit yet. I'm a few quid over at the mo.