December 2013 Grocery Challenge

Tom2023

In today's Daily Mail....

Forget £60 turkey, try a £5 pig's head! Chef's 'mulled swine' could be answer for hard-up families as price of Christmas dinner soars

Not for the squimish :rotfl:

Billie-jo

Still on the Nov thread but can I set a normal budget of £250.00 please for Dec. I have tried to work on £220 for a 4 week month and £250 for a 5 week one most of the year and should be able to do as normal.
This should be enough as already have the prawns for starters, the turkey, sausage meat, mincemeat, Christmas pudding and the obligatory sweets in. I think most of us are guilty of buying more than we need for Christmas although I did make a conscious effort to improve last year.

Good luck everyone on the last month of 2013 lets see how well we all do.

evuka

Can you put me down for £120 again? Plus I will use up my nectarpoints for Christmas and I'm going to use this amount to start stocking up my cupboard again.
I start on 1, Dec.

[Deleted User]

Hi Coxy , can you put me down for £25 per week again please. My December challenge will start on Monday.

mooomin

Today I went to Morrisons and spent £59.36, although I used my £54 of Savers Stamps so only paid £5.36

I got lots of things which will help us to be well-stocked over winter such as pasta, rice and stock cubes, but it was also nice to be able to treat myself to some chocolate things too I also bought myself some new pillows which I was badly in need of, but as I only spent £5 I don't mind.

Faete

In a further attempt to get my spending under check and myself organised I was looking at diaries for 2014. I found a lovely one in Smiths that gave a week's view on one page, space for a meal plan and a tear-off shopping list. It was lovely - then I looked at the price - £13.49! :eek:

B*gger that! It may not be pretty but I've sorted out a note book and done the same thing. Divided the page into three columns (day, meal and shopping) and into seven rows (days of the week). Planned the meals - wrote a corresponding list of ingredients not in my cupboard/freezer - and tore off the third column as a shopping list.

£13.49 saved and some organisation injected into my chaos. :cool:

Fae xx

PS: Ding! is something from the freezer that will be microwaved
And the dates are a day out - I've not quite escaped chaos!

tessie_bear

meg so true about gluts/seasonal stuff you would think a bargain would be passed on...sometimes in small green grocers/market stall but not much

we have been to the farm shop and got some eggs...including bantam eggs which are nice poached im told as they have a lot of egg in a ratio to white....will be keen to try

roated a huge chicken for tea make a quiche and some cornish pasties so a good day

take care tess

tessie_bear

moomin have you a cheeky recipe for that soup you could share ? thankyou
tessa

Islandmaid

Hi all,

November not finished for me, but can you put me up for £300 for December, an extra £50 for xmas goodies:D

Booze will be separate.

This thread keeps me on the straight n narrow - so big thanks to all x

Sweetie83

Please can you put me down for £240

Thanks so much )

Have a great Christmas everyone:beer: