December 2014 Grocery Challenge

miss_try_to_save

hi everyone today I had a spend of £6.26 in lid* bringing my amount left for month down to £319 as I round up or down on this occasion im rounding down my left over pork went further than I thought oh had sandwiches and I got some small baguettes for 19p each from lid and dd2 ds and myself had pork and pickle baguettes for lunch having a quick tea of fish chips and peas tonight dd2 having sweet corn as she cannot eat peas

Caterina

Floored by a cold, need a few groceries so stocked up on bits and pieces online with Mr T. £30 spent inc £1 delivery, sig updated. Probably will have to add a few quid for DH's lunch as I wasn't well enough to get up and make him a packed lunch.

bmma

spends today £3.99
total spends to date = £61.52/£100.00p x

kathrynha

£65 shop for me this week, so £135/350
Big shop but it does include a large gammon joint for Christmas day evening and I'm stocking up on basics a bit each week, so I don't have to buy as much over Christmas hols

scotmumof3

42p spend at asd* today
£32.06 spend at sainsbobs but I used £30 from my nectar card so only spent £2.06.
Total £2.48

Bobarella

Today I spent the grand total of 18p to buy a packet of basics fish fingers. I already had 50p in cash due to a refund on something I'd bought yesterday.
I made up dinner for us which was turning pork stew into a sort of shepards pie. I mixed the leftovers with gravy then topped it with leftover boiled potatoes & cheese. It was average at best. But no food waste & our tummies are full.

Bobarella

maria3104 wrote: »

Sadly it means I miss out on YS finds. I am currently in awe of Bobarellas results, the Queen of YS. We get no £ road kill either, but if you want a squirrel????

ha ha missed this earlier Maria sorry. I am just lucky that I live in London & have quite a lot of flexibility to shop. I read what you said Cranky and completely agree, I am fortunate that I either go when D'S is at school or when OH is at home.
I haven't tried Approved foods yet but lots of people seem to swear by them is it worth trying for you both?

peaceandfreedom

Just popping in quickly to say that after 2 grocery-NSDs, today we have spent £2.21 on some pasta for OH. DS was at work so didn't need tea, and DD2 and I had some HM spicy butternut squash soup.

There is another portion of soup in the fridge for lunch tomorrow and 4 in the freezer. Also made a loaf of bread and some coconut bites for healthy snacks, so all-in-all, a good day's work.

Need to get in some stuff tomorrow so will not be an NSD.

Frizzle_2

Sorry, as always it has taken a w[COLOR="rgb(139, 0, 0)"][/COLOR]hile to come over from November thread. I have just updated my signature to include all receipts in November!

We are going away for a week at Christmas so. Am going to drastically cut my budget to £150[/
For December as I want it to be a use up month! Never bed getting so low so we will see how we get on!!

Florenceem

I have been awol from mse for 4 months. I am still being thrifty/frugal - downright tight in my spending. My pension 4 weeks- Dec GC started on 1st - managed 5 NSD and only spent £9.90 so far.
Mr F was given some bits by a client who was moving house - 2 whole rabbits, 2 HM game pies and 2 jars of bottled strawberries. We never say no!