December 2014 Grocery Challenge

scotmumof3

£10.10 spend at tesc* today.
Can't believe whats happened in Glasgow today my heart and thoughts go out to everyone from the city

Bobarella

Scotsmum that is so sad you are right. Also saddened to read of an 85 year old man who lost control of his car in London and killed a baby and a young mum. So much sadness around.

Happygreen

banked another NSD today. Yesterday only paid for unavoidable petrol, but successfully avoided the shops. Tomorrow or maybe WEdnesday will pick up the roast and some more veg, all else should be in place!

scotmumof3

Bobarella wrote: »

Scotsmum that is so sad you are right. Also saddened to read of an 85 year old man who lost control of his car in London and killed a baby and a young mum. So much sadness around.

Oh my that is so sad too. Such a shame

Mrs_Cheshire

Spent £4.26 in Ald* today, getting the bits I forgot yesterday!

GettingOrganised

Well, today was the big Christmas shop day. £90 odd pounds in @ldi and £60 in tesc@. Only got fresh bread to buy on Christmas eve and then I'll have a small balance in the budget for a top up shop before the New Year.

I'll be very happy if I end close to the budget and hopefully with good fridge and freezer stocks to take into January. Looking forward to another MSE year!

Merry Christmas everyone

bmma

:money:well over budget-all food in for the rest of the month -plus 4 family members for christmas dinnerand a couple of bulk buys so not complaining - if I had set the budget higher I would peobably have gone over that as well :beer:
declaring early - my final December'sb udget week was 29th but as all food in declaring early and will now work on what January's budget will be x

lynnejk

joedenise wrote: »

... I will be topping up with those as well, things like spices.....


They have a limited range in A*di at only 49p atm

...have decided to use any leftover money from grocery budget to build a "bulk buy" pot for when I see good offers, particularly at the butchers


That's exactly how I run things - it does make like easier :rotfl:

Denise

scotmumof3 wrote: »

Can't believe whats happened in Glasgow today my heart and thoughts go out to everyone from the city

My heart goes out to the driver, those lost and injured and all the families involved. It seems particularly hard at this time of the year eh


I managed another NSD so over my December NSD target :j


Couple of bits to get tomorrow when I go to the bank
Lx


:xmassign:

Kerfuffle

Hi everybody,

Another spend to report, hopefully I've got everything I need to see me beyond the 26th (at least). Spent $60.37 bringing my total for the month so far to:-



$ 168.00 /$300.00

Solstice_3

Tried to come on here yesterday to update but the website was being silly so here are yesterday's spends, I went to lots of different shops including Butchers, total spends were £43.71

I am over budget and have spends today but I am not too concerned as today is the last day and I have been buying food to cover Christmas Eve onwards so although it's coming out of the Dec budget it will, hopefully, reduce my first weeks spend from the January budget *fingers crossed!

Another shop today, not having a car is pain when trying to do a "big shop", and then a very small one Weds from the new budget.

I popped into my local butchers yesterday and had a lovely long chat. He was very friendly and helpful and told me all about where the meat is sourced - all local except bacon and ham. Funnily enough one of the farmers who provides the meat popped in so I got the info from the horses mouth so to speak. Left with some bacon, needed, and a shin bone from a cow to make beef stock with (I've always wanted to try making beef stock) and a determination to do my meat shopping from the butchers next year and finally try Jamie's Brisket roast recipe ^_^

I'll be back later to declare