December 2014 Grocery Challenge

Mr_Planky

I've not been online much over the past few days but am happy to report that we've only spent £42 on various food bits over the past week or so. It now looks as though I'm set to achieve the target for my first grocery shop challenge!


Now to decide how much to adjust my budget for January...I'm thinking if I try and reduce my target my £10 each month to begin with that would be do-able, although January always does seem like a long, long month!

meg72

Declaring for December at £80 which is £20 less than December last year so I think I have met my challenge for a bit less or stay the same. will work out exactly later.


Really pleased with this as it included a Christmas eve bargain hunt of £22, total of which would have been £80 plus. This has set me up with rammed freezers again so wont need to buy meat or fish for next 3 or 4 months. possibly longer as I have found over the year that I am eating less meat but more fruit and veg (slimming World)


Right off to join January thread for my 5th year and hopefully another frugal one.


Edited to say now totalled up and I am £33 under last years budget so 64p a week less lol. it dosent seem a lot but £33 will buy me everything I need for first couple of weeks in January.

scotmumof3

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Edited to say now totalled up and I am £33 under last years budget so 64p a week less lol. it dosent seem a lot but £33 will buy me everything I need for first couple of weeks in January.[/QUOTE]

Mr_Planky wrote: »

Now to decide how much to adjust my budget for January...I'm thinking if I try and reduce my target my £10 each month to begin with that would be do-able, although January always does seem like a long, long month!

meg72 I think you have done fantastic As you say that's a couple of weeks worth of shopping . Brilliant:)

Mr Planky I am going to try and reduce by £10 a month too and yes January does seem like a loooooong month:)

scotmumof3

Well £26 spend at tesc* today which takes me over my budget I am not too surprised at this though because I hadn't expected DS1 home from the army so early in the month and he can eat for his country so I hadn't budgeted enough. I also got some YS items to put in the freezer so this might balance out to next month will wait and see

Smoosh

Massive YS haul on Christmas Eve. £10.94 spent on a BBQ noodle pot, a sausage & mash meal, 3x sweet potato pies, a cheese & onion pie, a bolognese pasta pot, a pot of spiced butternut squash soup, a margherita pizza, a cheese feast pizza, a tomato & mozzarella & pesto pizza, 2x lasagne meals, chicken arrabiata pasta, 2x chicken chow mein meals, 8 mini hot dogs/cheese burgers in buns, 20 dough balls with a dip, 10 jalapeños stuffed with cream cheese, 4 cheesy bean pockets, an egg mayonnaise sandwich, a tray of BBQ sweet potato chunks, 2x chicken curry with egg fried rice meals, 6 vegetable spring rolls, a 4 portion sausage casserole, a sausage pasta bake, an autumn fruit crumble, 4 yoghurts with fruit compote, 1 big natural yoghurt pot, a pot of single cream, 2 cheesecake slices & a chicken dhansak with rice meal.

£1.50 on some brie.

£2.70 today on a box of goats cheese topped with honey & walnuts (YS), 2x chocolate & peppermint muffins (YS), a huge pot of tomato & basil pasta (YS), a pack of baby corn carrots broccoli and green beans (YS) & 5 limes (YS).

scotmumof3

Smoosh wrote: »

Massive YS haul on Christmas Eve. £10.94 spent on a BBQ noodle pot, a sausage & mash meal, 3x sweet potato pies, a cheese & onion pie, a bolognese pasta pot, a pot of spiced butternut squash soup, a margherita pizza, a cheese feast pizza, a tomato & mozzarella & pesto pizza, 2x lasagne meals, chicken arrabiata pasta, 2x chicken chow mein meals, 8 mini hot dogs/cheese burgers in buns, 20 dough balls with a dip, 10 jalapeños stuffed with cream cheese, 4 cheesy bean pockets, an egg mayonnaise sandwich, a tray of BBQ sweet potato chunks, 2x chicken curry with egg fried rice meals, 6 vegetable spring rolls, a 4 portion sausage casserole, a sausage pasta bake, an autumn fruit crumble, 4 yoghurts with fruit compote, 1 big natural yoghurt pot, a pot of single cream, 2 cheesecake slices & a chicken dhansak with rice meal.

£1.50 on some brie.

£2.70 today on a box of goats cheese topped with honey & walnuts (YS), 2x chocolate & peppermint muffins (YS), a huge pot of tomato & basil pasta (YS), a pack of baby corn carrots broccoli and green beans (YS) & 5 limes (YS).

Utterly amazing as usual

Billie-jo

Just £0.90 spent since last update taking us to £203.79

scotmumof3

NSD for me today so nothing to add .:)

CRANKY40

Gave my cousin a lift today to save her walking on icy roads so nipped into @sda for our milk and mushroom top up. £7.18 spent and that's me done for the month. The freezers still seem fairly full :T so we won't be going hungry any time soon. Total December spend £271.25

dramarama

Declaring my Dec total spends of £129 (ish)/£140 (total is in signature). Only went to the shop for a couple of bits today, then friends invited selves over and then that fell through...We are fully stocked in the freezer now though!

Have a fabulous evening.