December 2014 Grocery Challenge

Catcherupper14

Declaring a final spend of £132.21 for December.
I think I have plenty of food in the freezer for the first two weeks of January too.

Happygreen

Roughly updated the spends but I'm sure there are still some pre-Christmas receipts lurking at the bottom of my handbag....the big lump of festive meat has been added, that probably will propel me over the target this month, and I did get a free delivery code for Approved Foods :mad:

Billie-jo

£0.98 spent on two bags of sugar which is going towards our local food bank.
Have just made a bread & butter pudding with some bread rolls we had left over. Will have this tonight after our tea which is probably going to be left over ham with a few chips.

scotmumof3

billie-jo that looks goooood
£13.77 spend for me today at tesc*. I have gone over budget now but only 1 more day to go for me thankfully

Smoosh

£5.43 on 4 litres of Pepsi max & some cat litter.

£8.25 on milk, 2 packs of anti bacterial wipes & about a week's worth of cat food.

£1.21 on a "berrymisu" dessert (YS), 5 jam doughnuts (YS), a pack of spicy chicken wings (YS), a pot of potato salad (YS), 2x broccoli & tomato quiches (YS) & some potato wedges (YS).

I need to stop shopping, think I have enough food to feed about 10 people and there's just the 2 of us!

fedupandskint

Popping on with my 2014 total for the year.

Went over by £231.25 for the whole year which works out at £19.27 per month. Not great but manageable. Will try harder next year to stay on the same budget.

2014 budget £1200
Total for 2014 £1431.25

bestill

Declaring a total Dec spend of £278.85/£300 . Very pleased to come under budget. Thank you to everyone who runs and contributes to this forum. I know I would have spent quite a bit more if I wasn't having to declare my spends here.
Hope you all have a Happy New Year and look forward to seeing you all o the January list.

january_23

Our December finished on the 25th.
I am declaring £329.51/£450 as my total. I am almost positive I have included everything. If I find more I will add them.

Hope everyone had a good Christmas. See you on the January thread.

Airthrey

First_Trouble wrote: »

Ouch! I tend to snip chillies using scissors directly into what I am cooking, means you are only touching the stalk part of the chilli. Hope this helps for next time.

Thanks First_Trouble, can't think why I didn't think of that.

I'm declaring £251.50 for December, which is £1.50 over target. I'm fairly happy with that, given how much extra I spent on meat and alcohol this month. I'd have come under if I hadn't been using up a W8rose £6 off voucher.

Happy New Year everyone. I'm off to try to think up a sensible budget for January.

GettingOrganised

Had to get milk and bread in my lunch break, so I decided to get a few other bits to see us through the next few days without going to any other shops. So, just under £30 spend. I didn't manage to get 2 of the items on my list, but I should be able to hang on until January for these!

As a few others have said, I've also got quite a well stocked freezer, so I'm hoping for a low spend January.