December 2014 Grocery Challenge

Happygreen

Good morning, all and thanks to the housekeepers on this thread for all oyur hard work over the year(s?).

Please put me down for£200 again this month, I'll give it another go.
I'm tempted to start off with an Approved Foods order, but maybe I can control the urge....

miss_try_to_save

hi all first nsd of Dec for me I seem to be quite well stocked up still from last month freezer wise anyway so attempting to run it down a little to squeeze some Xmas food in so total still left for the month is £397

Coxy11

Hi everyone,


Budgets updated to here


Welcome/welcome back to:
pinkypig and findingmyfeet Nix143 would you like to set a target?


Small shop this morning which included £8 odd to donate to the local foodbank.


Dinner tonight is roast chicken with trimmings. Tomorrow we will have beef bourginon (sp?)


Have a good weekend all.
Coxy

bmma

my budget for December is £100.00p
thanks for running this thread- it really is a big help and thanks for all the inspiration to carry on x

Bobarella

Hi All
Husband bought groceries for our day out tommorow so £8 spent on YS delicacies still way cheaper than buying food at the amusement park (day out paid for with tesco vouchers)
Bob

WantToBeSE

Spent £4.50 this morning on some veg.


2 Mahoosive parsnips, a leek, 2kg of oranges and a ginormous cauliflower.


Have turned 1 of the parsnips into some parsnip fries, and the 2nd one will be used for spicy parsnip soup if I can find a decent recipe.

Happygreen

I'm applying some tricks to make me NOT go food shopping, lol. It's CPD training day today and I made a packed lunch AND am offering a lift to someone who will want to get back to her family. So hopefully NSD today, as was yesterday. If I manage to ignore the Approved Foods tempation I won't spend before Tuesday.

Soworried

Can you put me down for £350 this month please
My normal £200 plus my copper jar that has been saved all year and my nectar points that have been saved as well.

That is for 2 adults and 2 teens for all food, toiletries and cleaning.
I grabbed a few bits yesterday and need to shop today as we are out of a lot of things. I'll update my signature later, I'm off to catch up on the thread

sweetpea26

Could you please put me down for £450. This is for family of 5 adults. I am hoping to be able to stick to this total including family get-together the Monday before Christmas ... total of 10 adults. I am budgeting approx £50 of this total to that. I will be making chicken curry, spag bol, chilli, and a roast chicken with some veg etc for one person who is gluten intolerant. Rice, pasta and salad.

Home made mince pies and pavlova. Soft drinks and wine also to be included. Really up for the challenge to do all this for £50 but I think it is more than possible. Any leftovers will be ate by us lot the following day

So hoping for nsd today. Chicken curry rice and nann bread. Making it in the slow cooker for the first time so should be a very smelly curry house for the rest of the day.

Good luck to all.

scotmumof3

Happy St. Andrews Day everyone Going xmas shopping today :eek: but I am determined to have a NSD (I'm not counting xmas pressies as a spend coz it's already budgeted for) HM spaghetti bolognese for dinner with MF mince. Not sure how DH and DS2 will take it but I won't tell them and see if they notice:whistle: