December 2015 Grocery Challenge HO HO HO!!!!

XSpender

Our total is now £214.36 after we bought our turkey, ham, gravy, garnishes, GF quiche and some ys much reduced GF bakery items at M&S. I didn't use my voucher as it isn't valid until Saturday! It will get used though as M&S do a good range of GF items and I still haven't got all then GF stuff I need for Christmas lunch.

I also spent £7.55 in sains, after I used £5 of points, on hair dye an something quick for tea.

£108.64 left until the end of the month. It is going to be tough to get the rest of the festive food and then last until the new year. I am off over the Christmas period so hopefully I can use the time to make meals using what we have in, not that I seem to have got around to it this week when I have been WFH!!

lynnejk

lushlifesaver wrote: »

Hopefully you will all welcome me back! January GC starts tomorrow for me and will be a long one as due to pay day moving for Christmas it makes it a 5 week month! and on top of that unusually bf will be at home most of it.

Welcome back to the challenge and good luck with next month

getmyacttogether2016 wrote: »

Evening all
I would like to join this challenge for January which for me starts Saturday.

Welcome to the Fred and good luck with the challenge. Don't forget to pop in and post to let us know how you are doing. Don't forget there's lots of help, advice and recipes in the first few posts.


Today I bought some tea-bags in £ stretch and £18.49 in Mr T.


Hope you all have a fantastic Friday
Lx

seth_andrew

Great discussion. Thanks.

chocolatelover93

£56 in @ldi
£15 in local butchers
£4 in 99p
And thats it (and all Xmas food too )

lynnejk

Evening all :hello:


NSD yesterday and another one today.


Hope you all have a super Sunday and aren't too stressed about next weekend. It will all be alright on the day
Lx

:santa2:. .:xmastree:.. :xmassign:.. :xmastree:. .:santa2:

Crowdpleaser

Hi all.

Fell off the cheese wagon and did aldiii and picked up pretty much all Xmas cheese and a few bottles beer for Dh and g n t cans for mum plus a bottle plonk and sone juice for kids.

Had to go Mr s today as Dd1 has nits. Grrr. Got some carrots plus deodorant and toothpaste whilst there too.

Sig updated. I can Def still make it as all Xmas meat etc already bought! X

mrs_motivated

Hi All, well I have lost all track of my grocery spend this month, but think I have kept within budget (or at least not far over).

I still have to pick up the meat, veggies and last minute Christmas shop on Wednesday...but then I shall be done until the New Year.

See you all in the January 2016 grocery challenge where I shall be back on track :wave:

XSpender

Main Christmas shop done and I am now at £370.65 out of a budget of £350. I still need to buy parsnips, a few buffet bits and some rum sauce and will need a top up of bread at some point but may get it this week and freeze.. I couldn't find a carton of rum sauce anywhere in a massive Mr T yesterday. Maybe they don't do it anymore:( My great aunt Doris always used to make rum sauce to go with the Christmas pud and I prefer it to brandy sauce.

Although I will be over budget I haven't done too bad seeing as I spent £379 last month and I didn't have the extra expense of Christmas and we have allowed ourselves a few treats like 6 gluten free Viennese whirls (used to love these before I was Coeliac). At £3.49 I need an excuse like Christmas to justify buying them!

I am hoping we wont need to shop after tomorrow until the new year!

candygirl

Been to ALDEE today,n it wasn't too hectic, thank God Got cheeses , crackers, breads n booze, and a beautiful mahoosive xmas bouquet , as part of Mum's prezzy Also got SIL a bottle of Ameretto.As booze n gifts aren't included in my grocery budget, this means i've spent £15 today, so hopefully still within budget :j:beer:

XSpender

Finished my Christmas food shop in Mr T and M&S and my total is now £429.75, £79.75 over budget and I am not doing a proper food shop again until after the new year. We will probably need bread and fruit but that should be it.

Today's spend does include £6.95 on shower gel and sanitary products and an eye watering amount for 6 GF sausage rolls. My GF 6 cost the same as 72 non GF ones.:eek:

No rum sauce to be had so went for the brandy sauce instead:(