December 2015 Grocery Challenge HO HO HO!!!!

DuranGirl

Hello again everyone! :wave:


Ready for my third month on the GC and this one should be interesting! Thanks zippychick for signing me up again. I'm determined that this will be my last month of setting a £300 budget. In October I came in at £227.52 after setting a first estimated budget of £400. I think November will be around the same, and I reduced my budget to £300. I'll keep it the same for December because of Christmas, which I'm hosting. Then in January, I'm planning to start reducing the monthly budget by £10 or £20 - can't decide which yet.


My payday is always on the last working day of the month, which means Monday will be the last day of my November GC. After a final impromptu extras shop later today as m'chap is coming up early and will need feeding (and wining :beer: - no, we don't drink pints of wine!), I should have enough food in to get through until my monthly Ocado shop, which I'm planning to arrange for delivery on Tuesday evening.


See you back here on 1 December - with Santa hat, of course! :rotfl:

petsitter2000

Hi, I'm new to this.
Please can you put me down for £150 for one person?
Thank you.

XSpender

Please can I be put down for £350 for December. This includes a reduction on last month as I want to reduce what we are spending each month but also includes an amount for Christmas. The Christmas increase is to cover the treats we like such as a cheeseboard and the fact that I am at home a lot more in December (usually have meals paid for when away with work) and DS will be getting fed at home too (normally fed by DPIL who look after him after school) This year we are not entertaining anyone which will keep spends down.

I also have £24 of nectar points to use.

I would really like to come in under £300 but I don't think that is realistic for December.:o

Rowan9

[/Can I have £200 for this month please?

Oh I still can't manage to get red on this iPad!!
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KeepOnKnitting

Right, first full month of a proper grocery challenge for me, and it had to be December! I'm calling this a 5 week month, from Monday 30th Nov to Sunday 3rd January. £30 each week for the first three weeks, £60 for Christmas week and £40 for New Years week. Total £190. I will do this!

Dizzy_Imp

I'm in again please £350 for December. A hopeless target but it gives me something to aim towards. Lots of Crimble bits already stashed away (might explain November's budget blow out) so here goes nothing...

Maitane

Hi de hi,

Can you put me down for £250 please?

Might as well return to the Grocery Challenge by coming in at the deep end. This is a lot for the two of us normally (even with cleaning products and the like) but Christmas is a big affair with Mr Maity's family.

We'll be running from the 28th November to the 27th of December and we've spent £27.75 already which should see us through over a week.

We bought 4 packs of the diced chicken in Lidl's weekend deal along with their 59p leeks (along with other good veg offers) with an eye to using the GF pastry in my freezer for a nice pie. We also made good use of the local M&S with their yellow sticker happy staff and got a stock of cheese, cream, veggies and a pork joint to roast for later today.

Also went to see our lovely local butcher who is an absolute star where we spent £13 of our £27.75 on braising steak, steak mince, chicken carcasses for stock, a whole black pudding and an array of cooked meats for lunches. Also ordered the turkey and the ham for Christmas from him then found out he'll be doing a full on gluten free range for Christmas including sage and onion stuffing and pigs in blankets - woohoo :j

Really hoping to be under budget but not sure it's going to happen with the five gluttons at Christmas dinner.

Maity

petsitter2000

Hi, I'm new to this.
Please can you put me down for £150 for one person?
Thank you.

NewShadow

First spend of the month... £110 on two muscle food hampers to stock the freezer.

DuranGirl

£138.07 on my big monthly Ocado order. DD will be back from uni for 9 days, so I've upped my Quorn order substantially Got quite a lot of my Christmas bits on that, so I'm feeling fairly confident about being able to stay within £300, although I'm going to have to keep a close eye on it as I start buying the Christmas drinkies.... :beer:It'll come out of the bank on Tuesday, which is when I take the delivery, and that's the day after payday - phew!