December 2016 Grocery Challenge

pinkypig

Hi everyone

£9.60 on milk, shampoo, rice, fruit and veg including food tech ingredients ( I've just accepted that I'm at their mercy as I never know more than a few days in advance and I just have to get what's needed although I do I improvise if possible). The fruit was all super six that is coming to an end tomorrow so I got two lots of apples, mangoes and oranges and a pack of bananas as we eat lots of them and 59p is very reasonable.
I'm always staggered by how a few bits always seems to add up to a lot! Still, it's better than last month:o

PP x

t14cy_t

nsd yesterday. yippee!!

elsiepac

I did a big shop last night but will update my budget later... just wanted to say Tesc0 has bags of curly kale on at 50p at the mo which is a bargain! Still really annoys me that they insist on only selling chopped though, it's such a waste and so much hassle to go through and remove all the stalks.

meg72

just_the_two_of_us wrote: »

Hi all
Have been reading the thread but not totalled my spends as yet. Think I only need food for next week then chicken and veg, pots and milk for over Xmas weekend. What have you all done about Xmas - added extra onto your normal monthly shop?

I save all year for Christmas pressies and food, so it dosent come out of my grocery budget.

elsiepac

I did a big shop last night - the grocery part of it came to £42.83, but I had 85p back from multibuys, 50p back from brand match, plus my £6 voucher, so actually only £35.48 to update which I'm really please with. It's fresh and frozen fruit and veg mostly, with a few cupboard bits eg pumpkin seeds. olive oil and almond milk, and a couple of spices I'd run out of or was getting close to.
I'll need a few bits next week but that should be me pretty much done.

Oh yes, and my boss gave me back the money I spent for his lunch the other day, plus a bit extra (I posted a letter for him and he made me keep the change to cover the other!), plus change from someone else stuff I got for them so £1.38 to add back in!)


Date.......Shop......Amount.....Remaining
25 Nov.....BF........£53.11.....£106.89 (Health Food Stock Up Shop)
26 Nov.....Steve.....£01.00.....£105.89 (for crisps)
26 Nov.....Mark......£01.50.....£104.39 (for bakery)
26 Nov.....T3sc0.....£21.18.....£83.21 (proper groceries shop)
5 Dec......T3sc0.....£22.95.....£60.26 (stock up grocery shop - baking things, tins, salt, stock cubes etc)
7 Dec......T3sc0.....£01.94.....£58.30 (croutons for me for a salad at lunch - last minute using up iceberg which I never normally have! plus rice for my boss... hopefully I'll get that 84p back!)
8 Dec......Co-0p.....£06.45.....£51.85 (kale, spinach, lemons, coriander, tomatoes, limes and peppers - was £8.13 but I used £1.68 on my membership card)
9 Dec......A1d1......£02.17.....£49.68 (onions, peppers, brown sugar)
9 Dec......T3sc0.....£02.19.....£47.49 (salsa, houmous, broccoli)
12 Dec.....T3sc0.....£02.69.....£44.80 (salad leaves and cherry tomatoes from little t3sc0 hence pricey!)
14 Dec.....Chippy....£01.65.....£43.15 (Spring roll at lunch time - got free chips as they forgot to charge as I was getting for a few people in work and they were busy so gave me them free! Saved £2.05!)
14 Dec.....C0-0p.....£01.00.....£42.15 (Ritter Sport Marzipan)
14 Dec.....T3sc0.....£35.48.....£6.67 (Big Shop)
14 Dec.....Cash......£01.38.....£8.05 (Paid Back from people)

kkffoo

As it is THE LAW that Christmas food shall be worried about, and my meal plan and careful budgeting are defeating those parts of my brain that usually have fun fretting completely new bits of brain are leaping in to take their place.
What if president of hubby's firm has overspent on the fire insurance for the overseas tax haven volcano base, and the Christmas food vouchers are not going to arrive? Now that I've thought that, and imagined not having to do as much washing up and cooking due to the Christmas pasta fallback position only needing one pan, can I now motivate myself to do otherwise? Should I hide the vouchers even if they do turn up?...:cool:

After the 'christmas crackers are not essentials' discussion hubby and I had back in November, I was chuffed to find a box stashed away from last January with a large 'final reduction £1.24' sticker on the front. :xmassmile

My festive anxiety based festive overspending urges are hard to contain, but I have no more online shops left, and everything coming into the house now is filtered through what my trolley hating hubby can fit in a wire basket. Adding extra items to the list leads to random deletions, and after this morning's missing bread flour I shall have be more disciplined (he did fit both 9 toilet rolls and a pack of kitchen rolls on top of our regular shopping in the one basket, which is quite an achievement when taking aisle corners at speed..he calls it power shopping.)
I also spent half an hour yesterday reinforcing his grocery bag after discovering a ripped seam, so I think the athletic approach extends to the car park sprint as well.

Áldi essentials £18.43
£133.34/£273.08

Mrs_Cheshire

Hubby gets paid tomorrow so I'll be budget watching from then. Popped to A1di today to get a top up shop, ended up buying 3 christmas gifts as well. Only spent £12.54!
I'm planning on trying to use up what we have in over the weekend, so I can get my Christmas shop on Tuesday, I'm away weds- fri and don't fancy shopping on Christmas eve with 3 young kids. Anything that won't keep will be frozen.

Suffolk_lass

We have been running down some stores, making room in the freezer for five dozen hm mince pies.

I know I do have a tendency to hoard... examples not part of grocery shopping - I have not had to buy any Christmas stamps for two years as they have 2nd printed on them - despite posting 78 cards this week there are still some left

However (and the link to Grocery Challenge), I did finally run out of cards (after not buying for 3 years) and bought some and inadvertently added them in to my grocery spend, so that is £8 back :T

I am also down to the last full box and one partial box of crackers now! all from last year and two years before that. Hoarder? Moi?

Keep going everyone!

SL

ab_saver

£27.15 spent on Tuesday- £25 to come out of Xmas budget (spirits!) and £2.15 from general spends.

New totals as follows:

General: £8.63/15
Xmas: £54.73/60
Total: £63.36/75

thriftwizard

Oh dear, I've lost track... but I do know I'm well off track now! Will try to do some adding & receipt-finding tomorrow, but life's gone crazy busy again with unexpected things; something had to give and that something was the budget!