December 2018 Grocery Challenge

CRANKY40

Thanks for the new thread Elsiepac. I checked the dates for my grocery budget and to my horror realised that if I keep to Mondays I will be food shopping on Christmas Eve. My first thought was "not in this lifetime" so I've moved my dates and budget around.

In December I will be shopping on Thursday or Friday starting with the 30th November. Hopefully this week will be a cheap week as I've only just shopped. I'll probably get extra cat food/litter to put away in case we have snow. This makes a 5 week month so my total will be £250 please.

I'll be making mince pies for all and sundry but I have most of the stuff in that I need for those. My very small Christmas cake is made as are those for my friends. Hopefully I can stick to budget - the HT likes to stick to normal food and I'm following slimming world and shouldn't be shopping for extra Christmas sweets/junk anyway.

BappyBrunette

Hello

Newbie alert - can I be put down for £40 per week please me, 8 year old, and 3 year old + 2 dogs

tiredwithtwins

Hiya!
thank you for starting the thread!
please can you put me down for £150 this month!? I still have a freezer half full of food, so intend to be frugal for the first few weeks - I should be able to stretch to just weekly veg up to xmas, then have an indulgent spend for xmas week!
my dec is 29th nov to xmas week ... being a nurse im working over most of xmas, however I get paid on the 19th dec, then don't get paid again until 24th jan .. that will be a very lean month!!


good luck everyone!


sue xx

becky170

Can I join for the December Challenge? I really need to get our grocery shopping under control as I'm now on maternity leave on SMP. Can I be put down for £450? That's for 2 adults, a toddler and a baby and is include all food, formula, nappies, toiletries and cleaning products. Thank you!

FTBNow

Can I join in for the December challenge too? We spent £345 last month on shopping (and that was just out the joint account, not including our own) which is absolutely extortionate. Can I be put down for £200 which is for two adults and two dogs? Thank you! The £200 includes all food, toiletries, dog food and cleaning products.

[Deleted User]

Hi, Can I please join? Aiming for £150 for the month.

Month runs from now until 31st December and will include our Christmas dinner at home for me and OH.

mummygems

Id like to get back into this please as I need to sort out paying off our debts big time so money I save from this will be thrown at other debt. Spent the last few days sorting and managing and then writing lists upon lists lol.

Can I join December Grocery 26/11- 26/12 £500 please.
(We get paid earlier in December but if I stop the grocery a week earlier for pay day then its a 5 week month and I don't want that lol). Christmas is spent visiting various family from Christmas eve to boxing day so for the bits i'm taking and alcohol I've budgeted £100 (not part of the grocery money).

Mrs_Cheshire

Could you put me down for £400please, have already purchased the turkey and some snacks/chocolate so should be able to keep the spend to the same as usual.
I'm doing a freezer inventory over the next few days and hope to use up quite a bit so I have room for any snacks etc

candygirl

Can I be put down for £150 for Dec please?

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here