December 2019 Grocery Challenge

thriftwizard

£28.42 added, bringing my total so far to £183.82. That isn't actually what I spent in a quick dash to L!dls this morning; it's about a third of it, but the rest belongs to the Christmas budget, which so far is bang on track. The £28.42 was ordinary household stuff like chick peas, everyday flour, orange juice etc.

And my first nod towards the impending festivities was to bake the first batch of mince pies this year; I normally get going at the very start of December because I love them so, but for some reason couldn't get my head around it this year. Now, though - let the celebrations begin!

nannygladys

Hi everyone
Still keeping on track with food spends, a new week started today, so leftover money put into holding pot and new £35 put into purse. Went to Tosco with a list and spent 23.44, so the remainder is to last until until the end of next Tuesday. Should be able to that as I have quite a bit of food in. On the Xmas front Im hoping not to buy anymore food than a normal week but as I have budgeted for a bigger spend I will wait and see nearer the time. Feeling positive.
Nannyg

Suffolk_lass

thriftwizard wrote: »

And my first nod towards the impending festivities was to bake the first batch of mince pies this year; I normally get going at the very start of December because I love them so, but for some reason couldn't get my head around it this year. Now, though - let the celebrations begin!

I made 4 dozen mince pies this week and froze 3 dozen, ready to bake when needed. I sold the other dozen to a lady locally for a donation to the Charity I support. She has also frozen them, ready for when she has friends round. Used my homemade mincemeat too!

Mrs_Cheshire

Hi all,
Spent £140.10 so far this month, with all my shopping orders booked for delivery. At the moment the 5 deliveries come to £207.94 so I should be well within the budget of £400 for the 5 of us.

scotmumof3

Veg man £26.15 SM £31.12 so total this week £57.27
I have 12 days of meals in the freezer so that should take me up to Xmas and we are off to my mums for Xmas dinner so I don't have to worry about that Total for the month so far is £110.17/£200

tessie_bear

sure you all know but think the cheap veg offers have started very handy for soup and well meals x

i am doing quite well got a £1.50 box in lidl yesterday with a load of nanas in it safe to say i have made some banana bread and have had said fruit with custard for tea...also got a couple of bags of salad leaves for20p which we had with lasagne...i want to go to m and s to look at their cheap veg

will add up totals tomorrow to see whats what hope everyone is well

franby64

Just updating, doing better than I thought I would tbh!
Tomorrow I'm going to do 7 day plan using as much as possible that I have in.

Stay strong!

pamsdish

£57.52 spent in Morries I used £35 of more points, sister spent £12 of, £16 to come from a neighbour, so works out to a gain, will leave signature as is.

Hettyhound

I’ve spent £27.15 in Ald1 tonight so just short of £30 left. I’ve done a meal plan through to new year so next week I don’t need much; veg, bread, milk etc as there are plenty of batch meals in the freezer.

XSpender

I'm over budget at £312.86/£300 not sure why apart from I haven't been keeping a close eye on my spending.

I have a week of food spending to do and then most of the food for Christmas week is covered from anther budget as I have guests from Sunday 22nd until Friday 27th. My new month starts 27th as this would be our proper pay day if we were not getting paid early as I don't touch the month's money until then.

We will be mainly eating out of the freezer this coming week as I need to make more room for festive food/feeding the hoards and shouldn't need much more than milk and bread which will limit the damage somewhat.