December 2020 Grocery Challenge

joedenise

• Lucky you ////2 Frugalastimama
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thriftwizard

£41.59 added from a last-minute top-up on 23rd; to be honest, most of it probably belongs in the Christmas budget, except the bread & bananas (about £11, most of the bread being in the freezer) but as I'm still under I'll count it in anyway! No further expenditure needed until we're well into January, and I'm staying well out of the shops whenever possible, so I'll declare for December with £50+ to "carry forward" in case of budgetary emergencies in the New Year. 

Also hoping you continue to be well, D&G, and in fact all of us. Wishing everyone a calm & peaceful New Year; may it bring us all health and happiness!

Mrs_Cheshire

I distrubt for olio and collected on Christmas eve, gave awa 2 whole salmons as well as 2 crates of vegan meals/ meatfree pieces plus loads of other ready meals, bread, veg, fruit and eggs. Some very happy people who managed to fill their freezers. 
I managed to keep some bits for myself too, couldn't keep too much as my freezers are pretty full. Going to try and use as much as possible before Thursday, just in case there is any meat & fish again. 
I popped into the local Mr T today to drop the plastic crates back and managed to pick up some bargains, 74p for a full chicken, 95p for pork fillet medalions and packs of smoked salmon for 50p (only small packets but ideal for 2). Chicken is in the slow cooker and the rest in the freezer. 

I've got a shop coming on Monday and then that will be it for 2020. 

pamsdish

After hopefully seeing the back of 2020 and all its evil, I have had to upgrade my phone early, dropped it ages ago while connected to the charger, damaged the phone connection, now it is very hit and miss if it charges, paid for an early upgrade, I do control my life through my phone, calendar, shopping list, banking etc.

MazzieD

It's going to be impossible to set a budget for January so after a lot of thought I'm going to come off the challenge for a while.  I'm trying a very different approach in 2021 which I'm hoping will reduce my grocery spends considerably.

Happy New Year everyone and hope you  have continued success with your budgets

ancientmum

I'm putting my purse away until 1st January so declaring an actual yearly spend of £1766.70 against a projected £1500.  
Happy New year every one.  X

thriftwizard

Declared a little too soon; somehow the troops had forgotten to tell me that we'd run out of sliced bread (OH & DS3's preference) so feeling a tad stir-crazy & reckoning the crowds would be staying away from a little town where nothing's open except the two supermarkets, I wandered up to W8rose. It was pretty empty, and I've never seen so many yellow stickers. Not many of them were big reductions, but I hoovered up a number of them anyway, to the tune of £15.41, as I'm still under-budget. No harm in having some extra fresh stuff; it'll get eaten anyway & the freezer contents will still be available another day.

quintwins

Well I'm wildly over budget! I'm at £678.56 so £228 over budget!!!! lets hope January is better, it should be I'll be going less places to actually spend money.

Mrs_Cheshire

I'm declaring £286.34/£300, this doesn't include the £200 christmas fund. Pleased to have managed to stay in budget for this month at least. Hope everyone has a peaceful end to the year and see you all in 2021 thread. 

mumtoomany

Went for milk yesterday, yellow labels in Morrisons! Now spent another £21.56, have loads more sausages, and stacks of cream. Total now at £416.00/£300. Mumtoomany.