December 2022 Grocery Challenge

herebeme

£14.19 today on groceries via deliveroo.  Super lazy and more expensive. Still it’s raining and NYE so I’ll forgive myself.

Total for Dec 2022 now £137.39 / £150. 

And that’s a wrap.

JingsMyBucket

Last day of the year! Mr. Jings and I finally got to Morrison's after epic flooding in our town yesterday. Roads were washed out, the works. Our favourite coffee shop has been absolutely flooded with water. Thankfully, it's tidal so the water went out this morning at 6am but it was up the height of the tables in there. Sigh. 

A couple spends to declare. £19.90 in Morrison's today on Korean ramen, croissants, yoghurt and skyr, shredded mozzarella, and a big jar of sauerkraut. OH wants to start eating that in the new year and reap the prebiotic benefits. Good luck to him!

On the way home we stopped at the M & S and spent £6.05 on more yoghurt, bananas, and potatoes. 

£410.15 / £400.00 spent and I'm declaring for the month. We have so much food in the fridge that it definitely needs a New Year's Day clean out. 

Have a good night everyone, and stay safe! 

P. S. Well done @Soontobeoap on the weight loss! That's really tough and you made it.  

MissRikkiC

I got myself all mixed up with Christmas and December spends so not going to declare at all. I entertained more than I expected to, I spent more than I planned to but also do have more leftovers than I thought I would have. So not all bad. 

However, we are on my penultimate month of drab maternity pay so hugely reduced the budget this month and absolutely crapoling myself as to if it’s even possible for us. That said, we’re a week into our month for January anyway and only 3 to go so maybe not awful at all. Plus an awful of stuff In the freezer from Olio hopefully with more to come tonight. Sigh. Let’s see. 

We’ve all had lurgy, I’ve still got sticky eyes and everyone still has coughs and snotty noses, so will be so glad when it’s all over and we’re all better. Tonight we absolutely have no desire to cook, eat, have a take away or do much at all so we will likely be in bed early 🤣 Happy NY for everyone 

Gettingmyshiztogether

Declaring my December... 11p over my budget, I'll take that. Prior to this challenge that would have been far far over.

We have lots of food in now and so January will be a "use up" month. I ve already done a meal plan, although I feel anxious at the rigidity of it all.

I am hoping that I can slightly change up how I food shop, using half of our allocated monthly money for a c0stc0 trip next month, and snapping up YS veggies/ items I can freeze for when we need them. 

£460.11/£460 December over and out!

Happy New Year all x

ancientmum

The last spend of 2022 left me with a surplus of £9.80 in the budget so that is going into the fun money pot and a hopeful start to the new year.  The January budget starts from today so see you all on the new thread.

Happy New Year everybody

K9sandFelines

I was up to £80 with two weeks to go of a £120 budget, so think I probably wouldn't have made it (as DD2 is here til about the 7th, and I've had DD1 and GD here as well). I massively underbudgeted this month, but onwards and upwards.

I'm starting the month/ year of the new grocery challenge on the 1st not the 13th from now on, so I've cut this year short. Hopefully with mostly just me here now for the rest of January I won't go over again.

Happy New year to everyone and see you in the 2023 thread ✌🏻

gill5blue

Soontobeoap said:

Well done @gill5blue. That is amazing. How long did that take. I really want to lose weight but never manage to stay on track. I need to be more disciplined. You are an inspiration to us all. 

Well thats it then. Well over budget. Didnt anticipate any christmas entertaining and we have ended up entertaining four days over new year. £70.86 Spent today in Sainsburys. So I am declaring for the year. Under the yearly budget but well over for December. Over to 2023 where I am really going to try and spend less. I did manage to stay inside my yearly budget but monthly calculations were rubbish. I will be using 2022 guestimates to inform 2023.

Happy new year everyone. 🎉🎉🎉

Hi @soontobeoap,
it took me 3 years to lose the weight, I used slimming world, and now I am at target it is free. win, win.
I couldn't have done it without slimming world, and my consultant is just lovely.
Gill5Blue

PipneyJane

Well done @gill5blue!  

I am declaring at £133.80/£142.20,

leaving £8.40 to roll over to January.

While we did go shopping on Friday, it was for our contribution to a weekend away at a friend’s, so we agreed it’d come from a different budget.  

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

- Pip

SausageDogSandwich

Still managed to go massively over, have finally just sat and worked it out to £397. We did have a lot of branded fizzy pop, crisps, biscuits chocolate, smoked salmon, lots of cheese and crackers. And then Christmas dinner itself cost around £100 of that. So I can definitely see how it got to that much. 

£397/350 spent. Happy New Year everyone 

joedenise

@SausageDogSandwich - sounds like it would be worth you putting some money away every week/month towards Christmas food rather than doing it from December's budget.  It's what I do and it means there's not a huge overspend in December!