December 2022 Grocery Challenge

leftatthetrafficlights

£37 spent yesterday on a variety of fruit and household items - somewhat more than I was expecting but I went to a shop that I don't usually go to and there were offers on some things that I use a lot of so worth buying them now! 

£121/£250

Soontobeoap

Welcome @herebe. Good luck with your challenge. We are all here for support of you need it

Just to say. Manic weekend with family staying and then  i got an  infection!!!!
DH has been creating simple meals so beans on toast last night. Have been feeling a bit rubbish but the bright side is that we havnt spent anything on grocerys. Will have to go shopping soon to stock up as last 2 months were spent clearing cupboards and freezer. Will do proper stock take when i feel better. 

thriftwizard

I'm off into December's budget with a spend of £72.69 on the "monthly" groceries down at L!dls. Actually it was rather a lot more than that as I managed to do most of the non-perishable Christmas shopping at the same time, meaning there won't have to be any last-minute dashes down to the city for lebküchen! But that comes out of the festive budget, which I save for all year. Having seen the news that coffee prices have just shot up, I bought double in the hope that'll see us through January too. My turkey is ordered & budgeted for, cake, mincemeat & pudding made, so I can concentrate on present shopping & sorting out the festive diary now. In theory...!

MissRikkiC

Thanks @thriftwizard you’ve just reminded me to place my order for coffee beans! 

MissRikkiC

This month I wanted to top up on chicken breast and other meats but mostly chicken. I get a bit funny about chicken, so wanted to ignore the fact that other places were cheaper for it and instead get better quality chicken from M&Ess. My husband works for their logistics provider so gets 20% off at Christmas plus we had a 1 time offer of 15% too. After working out that it made the chicken less than Tescow per kg I was happy to pick up the 4 or 5kg I’d planned and found there to be yellow stickers on a shelf full making it about £4.50/kg in the end. Cue a very happy shopper 😍

Main shopping done at Tescow, Lidlll for stores type stuff and resulted in 2 advent calendars (cheese ones …. Eeeeeeee) and M&Es for said chicken and a few other items. 

A TGTG bag tonight (hoping for veg for the freezer) plus some nappies and wipes mean that we’ve got approx £135 left! Eeeeish

Gettingmyshiztogether

Happy December! First spend today. We needed sausages and I grabbed a l!dls fruits and veg £1.50 box also.

I am left wondering if these are better for us than the TGTG boxes. Half the price and the type of food we would use ordinarily, plus its on the way home from dropping DD off at school rather than an extra journey.

£5.48/ £460 

bupster

Having come in under £200 last month for the first time since I restarted on the board, I'm going to go for the same again.

£200 please @elsiepac

It's either going to be dazzlingly good or hopelessly optimistic. I managed to spend my last £21 for November on staples, so I don't have to shop for a few days yet. I'm off sick right now and there's a Christmas market here so driving is a nightmare anyway. My cunning plan this month is to hang on till next week for a Sainsbury's order which can largely be stashed away - bread, a week's worth of milk, basics for the freezer, etc etc.

I'm definitely away from the 22nd to the 26th and perhaps a bit longer, and I've got friends around for a couple of days on the 20th/21st and again at New Year - but we'll likely eat out so that comes out of a different budget. So in theory, at least, I only have to buy enough fresh food to cover from the 6th to the 20th, and then top up. Best laid plans though...

Elisheba

Happy December, everyone.

My budget for this month is £100 again. 

I have already spent £9.48 on a bulk purchase of 12 packets of Kraft Cheesy pasta (I live in England and can't get them here, so had my mum in Scotland buy them from her corner shop where they are still 79p, and I will collect them at Xmas).  They are a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, so will ration out the boxes sparingly!

I also spent £8.81 at Tesco earlier on cheese, bread and eggs, to carry me over until my big shop at the weekend.

So now at £18.29 / £100

taka

taka said:

... It will be £170 + £50 bulk = £220 for the month. This may change a little if I have anything left over (or overspend! ) in the last few days of Nov! ...

Well it was an overspend so starting with a bit less than planned! 🙄 Adjusted budget is £157.17 + £45 bulk = £202.17 😄

A NSD today so off to a good start! 

Blackcats

Nothing spent yet in December.  Although that's not technically a great achievement on the 1st of the month we were tempted to go shopping but we put together a nice dinner from stores which means no "new" money spent.  We cooked Sausages, onions, peppers, tomatoes and cannellini beans served with green beans and home made tortillas (pitta breads sprayed with oil and sprinkled with seasoning then cooked in the air fryer for 5 minutes).

please can you put me down for £220 for December
Christmas spend is from a separate budget