December 2023 Grocery Challenge

joedenise

Needed more eggs and also bought 1/2 cucumber as the piece I have left in the fridge definitely isn't going to last beyond today!  My total spend for the first half of the month is £61.85/£200 so £138.15 left for 2nd half of the month.

All food apart from veg has been bought and frozen but that came from the Christmas budget.  When the veg wars start I will definitely be buying some and freezing.  Will need to squeeze into small spaces until the Christmas stuff comes out!

otb666

620/600 well thats me stuffed for december grocery budget.  I still will have milk to buy over next 10 days.(we do allow an extra £300 for xmas) hoping i wont need to use much of that over next 10 days.  Do i win a prize for being the first one over this month ?. I will go and stand in the corner now facing the wall

Frugalistamama

Can someone just help me with something? What is a 'wonka meal'?

Soontobeoap

@Frugalistamama.chocolate? 🤷‍♀️

thriftwizard

Loving the idea of a Wonka meal! But only because I don't have any, with DD1 not around right now...it'd be a different story otherwise! (Apparently there are actual chocolate shops in Chile, and also in Argentina which is a whole 5 miles away & where the nearest big town is. And actual chocolate farms in Ecuador, next stop after Peru... I'm beginning to see why she chose South America for her Big Adventure Before Settling Down...) 

A very moderate £13.92 spent today, on a large chicken, 500g of mince, some cheap Brie (not a fan of the melty stuff) and one or two other odds & ends; the main market spend will happen tomorrow, but actually we don't need all that much - for this week, anyway. So holding my course & steady as she goes, as my somewhat nautical family would say! In other words, still on target - so far!

CRANKY40

I gave up keeping track of the receipts but I have paid for everything I've bought and I have £124.35 left from the original £300 in my grocery pot so £175.65 spent. There is no room in the freezer to squeeze anything else in so all good. I have a delivery coming next week but that should be around £50 and is cat food, milk, bread - that kind of thing. 

Frugalistamama

Spent another £83.72 on my grocery shop this week so spent £276/£400 leaving £124. I'm away for a week so this should be enough. Not doing as badly as I thought. 😀

PipneyJane

Good evening All

Apologies for being AWOL.  I have been reading along, just not posting.  Hope everyone is well.  @elsiepac, I am sorry, but I need to increase my budget to

£152.00

Turns out we had £12 left in the GC purse at the end of November, once DH took back the money he’d spent.  Probably just as well because, after two large shops at L!dl and half-a-dozen small shops at Sainsbugs and MrT’s, we’re currently at £76.03/£152, leaving £75.97 for the rest of the month.  

There’s not much on the shopping list, so I hope to avoid the bigger supermarkets until after Christmas.  The one thing we definitely need is an orange, for the juice and the zest, for the stuffing for the goose.

- Pip

thriftwizard

I was just congratulating myself on a moderate £29 spent at the market this morning when DD2 & I came across a rather nice fishmonger's whilst Christmas shopping just over the border in the next county & were inspired to spend £13 on some smoked haddock; OH was out at his work's Christmas Do, so we enjoyed a couple of haddock steaks cooked up with zaatar along with garlicky mashed yam (market bargain) with roasted peppers & leftover green beans. The rest of the haddock has been diced up & frozen for fish pie or kedgeree sometime, as has the other half of the yam. So £160 left to do for the best part of 2 weeks, with assorted guests, but festive leftovers (which will have come out of a separate budget) should carry us through most of the last week nicely.

Suffolk_lass

Frugalistamama said:

Can someone just help me with something? What is a 'wonka meal'?

Soontobeoap said:

@Frugalistamama.chocolate? 🤷‍♀️

Or maybe the three course meal bubble gum? (tomato soup, roast beef, and blueberry pie)