December 2024 Grocery Challenge

otb666

Can I have £550 again this month please @elsiepac 3 adults 2 tortoises Thank you x 

Nelliegrace

Thank you @elsiepac. 

This will complete the year using WW2 ration quantities. 

I am keeping Christmas as my Grandparents would have done without any of the junk food from the supermarket aisles. I think a medium sized chicken will be a treat, with British seasonal vegetables. 
I did consider making Mock turkey with parsnip and sausage meat, or a cottage pie with turkey mince. 

https://the1940sexperiment.com/2023/09/24/mock-turkey-wartime-christmas-recipe-no-215/

I think we have enough brandy for baking, sherry for a trifle, and some Irish Cream we were given but didn’t open last year. We have vintage homemade mead from a beekeeping friend and bottles of sloe gin made over several years. 

My grocery budget is for food and a little alcohol for two pensioners.

December budget £5 a day, £155. 

Mrs_Cheshire

Could you put me down for £500 please for the month to feed 2 adults, 15,13 and 9 year old boys/men! 

We've already got the majority of snacks/drinks/treats in, just need the fresh stuff. Will be mostly shopping online with home deliveries to avoid the chaos at the supermarkets, but will need to do at least one trip to Ald! to use some vouchers and one to L!dl to use £5 off £25 spend voucher. 

PipneyJane

Thanks for the new thread, @elsiepac.  Your managing of the Grocery Challenge is much appreciated.

Please put me down for £160

That’s for (virtually) all grocery shopping for two people, including toiletries and cleaning products.  It won’t include the Christmas goose, which is covered by the Christmas savings fund (we set aside £20/month).

Our month will run from 1st to 31st December.

- Pip

LotsOfTea

I'm going to go for a bigger than normal budget for this month as we'll be doing a fair bit of entertaining and will definitely want some festive treats (medjool dates and lebkuchen in my case).

£500 for December please

Suffolk_lass

Not looking brilliant for December here if I am to stay under my £3000 annual budget. The balance (allowing for Friday's milk bill) is £419.87. I do have a separate pot for Christmas butcher so it is possible, but not guaranteed. I will almost certainly need more milk and cream this week as I'm in the process of making several batches of honey fudge!

TravelCrystal

Afternoon all

Before I start I have just read @Nelliegrace regarding mites in the oats.
Just made some more muesli mix from the Lidl's oats I bought this morning.
I didn't check for mites
Sure it will be fine!!!

Anyway here we are in December ( I know we are not)
Massive spends already

Christmas wine, free glasses and gin and 2 bottles of fizz included plus 16 wines £159.99
Festive meat, Duck, Turkey Breast Roll, Chicken, Guinea Fowl, Bacon, Calve's, Chicken and Lamb's Liver and a Gammon steak, Pork mince, Turkey mince, Beef and Lamb mince. 2 x Lamb Hearts all delivered from the Farm Shop and now in Freezer for £150.03 

Asda £2.60 for bin liners and Air Freshener. 
 Today in Lidl's £1.50 Fruit and veg box
Free cream cheese, discounted muffins, Lurpak butter cheaper than usual so bought a couple.
General fruit, veg and groceries £22.21
For some reason no margarine so went to Mr T's and bought Marg and Brandy £8.25
Grape Tree for some Jumbo Oats that I like for my porridge £1.79

Lastly we had a fun trip, to Shropshire to visit DS2 and Grandchildren in Storm Bert, out Saturday, back Sunday. 4 hour journey.
So called in to Gloucester Services on the return for our lunch £31.00

So total so far £377.37/£600

Hope you are all having a good day

T.C

MissRikkiC

We are Shropshire @TravelCrystal and the weekend really was blustery! I too had oats this morning without checking for crawlers! Added protein?

MissRikkiC

Please put my budget for December as £500 without anything i deem to be Christmas extras such as the joint, beers etc 

This is to cover 2 adults, 2 chidren aged 4 and 2, one of which has allergies (so require lots of expensive full of cr#p dairy free items) and cleaning, household stuff (loo rolls etc) and drinks for my husband and i. I no longer drink alcohol but enjoy AF beers however my DH does still have some beers. 

Cant seem to be able to do mentions sorry....

diminua

Hi Elsiepac,

Could you put me down for £230 again please?

I do have a Christmas budget so anything bought for the Christmas meal (which is at my cousin's but we buy a bit each) will come from that, as will Christmas drinks/lunch at work. Anything bought to be consumed at home will come from grocery budget though.

thank you,

Dmna