December 2025 Grocery Challenge

thriftwizard

I braved the downpour & trotted down to L!dls; £95.67 spent on everyday groceries, which takes me up to £186.64 and this is only the first day of actual December! However I did want to get it done so I can concentrate on other things. More was spent on festive bits; I'm up to about £100 on groceries there but they did have things like smoked trout & goat's milk cheese which DDiL1 (married to DS2) can eat; it appears that DGD2 is very sensitive to cow's milk. She's otherwise the sleepiest & smiliest baby ever so this seems a small price to pay, and I'm not the one paying it anyway!

tiredwithtwins

Hi
Not posted on here for a few years, but lurk every now and then.
wanting to get back on track with no spend days & tight budget again (a few years ago, thru using the old style thread & a few others I managed to get myself out of £20k+ of debt; now need to get those savings back up!)

So can you put me down for £150 please?

thanks    xx

mandco

Spends totalling £159.82 over the weekend 
asda £39.64
aldi £28.64
iceland £37.90
sains £53.64
£28.26 was out of the Xmas budget for a £8.95 side if salmon in sains, a couple of tubes of Pringles @£1.50, 4 for £5 goodfellas pizza Asda, £3 on snowman toilet rolls Iceland (ds wanted them) and some baking ingredients.

£131.56/£650   £28.26/£250 Xmas budget 

Nelliegrace

Thank you @JingsMyBucket. 

We get the pensioners’ £10 Christmas Bonus, unchanged since it was introduced in 1972, when it was enough for the roast turkey dinner and several days of Christmas celebration.  (With inflation it would be worth £191 in 2025.)

I shall increase the £5 a day grocery budget for two, therefore from £155 to £175 for December. £20 should cover our home cooked Christmas dinner for two. We treat it as a fairly normal Sunday Lunch.