December 2011 - Grocery Challenge

((((hugs)))) to all of you experiencing the bad weather. Hope you are all unscathed during the night. The wind is blowing strongly here and making a lot of noise and I can hear stuff blowing along and we are nowhere as bad as you have it.

DH seems to have seen sense and realises that home shopping is the way to go. He has asked me to add a couple of things to the order that he forgot to tell me about earlier, the boys are having a bangers and pizza evening at cubs and beavers so have had to order some GF stuff which has shoved the bill up.

Thanks for everyone's sympathy with my moans, it has helped me work through them. Recovering Spendaholic that is ridiculous, how do they expect people to survive like that? I can see why you don't use them now.

We had HM ready meals in the end, I am going to have to start replenishing my stock, it is seriously depleted.

spendaholic wrote: »

Gosh, p5 already! :eek:

I'm already down for £160 for this month (thank you!), which is £40 per week. My first week down and I only spent £38, which means I have £2 in the savings pot. :j (Every little helps.)

Hi spendaholic,

I just popped on this thread looking for something (I'm not GC-ing at the mo) and noticed you said page 5 - this is page 3 for me, you might find it useful to change in your forum options so it shows more posts per page, cuts down the number of pages each thread has.

From the 'quick links' above and to the right, choose 'edit options'. There is a setting 'Number of Posts to Show Per Page' if you scroll down, it probably says 'Use forum default', I have it as 'Show 40 posts per page' I think it's the max.

Apologies if you already know this, just thought it might help as I was glad to find this out.

edit: obviously when I say 'this is page 3' I mean the page my quote is from, this is page 11 now!

KolaKube wrote: »

Rosieben and quintwins - thanks for the suggestions! I think quintwins may have it - clever! Petrol doesn't seem that much cheaper over the border but in terms of using the euros up we could use them to fill up OHs car which normally takes about £60 (we have a separate petrol budget - could then move the £60 into another budget / set it aside for januarys GC). And if theres any left over stock up on a few small bits while we're over there (although you can be guaranteed if theres any left over OH will spend it on bottles of diet coke and amazing down south dairy milk). Genius!

Edit: just got a letter in reminding me my car tax is due. That is where the £60 will go <sigh> always juggling money!

aww pity about your car tax, see since i live here i know petrols that wee bit cheaper, we live in armagh but i can remeber my mum driving me over the boarder when we were younger and filling up, they would fill the car and big drums in the boot and go once a month, we always fill up if were close to the boarder but it's not worth a special trip

Still doing well. Used up some veg last night. DH away over the weekend so will be living on soup and eggs. Going to try and put off shop until Sunday - will have to go then to get makings for Xmas to go in freezer. can't believe December is disappearing so fast. We're away next weekend so we'll be fed, but not sure when we'll get time to get tree, put decorations up, cook. (Am an accountant so worst time of year) Oh well. Plent of HM ready meals in freezer.

Added up our grocery spend for the month so far last night (1st-31st Dec) and we were at nearly £200:eek:

Then I realised DH had put on everything he had bought, inc No more nails and a new car battery :rotfl:

So proper budget is now £111 spent for the month, not bad seeing how I only need a bit of meat for Sunday and Ive still got loads of other stuff to eat

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