December 2018 Grocery Challenge

Monthly budget will aim for £300
To include all food, toiletries, cleaning stuff, cat food and cat litter, non alcoholic drinks.!
NSD will aim for at least 15 1/15

Hi everyone,
Had an unexpectly good day today.
Went to a xmas market this afternoon with dh and ds and, I nearly gave into temptation but they weren't interested in any of the food, unbelievable but I'm very pleased about that. We did have lunch before we went out so it would just have been greed.
We ALMOST need some milk but dh says it can last till Monday, so I'll go with that. I'm a bit of a sucker in a smt; can't just buy one thing.
Ds asked us if we want fish N chips tonight, once again I'm going with dh in avoiding this temptation ad he's set on making us a vegetarian chilli with brown rice, all from store cupboard (would just LOVE fish N chips tho��! ).
Ps loving all the ideas and suggestions from you all.

My Annual budget means I have £589.95 left for December, including some stores (always good for YS on Christmas Eve) and Christmas excess. We are not buying the usual boxes of sweets or biscuits this year. I will buy some regular crackers and a packet of McYitties Digestives to go with cheese and I intend getting some of those red ball chocolates to intersperse with cracking walnuts (they look very festive).

I might also do something with my stash of macadamia (already shelled) nuts that might involve homemade chocolate fudge or dipping them in something lovely, but it will be small. We have not spent this autumn carefully losing weight and taking our food back to simple home-cooked vegetable-heavy meals to throw all away. I have a medium frozen turkey crown that will indulge our desire for turkey salad and sandwiches with HM bread and I will be buying a much smaller FR turkey for the day (so some premium and some economy ingredients). I love Christmas hosting for lots of family and friends (it makes us clean and tidy up too!)

Chloris wrote: »

I've managed to spend £13 already, new toothbrushes and our shampoo was on special offer so I stocked up. I will do a freezer and cupboard inventory before the next shop. We are batch cooking a vegan leek, chestnut and mushroom stuffed seitan loaf which should keep us fed on Sundays for a few weeks.

Good luck everyone.

That sounds delish

Thanks for the new thread elsiepac (last one of 2018 :eek: ), hello to regulars and welcome to newbies and returners. :hello:

I'm in again please, two adults, groceries only, with a reduced budget of £110 for 2nd - 29th December. It should be £140 for a 4-week month but I've cut £30 off to make up for the overspend I had last month. Should be perfectly do-able as the freezer, fridge and cupboards are well stocked and Christmas dinner at home this year is just for the two of us. It will be pretty much like a normal Sunday dinner with a couple of added extras. Definitely don't need ginormous amounts of "stuff" to have to deal with post-Xmas Day - I'd rather have some room for the reduced bargains that I come across.

Good luck everyone!

No budget this month, though going to try and spend similar to previous months. I have spent £1000 ish less than last year; so this is brilliant for me, as I must have been doing this now for about seven years. I feel truly accomplished this year.
Next year could go to pot though as we are moving in the summer and I will have two extra mouths to feed as DD1 & GD are moving in. I am so glad I have reigned everything in before this happens, as I will hopefully be well equipped at pinching the pennies. However, i am not sure I will have access to as many bargains as I have done this past year in my place of work, so might mean the opposite.

Spent £3.19 yesterday at Morrisons, and £3.99 in B and M, and £2.16 in work today.
Total: £9.34