This is my review of my December food budgeting and goals for January! For more information on this project, please take a look at Emily's Custom Made Blog!



If you remember November was out of control coming in at $719 and so eased up a little on my goal for December, putting it at $550.

For December, I came in at $635.18, not too shabby if I do say so myself! Considering it includes a birthday dinner (at Morton's no less) that I thought maybe I would take out since it technically was kinda a gift... and also a dinner I paid for when my family was in town. They did pay for quite a few of my dinners out though - and there were also a lot of family dinners attended with lots of leftovers!



I somehow did a dinner party in there and also made a double batch of crockpot mac and cheese for a work potluck that everyone RAVED about - which maybe me feel good, even though it was just this recipe tweaked a bit.

I also must mention I was gifted 2 cases of Christmas wine (that I gave a lot of as gifts) and I also had a Christmas party where people brought tons of extra drinks - so I think that helped a lot in my booze spending area.



I think I did better this month because I was eating so much rich food going out and to parties that I ate very little otherwise - and it was mostly vegetables or soups because I was just so full!!

For January, I am really planning on buckling down and eating at home more, although we will see how that goes! I am also trying to keep up the monthly dinner party and hopefully this month I can attend the Kaya Prix Fixe Vegetarian dinner again! I am setting my budget for this month at $500.

Wanna see how everyone else in the project did this week?

Other Bloggers Participating in the Project:

• Emily Levenson
  
• Dairy-Free Cooking
  
• Test Kitchen Tuesday
• Red Pen Mama
• Acquired Tastes
  
• Fit Flexitarian
• Warm As Pie 
• Katy Rank Lev
  
• My Inner Healthy
• Little Blue Hen
• xox, b
  
• What da Health?
• Project Food Budget 2.0
• A Nice Heart and a White Suit
• Fresh...A New Chapter
• Chandeleah
• Two Eggs Over Easy 
• That's Just Me
• Eat Whole Be Vital
• Four Happy Violets
• Naturally {Un}refined
• Pgh Dad 
  
• yogabeautylife

This is my review of my November food budgeting and goals for December! For more information on this project, please take a look at Emily's Custom Made Blog!


Ok, November was out of control. I knew it was half way through the month but it's been kinda an up in the air month with everything so I just let it go. I am almost embarrassed to post this though.


I spent $719 this month on groceries, eating out, and alcohol/bars. Wow. Yeah.




Early in the month I went to a fun wine event where we had the opportunity to buy some special local (and amazing!) wine but it was pretty pricey. I still have 2 out of 3 of the bottles I bought awaiting special occasions! I went to a fun and delicious prix fixe vegetarian dinner with a friend. I wasn't able to go home for Thanksgiving so I decided to have my own feast - a friend drove all the way here to visit and I showed her a great time!



What could I have done better? I'm honestly not sure! I really enjoyed the dinner parties I went to and hosted and I definitely wouldn't give up the wine or the vegetarian dinner! I did grab Qdoba for lunch ($6 burrito is pretty budget friendly!) a few times and probably spent a little more than I should have out at the bar, so I will try to watch those things in December.

I can already tell by my spending for this month, there is no way I am making the $400 I was shooting for in previous months. For December I think I am going to shoot for $550 total for the month, a happy medium.

How do you save money during the holidays? I looove hosting parties and it can really add up with the wines and cheeses!

Wanna see how everyone else in the project did this week?

Other Bloggers Participating in the Project:

Emily Levenson

Dairy-Free Cooking

Test Kitchen Tuesday
Red Pen Mama
Acquired Tastes

Fit Flexitarian
Warm As Pie 
Katy Rank Lev

My Inner Healthy
Little Blue Hen
xox, b

What da Health?
Project Food Budget 2.0
Ignition Nutrition
A Nice Heart and a White Suit
Because Hobbies Happen
Primary Focus Health Coaching
Chicken Tender
Fresh...A New Chapter
Chandeleah
• Two Eggs Over Easy 
• That's Just Me
  

I have quite a bit of fun over on Twitter! I love finding new people to follow, so I would love it if you would follow me and let me know you found me through my blog and I will be sure to follow back!!

 

I love sharing interesting articles, motivating quotes, pretty and/or funny pictures, and just other generally great stuff!

However, I know some people don't have time for all that twittering or just don't get it, so I thought I would share the best tweets from the month on my blog as well!

Wow, so where did November go? And where did I go? As evidenced by my lack of posting (and that I am posting this on the late date of December 6th) I have been super busy! Lots of working which sure takes a bite out of my blogging time and then really making an effort to hang out with friends left me with almost zero face-to-screen time - but hey, that was one of my goals for November right?

Anyway, what have I been up to? Celebrating my new job, hosting a dinner party (and another one this month!), week time dinner dates with old and new friends, and a whole lot of Thanksgiving fun! November was a great month for me!

And on twitter...


What have you been up to this past month? Any awesome links or tweets that you saw?

Original image source: Grant MacDonald