June 2015 Grocery Challenge

wishus

Hello June GCers!

My first shop is £12.66. Pretty pleased with my YS bargains this morning in Mozzas:

6 tins cat food - £2.39
2 x sardine tins - £0.68
YS new potatoes 1 kg - £0.55
peanut butter - £0.62
2pt milk - £0.89
YS brown loaf 800g - £0.25
YS organic mushrooms 250g - £0.49
YS Warburtons seeded 400g £0.45 (OH loves this bread!)
YS pitta breads with added bran - £0.25
3 courgettes £0.55
YS 5 x orange peppers and 5 x BLACK peppers :shocked: £1.50
white cabbage £0.51
iceberg lettuce - £0.49
YS rocha pears £0.55
bananas £0.60
2 x YS packs dwarf beans £0.50
YS conference pears - £0.55 - two for lunch today as they're getting a bit squished!
YS mango - £0.35
whole cucumber - £0.49

Wouldn't normally make a list, but I'm pretty pleased with the amount of healthy stuff I have managed to grab there. Makes following WW points a lot easier!

mrsd

I am in again this month, £250 please, have come in under budget last 2 months and am feeling pretty pleased with that so have reduced amount again. It shouldnt be such an expensive month, last 2 Ive had to have work done on my car so been quite expensive, though this isnt part of grocery budget it still all comes out of bank account. DD is home but will be working so will have a bit of money so shouldnt need so much from me! DS has also got a summer job which he starts 1 July for couple of months, I dont expect him to pay keep, however, I have told him he needs to save some and be careful what he spends the rest on.
After shopping yesterday DD decided she would go through cupboards and "organise", we have quite a good store cupboard and plenty in the freezer, so have meal planned for the week and expect to do a smaller shop next week too. Will keep you posted on that! She also loves to bake so am expecting some cakes this week That will save on packed lunch treats. I am going to look at recipes on here and see what I can suggest!!

NewShadow

I wasn't going to go out today, but was lured out when the sun came out.

Big mistake -

£40 on meat from the butchers for the freezer (they were doing an offer) - 2 steaks, 2 chicken breasts, 12 sausages, 12 burgers, 1lb diced turkey breast, 1lb mince, 1lb belly pork, 6 drum sticks, 1lb bacon.

£5 on a cooked breakfast and milky coffee

miss_try_to_save

hi all I would love to do this months challenge kind of went off track at last months challenge I am dropping it dramatically this month and trying £350 this is for everything but my ds has decided he wants to get his own food shopping goodness knows why but hey he is 21 it means I only have to do meals for 3 and occasional 4 with veggie dd1 I will still get all essentials i.e bread milk and cook him a Sunday roast I had my first spend today £66 in tes and £8 in ice £74 total but Im going to see how far it can stretch till I buy more besides ob bread and milk etc

Billie-jo

:hello: Hello to everyone and thanks to all who run the thread.

June is a 4 week month for us so £200 please for June. Have managed to do a full months meal plan and tried to use numerous things that we already have in. Doubt very much that the plan will be adhered to fully but at least there are ideas in place.
Good luck everyone and will join you properly on Monday.

savingfortomorrow

currently 30 spent. i need to spend less than about 120 this month as it's a heavy month for out goings.

have loads of stock in the house. milk eggs and super six veg from aldi will be the only out goings if possible. i could easily manage with just fresh veg and milk. eating out of the freezer and cupboards will be a challenge.

lynnejk

joedenise wrote: »

I'm going to be on holiday for part of June so have decided to have a month off - but I'll be back again in July!
Denise

Hope you have a fabulous holiday

cabsy83 wrote: »

... so instead of buying biscuits or cereal bars for them I'm going to make some myself. So far we've tested oaty biscuits, chocolate cup cakes and fairy cakes and they've been quite popular! Going to dig out the recipe books and see what else we can try!

Hiya - have you thought about tray-bakes ? There's loads of recipes if you Google them
Lx

Teddi

I'd like to take part - this month is an odd one though as it is when I do my big quarterly stock up on cleaning stuff\washing powder\loo roll\toiletries\pet foods.


So, I am going to exclude that stuff and just food will be £200 (my tablet won't let me make it red!) for 4 weeks for 2 adults. Clearly we are big food spenders! But, we don't eat grains due to my wifes allergy so as they are so cheap it does make things slightly more pricey. Our veg, milk, eggs, etc comes from a organic delivery company, so no chance of reducing that. Our meat comes from the butchers so I can go for cheaper cuts, cheaper types of fish from the fishmongers, but that is it really.


We don't eat processed foods due to their likelihood of gluten\grain contamination and those are usually the ones on offer at places. Starting as of Monday.

6mmglitterthing

I would like to start this month for the grocery challenge. I am going to give myself £150 as I have a night out planned with my friends, but other than that it should be a good month. We do have a stocked fridge atm for the weekend so I will start this on 1st June.

NewShadow

Finally finished off my shopping list - got eggs, bean sprouts, food bags... and pears, cherries, grapes, mushrooms, peppers, mangos, sharon fruit... (and two lovely tops for work)

£17 (excluding tops)