June 2017 Grocery Challenge

mumofthetwins

First spend of the month for me ... £31.20

Hopefully it should last the week ... Maybe just a loaf that I'll send OH out for

Lisa x

Rachiedabbler70

Thanks to Coxy, LynneJK and Zippy for keeping this going. I continue to find it invaluable. :beer:

I have an annual budget, but for June and July I'm going to try to spend less than £200 each month in anticipation of my eldest coming home from his Uni digs in August and staying until beginning of October, so there will be 3 of us. I'm going to withdraw £50 cash on 1st June and try to get it to last until 8th June - stretch the budget to 8 days for each £50.

I never hold a big store cupboard of food so will need to be very careful however I do have some HM burgers, about half a chicken and a few slices cooked pork in the freezer, some tinned tomatoes, pasta and lots of flours and spices in the cupboard and some beef, ham, cheese, wraps and veggies/ salad items in the fridge.

Breakfasts - cereal or toast and eggs
Lunches - wraps with chicken from freezer or ham and cheese toasties with side salad
Dinner menu roughly:
Monday - cheese steak (need to buy 1 onion)
Tuesday - chicken fajitas (use remaining onion from Monday)
Wednesday - chinese chicken wings and a mix of pork from freezer combined with rice, veg and chinese spices.

Then I can go shopping 1st June.

FoxFace

Weekly shop done, time for me to recluse back into my house for another busy work week... spent 40.86p, leaving £17.86p

£15 into emergency cash, £2.86p into my sealed pot

We were out at a roller derby event most of the day today so I had to be a bit prepared! Decided to make a (vegan obvs) sausage casserole in the slow cooker... the house smelled amazing when we got home and it was very delicious. I have added the recipe to my thread, link in sig.

YORKSHIRELASS

Hi all

Can I join please? I went way overbudget in May so I really need to cut back in June but I am finding it hard work at the moment. There are 4 of us but my boys are 16 and 18 so we are 4 adults really. DS1 is trying to find a new job but currently at home all the time.

I am going to try for £320, 4 weeks at £80. I will need help with this!

PennyGrabber

Hi all,

I made a delish pie today - pretty frugal and so good!

Cheese and leek pie

Hm shortcrust - 60g butter, 60g lard,240g flour
Knob of butter, bit of flour and some milk for white sauce
Grated cheese and mustard
1 leek and 1 onion

I made the pastry and let it chill while making the filling. Fried the leek and onion in butter while making the cheese sauce (made it really thick). Rolled out a top and bottom then put the bottom into my pie maker, layer of leek mix, layer of cheese sauce. Then topped it, shut the pie maker and left it for 20 mins et voila!

Was pretty cheap as I use value cheese, value mustard, value flour, value lard, and I got a pack of 3 ys leeks the other day for 35p. Probably about £1 and did four really decent portions, and it was lush!

Need to get myself organised for June, as I start each month well, then partway through just lose track of what's going on... Determined to make it to the end of a month!

Night all,
PG x

amandaatnumber7

Hello again
Please put me down for $1000 again this month ( 5 weeks @ $200/wk) any surplus in the budget will go towards DS 2 & 3 birthdays that are coming up in July and Aug

t14cy_t

raising the budget from £60 to £80 as foods gone up so much in the last few months. that's for 2 adults including cleaning stuff and toiletries. pet supplies and alcohol are in a separate purse! good luck everyone. x

pinkypig

A 5 week month for me so can you put me drown for £175 please?
Thank you
PP xx

Suffolk_lass

mhagster, I just read your post in May. So sorry to hear of your loss. Someone (over there) suggested a bulk buy card (Costco here) but I have a small stash I use to buy all the cleaning, toiletries and household products (and cans of food) - well anything that doesn't go off. I only buy them when I have coupons or they are on an offer. Not sure if that would work in Melbourne but it might help.

PennyGrabber

Morning everyone!

Not sure what my food plans are for today, as I'm spending the day with oh. Hopefully he'll do us something for lunch, then I have loads of stuff in the fridge that could become a meal without too much hassle - 2 leeks, onions, cheese, lo mashed pot, lo cheese sauce, lo pastry, mushrooms and loads more. Oh, and a pack of ham. Looking forward to creating something from all of that later!!

Not sure if today will be a nsd or not yet. I normally do my shopping on a Sunday ready for the week, but it's half term and the children are at their dad's so I didn't bother. They're back tomorrow evening, so I'm still debating whether to shop today or tomorrow (I'm at work tomorrow, hence the dilemma). Don't need too much, just bread, milk and some f&v.

Have a great bank holiday everyone.

PG x