June 2018 Grocery Challenge

caronc

£33 spent today mainly on exciting things like loo roll, tea bags etc. plus a load of fruit & veg. Total so far for June £175/£230. Apart from milk I shouldn't need anything until the end of next week.

K9sandFelines

£6.72 on food in Quality Save and £8.56 in Morrisons both today.

Nearly two weeks in, and feeling hopeful.

pamsdish

supersaver1000 wrote: »

Made the mushroom carbonara and it was delish. Left out the eggs, but I might try the Alpro cream next time, thank you for the suggestion Save Dosh.

Did paella last night and trying the falafel burgers tonight.

Want to try FoxFace's Samosa jacket potatoes tomorrow.

I've got lots of past their best potatoes and a bag of carrots so would like to do a veg. curry on Friday night - any suggestions for other veggies to add would be appreciated. I guess a bombay potato as well?

Cauliflower, never do a curry without some, I don`t eat rice, also spinach gives some nice green bits.

Mrs_Cheshire

FoxFace wrote: »

Having to log a spend of £5.77p. My eldest boy sprung it on me last minute that he needed a bunch of ingredients for cooking class at school... can't be helped I guess, but I bought the cheapest priced items.

Edit: I just wanted to add... I don't know if anyone else does this, but I am currently gaining a great deal of pleasure in checking my food budget balances. I only use cash, so every time I update my sig, I grab my purse and count what's left... each time it balances perfectly, it is such a nice feeling

Hope you all had a lovely Monday
Fox
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I put my monthly allowance onto a top up debit card as it means I can only spend what's on it. I also keep check via a spreadsheet too.

CRANKY40 wrote: »

I spent £48.16 last week. My shopping day is tomorrow and I'm hoping for a smaller spend this week with maybe a fruit/bread top up later in the week. Like someone else here I had £8 off £40 spend vouchers from W@itrose so I did two shops. One was a pet food shop so it's not tracked here - the cats won't starve this month though :rotfl:

That was me, bet the assistants thought it was odd that I went shopping twice in the space of 30 minutes as I used 2 vouchers per visit to make sure they were used by the end date.

pamsdish wrote: »

Cauliflower, never do a curry without some, I don`t eat rice, also spinach gives some nice green bits.

I love cauliflower in curry, always forget about it though


Had my food shopping delivered today as I got a £15 off £50 shop at Sainsb*ry's, ended up spending £36.33 and I'm also trying a local fruit and veg box delivery so that was delivered today. £20 but was well worth it for the amount in it.

FoxFace

Hi everyone

Just need to log a little spend of £5.70p today, as I needed cake ingredients for my Son's birthday cake on Saturday and also some bananas.

Hope everyone has had a lovely day?
Fox
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Doom_and_Gloom

Since last post we've spent £12.81 on June budget and £24.08 on bulk.

June
£69.22/£150.
£80.78 left.

Bulk
£74.35/£90.
£15.65 left.

supersaver1000

Mrs_Cheshire wrote: »

....I'm also trying a local fruit and veg box delivery so that was delivered today. £20 but was well worth it for the amount in it.

Love that fruit and veg box - is that pies and baps I can see :rotfl::rotfl: Seriously though, that looks like a gorgeous fruit and veg box - they don't deliver to the South West do they?

ps thanks for the cauliflower and spinach tip

JingsMyBucket

Evening everyone. I've been off the thread for a week but I'm diving back into properly tracking. In the last week I've had 4 additional NSDs and spent €105.39 including about €33 in the Ikea Food Shop on Saturday.

TOTALS SO FAR:
€132.23 / €300.00
8 / 10 NSD

My total is more ahead than I would like but I think I can temper it over the next week or so. I'm currently caught between trying to buy more food and just eating down what's in the house before going on holiday next week Wednesday morning. We need fruit and some vegetables so I'll head to Lidl and Delhaize tomorrow. I'll also restock on toilet paper so we'll have some when we return at the end of the month. :rotfl: I'll aim to keep all sets of groceries tomorrow to approximately €35.

Tales17

Love our Fruit & Veg Box!

Originally used to go to the Fruit & Veg shop when it opened locally, unfortunately after a year it had to close due to rent too high and because it was suppose to be a butcher, baker and fruit & veg shop altogether but the shopping centre never found a butcher so they were doomed from the start as they were off from the middle of the centre and people didn't used to venture up that far

He had to go back to just his first shop but as he wanted to keep on supplying the local businesses in the area he had set up, he comes down and delivers a few boxes to local residents too including me!

Much better value and last so much longer! Plus I get exactly what I want rather than a random box of stuff that a lot of the bigger brands supply x

Tales17

So first update for the month:

- £3.89 Graze Box

- £15 Fruit & Veg Box

- £19.99 Carefresh Bedding for hamsters bought the large size which is more cost efficient and will last a few months!

- £3.40 small top up shop at Tesco

- £4 small top up shop at Tesco (I forgot a key ingredient for cooking!)

- £66.51 Click & Collect Order at Tesco - I did really well as I went into the basket and took out about £10 of items I didn't really need which brought the price down!

- £15 alcohol & coffee shop at Tesco by other half

Total is £129.79 so pretty good for halfway through the month! x