June 2018 Grocery Challenge

Chloris

Hello All.
Last weekly shop of the month. I did wonder whether to put it off until Sunday or to count it as next month anyway. I even thought I could divide it into two and put a bit in each month! Desperate measures. But I thought I would keep it straight forward, Thursday is shopping day and it will even itself out eventually and I will get better at this.
So final June total of £563.95, that is £113.95 over budget. Definitely could do better. And in the spirit of better, I have done a stock take of the freezer and have the list with my shopping list. I have been checking the freezer special offers in the shop against my stocktake which has given me a lot more confidence to walk straight past. I have also checked stocks of dried beans etc and have meal planned around that. So tarka daal this week to use the split yellow peas and chestnut and sage soup next week to use the chestnuts! I will do better. X

Congratulations to everyone finishing under, on or above. We gave it a shot! X

Tales17

Update for this week but there will still be a couple of days of stuff to add next week I think!

- Graze Box £3.89

- Fruit & Veg box £15

- Meat Delivery £85.97

- Tesco £2.84

- Amazon £6.19 Tick Spray (neighbour's little boy has caught lyme's disease! Luckily caught in time but still scary and put all the local mums on alert!)

Total for month is £468.84, there is still a £90 shop that I ordered last night to collect today but I will add that in on my next update, hoping to be just under budget this month and still under budget year to date, I think next year will be interesting once I analyse where I can cut down things!

Ginmonster

Last spend of the month for me £10.06 on more fruit (eating loads in this lovely weather), peas, ice lollies and an essential freezer bag to get the lollies home unmelted! This means I have scraped in under budget for the month. Hooray!

95.93/100

Chloris

beenthere_donethat wrote: »

Chestnut and sage soup sounds lovely!

I'll let you know how it turns out! X

JingsMyBucket

Morning all, just jumping in to record a spend that was on Thursday for €15.80 for a large duck breast. I have more to report as I bought more stuff yesterday, but I'll do that later tonight when I tally everything and close out the month for good.

Have a good day all!

pamsdish

Called into Lidl for salad stock and another gammon joint, dated end of July really enjoyed the one I bought earlier in week with salad, total of £8.52 spent so wrapping up £6 under for the month.

Doom_and_Gloom

Since last post we have spent £13.87 of June budget and £2.97 on bulk (this was a 5kg bag of sugar that will last about 9 months so I'm not angry to go over the bulk budget slightly for it).

June
£149.42/£150.
£0.58 left.

Bulk
£91.04/£90.
£1.04 over.

So pretty much on budget overall. I'm calling for June.

K9sandFelines

£8.09 spent today on some end of month reductions at work, YS fruit and veg, crisps and some Drumstick choos. Can't believe work actually has some vegan sweets in so making the most of them whilst in as they are then 90p, as opposed to a £1 everywhere else.

I can't officially declare yet, as i am sure i am missing a Morrisons receipt from yesterday.

JingsMyBucket

Hello everyone! I hope you're all having a nice Sunday. @Hopeless Case, excellent work coming in so low under budget, especially for your first month. I think may be the last person declaring for June. I just tallied

FINAL TOTALS:
€301.86 / €300.00
16 / 10 NSD

I'm just barely over, gosh darn it! That wouldn't have happened if I didn't have to buy laundry detergent for our AirBnB last week. That alone cost €10.99. And you betcha that we brought it back home with us. It'll go into the stock cupboard so we'll have even more detergent at this rate and probably won't have to buy any until September or so. Nonetheless, I'm quite happy about how the totals shook out. Yesterday and Friday I loaded up on items at M & S food in France (cheddar, sausages, oat cakes, salmon, etc) and I'm glad I was able to get a nice duck breast on Thursday as well. That said, I did do some other shopping that doesn't get counted in the GC budget. I'll have to tighten my overall household budget belt this coming month. See you on the July thread!

YorksLass

Declaring for June with 19/28 NSDs and a slight overspend of £2.07 but I'm happy with that as much of what I bought during last week is either in the freezer or fridge and will give us a good start to July.

On Thursday I had to pick up DH's repeat prescription and take it into the pharmacy in Sainsburys so I did my Friday shop a day early while I was waiting for the script to be filled. Plus I have finally bought a shopping trolley and of course that had to be road-tested. :rotfl:

Well done to those coming in on or under budget :beer: and commiserations to anyone who didn't quite make it. There's always next month!