June 2020 Grocery Challenge

Narola1976

June has rather gone pear shaped. Spent another £26.92 today, which brings the total to £453.32. A shocking amount, even though I was given £120 towards that, it’s still way over my budget.  My plan is now to not shop again if I can help it until 4 July.  I am not sure that weekly shopping is working for me but the freezers are too small for much. I tend to buy frozen veg only, and we eat low carb for my diabetes which is not very economical. There is enough though to see us through I hope.

ancientmum

I've spent a total of £74.22 this week, £27,37 of that in Sains on wine to take advantage of the 25% off offer.  The reat was £12.02 in Adli and £17.30 in the butchers.  I found out that they have a loyalty scheme so have added another card to the card purse.  

Mrs_Cheshire

Hi all, have loved catching up with all the chat and hearing about all the interesting meals everyone is making. I'm working my way through the freezer, so we're eating some interesting meals. This week I've got some sweet potatoes, so I'm going to make a morocan lamb dish to serve with them (have lamb in the freezer) and the kids can have couscous with theirs (they don't enjoy sweet potatoes). We've got loads of frozen bread rolls so another meal will be chicken burgers in buns to use those up. 
The reverse meal planning is really working for us, just need to not fill the freezers up as we use the food so I can properly clean one out. 

Bluegreen143

We have had one small spend - DH nipped to the shop yesterday to pick up milk as he had given a pint to his mum which left us a little short. He also bought hummus and nice crisps (naughty). I’m not sure how much he spent so I’m not going to count it for now as I’m just tracking this month and setting a proper target in July.

Today’s meals

B - cereal and banana for kids & I (DH had a sausage sandwich with leftover sausages from last night’s dinner 

L - Monkey (the 4yo) has asked for a sausage sandwich too to use up the last one. Bambi (the 1.5yo) and I will have scrambled egg. We are getting 3/4 eggs a day from our chickens... Will add a cup of HM soup each as there’s some needing eaten, and probably some fruit

S - probably cheese/oatcakes/fruit type snacking plate

D - chicken risotto, will use up various veg chopped very small into this! With salad from the garden and kids can have Greek yog to finish if they want 

May bake a carrot cake tray bake with monkey later. It’s a rainy day so will keep him busy (mind you they are both playing in the garden in the rain at the minute!)

pamsdish

£11.14 between 3 shops, all random bits needed.

joedenise

Small shop today of £13.99 between the farm shop and Morries.

£18.53/£250 left - only one shop left as 30 June will be payday (next Tuesday - so will be 1st shop for July!) definitely will be going over but not by as much as I expected earlier
£1.31/£30 left bulk fund
14/15 NSDs - definitely going to make this!

Merlin's_Beard

£149.42/£100.

This is a bit over. Never mind.  Onwards and upwards.

pamsdish

£18.93 in Morries, some y.s. items for future use.

MazzieD

MazzieD said:

With a week to go to month end have just done final bit of shopping as want eggs for breakfast and ran out!.  
£3.88 for eggs and YS gammon steaks, so have come in slightly under budget at £96.83. 

Will roll over £3.17 to July and keep to same budget amount.  Think this is the first month in a long time that I have paid full price for almost everything.  Just haven't seen any YS for anything I would want to buy so might try changing back to a weekly shop or a regular top up as I would like to see if I can bring the budget down without too much pain by getting some bargains!.

Change of plan, will be saving the £3.17 rather than rolling it over.  Budget will remain the same.  Biscuits I got with the coupon are really yummy.  Rarely buy biscuits normally so a real treat!. 

CRANKY40

Hello all, 

I went to Sainsburys yesterday - it's our nearest supermarket and I was fairly sure I wouldn't have to queue. I spent £42.80. A fair bit of that was cat food as it was the same price as Home B's for once and more convenient. I also bought some fruit as I'm making the HT and his best friend a waffle treat box today. They're back at school now and have been so well behaved that I was going to order them a treat but then I looked hard at it and decided I could make the same myself for less. I've just costed it up and taking into account that probably the whole can of squirty cream will vanish or I won't want to use it after they've finished with it, a box with 4 waffles, 4 brownies, 4 scoops of vanilla ice cream (all home made), 2 mini flakes, squirty cream and chocolate sauce has cost me £6.46 to make. It would have been even less if I hadn't been lazy and used a packet mix for the waffles. The price for the equivalent ordered in was £20. The HT will have one waffle and brownie, his 5ft tall size 6 best friend will eat the rest

My online order from Asda comes later today and I've had the email with the cost. £58.88 for 2 weeks shopping. The sausage rolls were out of stock and so was the pizza, but no matter, I have the stuff in to make pizza myself and the sausage rolls weren't needed - they were just a snack for the HT. He can have something else. 

I won't be shopping again before the end of the monh so total spend for June is £241.66.