June 2021 Grocery Challenge

Esthermate

4 June to 4 July. £100.

GSDMum

Sallyp2 said:

PipneyJane said:

GSDMum said:

The fruit and veg stall didn't disappoint for both quality and taste, though the two packets (labelled Co Op) of doughnut-peaches I bought, wasn't brilliant. When released from their packaging, deterioration was clear. Goes to show that we need a serious rethink about plastic packaging.

Also, on the subject of doughnut peaches, when did they become “a thing”?  I don’t recall seeing them until a year or so ago.  I scored 2 in my L!dl F&V box last weekend; nice and juicy with small stones, but nothing special.  (I love fresh peaches, but don’t understand why this variety is suddenly everywhere.)

Hello
GSDMum, I cannot believe the market stall was reselling Co-op fruit. That shows they brought sub standard produce from the supplier that wasn't up to Co-op specification

Pip, you have M&S to thank for donut peaches. They "designed" them years ago with a stone fruit supplier as a premium item. After a few years they've become the norm. 

Hi Pip and Sally, think we discovered the donut-peaches in Spain some 20ish years ago,  just thought they were a 'Spanish thing'. If you can get lovely juicy ones, they are delicious (and easier, less messy, to eat  ).

I just thought the Co Op packaged donut-peaches were an over supply issue - never thought it was because the product was sub-standard.  I live and learn    Goes to show how naive I am! 

MissRikkiC

Another shop yesterday but nothing that I didn’t ‘need’ although I forgot DW tabs! 22.51 on things to make up meals for the week although I’m not sure I like how much that is for such a small amount of things! Literally items like cheese, fruit, little extra veg and I still didn’t get cucumber or Tahini which I actually wanted (or DW tabs!)  Anyway, I’ll still need those later this week but for the time being have plans for meals this week and lunch supplies too! 

Also thanks to whoever mention Olio ... I’d not heard of it and have someone in my village who gets Friday and Saturday hauls which meant I have a lovely green soup for work this week and some sesame bagels for breakfast! 

Happy Sunday everyone

Sallyp2

GSDMum said:

Sallyp2 said:

PipneyJane said:

GSDMum said:

The fruit and veg stall didn't disappoint for both quality and taste, though the two packets (labelled Co Op) of doughnut-peaches I bought, wasn't brilliant. When released from their packaging, deterioration was clear. Goes to show that we need a serious rethink about plastic packaging.

Also, on the subject of doughnut peaches, when did they become “a thing”?  I don’t recall seeing them until a year or so ago.  I scored 2 in my L!dl F&V box last weekend; nice and juicy with small stones, but nothing special.  (I love fresh peaches, but don’t understand why this variety is suddenly everywhere.)

Hello
GSDMum, I cannot believe the market stall was reselling Co-op fruit. That shows they brought sub standard produce from the supplier that wasn't up to Co-op specification

Pip, you have M&S to thank for donut peaches. They "designed" them years ago with a stone fruit supplier as a premium item. After a few years they've become the norm. 

Hi Pip and Sally, think we discovered the donut-peaches in Spain some 20ish years ago,  just thought they were a 'Spanish thing'. If you can get lovely juicy ones, they are delicious (and easier, less messy, to eat  ).

I just thought the Co Op packaged donut-peaches were an over supply issue - never thought it was because the product was sub-standard.  I live and learn    Goes to show how naive I am! 

Hello, I was in M&S fruit & veg dept head office years ago. M&S launched them around 2000/2001. They were quite new and a small seller. They've been going for years. M&S brought them to the UK, but nowadays everyone does everything much faster.
Yeah the co-op peaches for sale on the market will have been sub-standard and will have failed quality control. Sorry

taka

Sallyp2 said:

I have stopped buying weekly & monthly magazines, they are just so expensive nowadays and generally full of badly written guff about people I've never heard from those awful celeb TV shows. I stopped buying a Saturday newspaper after they just wrote the same stuff about Brexit & Covid week on week. Saved me some money, reduced my paper environment trail and gave me more free time.

If you do ever what to read magazines / the papers you may be able to access most of them online via your library for free. Mine has access to overdrive and pressreader which give me a huge number of options for local / national (and even a few international!) papers / huge numbers of mags (as well as ebooks etc).

Still plodding along with my yearly challenge. £811.15 out of £2k budget so on target so far. 😁 I allow £30/month for bulk/big shops (£27.50 for Feb) and £4.50 per day otherwise. I have spent £26.29 out of a max of £165 for June. I'm trying to keep a bit aside for later in the year if I can as prices seem to be rising quite noticably and I don't see this changing anytime soon.

FoxFace

Hi everyone, I hope you are all enjoying your weekend

Coming in with spends of £19.31p yesterday, as we had a day out, and also decided to buy stuff to make burgers. I had planned on making curry but the weather was far too hot for that! It was with budget though, so all fine

Also £50.31p today for the week's groceries. Went to T3sco and usually use the self scanner, but the handset died halfway around so I had to be really careful, as I only take the "grocery account" debit card now. I had also forgotten my shopping list, but somehow managed to come home with everything *and* stay well within budget. £36.09p left in account.

Also as someone mentioned earlier, I have definitely noticed an increase cost for a lot of products. It is definitely a good time to be aware of what you are spending! I'm happy with how my budget is going, but it is hard work and I know I would be spending triple the amount if I wasn't being so careful!

boultdj

And I'm off! £42.08 between Mr T and L.

Finstickle

A couple of spends for me over the weekend.
£6.63 at a service station on the way to the In-Laws - the result of having not shopped on Friday, no bread/milk for breakfast so ended up buying something to eat on the way.
Also did a Tesco shop yesterday for £88.09 - £33 of which was alcohol - really does make a difference to the total.
£123.58/£561.00
I'm going to try and delay the needed musclefood order a few days and eat up the random bits and bobs in the freezer and get the meat delivered towards the end of the week..

Sallyp2

Few recent spends. £12.40 JS and £11 market fish van = £23.40
Grand total £125.72 / £350
Should I include the cheeky £2 white magnum brought yesterday as part of grocery spend?

Sallyp2

Have messed up my totals. I need to remove the bunnies from our spends and give them a separate purse. Its the only way to make me sane!!!!!
So after rejigging. New total grocery spend month to date is £117.43