June 2021 Grocery Challenge

Suffolk_lass

Staying clear of temptation, I am not shopping this week. We have milk and eggs delivered and salad crops in the garden. I will need to shop in the next week as I am cooking the monthly lunch club lunch next Friday. Anyway my only spend is the weekly £6.65 to the milkman

boultdj

Yesterday's shop took me over, now at £161.08/£150.   I must try harder.

Fiona236

Just went over by 41p this week, yay me ! 
£50.41/£50

thriftwizard

Oh dear, I really have lost the plot now! I have no clue how much I spent at the market this morning... £42-odd at the supermarket yesterday, and roughly £48 at the market, from memory, which would take me very slightly over. Not wild guesses, but not good enough! My excuse is that I'm trading this weekend for the first time since the pandemic began, but at the same time, we suddenly have to empty Mum's bungalow before next Wednesday, having had a very good offer from a cash buyer who needs to complete before the end of the stamp duty holiday, having had a chain crash at the last moment & with a new job starting in July. The sale of the bungalow had also fallen through, for the same reason, a few weeks ago. So all the paperwork, surveys, searches etc. are ready to roll & it can technically be done, but we thought we had a few weeks to clear her belongings... aaaargh! Major panic all round. So I'll be clocking up a fair bit of mileage & hard work over the next few days, and the budget will have to take a back seat now until we're into July.

PipneyJane

thriftwizard said:

Oh dear, I really have lost the plot now! I have no clue how much I spent at the market this morning... £42-odd at the supermarket yesterday, and roughly £48 at the market, from memory, which would take me very slightly over. Not wild guesses, but not good enough! My excuse is that I'm trading this weekend for the first time since the pandemic began, but at the same time, we suddenly have to empty Mum's bungalow before next Wednesday, having had a very good offer from a cash buyer who needs to complete before the end of the stamp duty holiday, having had a chain crash at the last moment & with a new job starting in July. The sale of the bungalow had also fallen through, for the same reason, a few weeks ago. So all the paperwork, surveys, searches etc. are ready to roll & it can technically be done, but we thought we had a few weeks to clear her belongings... aaaargh! Major panic all round. So I'll be clocking up a fair bit of mileage & hard work over the next few days, and the budget will have to take a back seat now until we're into July.

Good luck with your mum’s bungalow. From bitter experience, I can recommend that you don’t try to sort through things, just pack everything and go through it later, aiming for a box a day.

- Pip

thriftwizard

Thanks, Pip, that's exactly what I'm doing! No choice, though - van emptied & packed up with stall & stock for tomorrow, half of Mum's stuff installed in the conservatory! Rinse & repeat in reverse tomorrow evening...

PipneyJane

Good luck with the market today, @thriftwizard.  Hope you get lots of trade.

I have a shop to declare from yesterday.  We were heading home from running some errands and I was feeling totally uninspired about food, so we dropped into L!dl to find something for lunch.  £11.71 spent, which included £2.29 on a quiche, £1.39 on a YS lump of steak and £1.50 on a F&V box.  

The veg box was stuffed with items:  3 packets of Jersey royal potatoes, rocket, a box of grapes, 5 satsumas, a cauliflower, a large box of mushrooms plus another tray of three large mushrooms, a bunch of spring onions, a courgette, one of those pots of growing coriander, and a broken cucumber.  

What on earth do I do with the cucumber?  (I never buy them.).

We had the quiche for lunch with some of the rocket.  The lump of steak, some of the potatoes and the rest of the rocket became a salad for dinner.   The cauliflower and more potatoes will become aloo gobi today.

The above brings our total spend for June to £124.90/£144.40, leaving £19.50 for the remainder of the month.

- Pip

joedenise

@PipneyJane I love cucumber.  You might like some of the ideas from this website:  https://www.tablespoon.com/meals/things-to-do-with-a-cucumber

ancientmum

My total grocery spend this week came to £21.93.  There were several things I had run low on: salt, washing up liquid, and instant coffee, and I treated  myself to a bar of Aldi posh chocolate.  I spent £4.60 at the market stall on peaches, satsumas and Isle of Wight tomatoes, which are not cheap  but delicious and fairly local.
I'm carrying on until the last day of June before declaring the total for the month.

Tightpants24

I think I may have to write off June as I have had DS birthday and DD back from uni.  Plus I have been poorly so DH took over the shopping and bought loads of treats due to lack of meal plan.  I am aiming to get a grip on July instead.