June 2021 Grocery Challenge

goldfinches

@PipneyJane -  I can vouch for both of these recipes Cucumber, za’atar and chopped lemon salad - Ottolenghi Books (equator-test.com) and Feta & Strawberry Salad - Dairy Diary or halfway down this page is Ottolenghi's quick pickled cucumber recipe which is delicious with all sorts of things Satay skewers, spicy sweet potatoes, rice paper rolls: Yotam Ottolenghi’s party recipes | Food | The Guardian.
Let us know what you decide and how it works out, goldfinches.

boultdj

Last shop of the month for me, £19.01 spent taking me up to £180.09/ £150.00, so quite a bit over, but I've stocked up on some of the tinned stuff I've not been able to get for a while.
Must try harder and remember to meal plan. 

Sallyp2

Sallyp2 said:

Hello, Sunday job tallying up the spends. Aldi £14.97 / JS £1.40 / Farm Shop £8.97 / JS £77.03 / M&S £69.85 / Milkman £11.85
Spends total = £184.07
Calling June spend now. Its a whopping £581.67 / £231.67 over budget. I've actually spent more than in May! 

Sallyp2

Fiona236 said:

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

Well done you. Excellent. 41p overspend would be a miracle for me LOL

Sallyp2

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.

Bless you. Sounds crazy!
Hope you sell the bungalow by Wednesday - you should be able to complete. I know lots of people are pushing through sales. You have until 23.59 Wednesday 

GSDMum

All meals were planned for the rest of the month with ingredients already to hand, I'd manage to leave £24 for milk and fruit/veg supplies to carry us through to 1st July. I really was set to hit my budget this month! 

Then I was carted off to hospital because of a travelling kidney stone, while in hospital Hubby took the reins and went shopping where he spent £30.54 - not a lot but we're £6.34 over which is still a brilliant result for us. 

July is going to be interesting, our July budget will start with a Tesco delivery tomorrow. There're a lot of things we need, and my order is over 75% of my July budget. Just got to pace ourselves  

pamsdish

joedenise said:

@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

Saving this to browse later as my cucumber plants in the greenhouse are starting to produce.

PipneyJane

joedenise said:

@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

Thanks @joedenise, I’ll have a browse.

I have another, small, spend to declare:  £1.10 spent in the c0-0p for 2 large courgettes.  They were a spur of the moment purchase but, together with the courgette from yesterday’s L!dl veg box, I’ve now made a double quantity of Nigella Lawson’s courgette cake, which should last us the week.

This brings my total to £126.00/£144.20, leaving £18.20 for the rest of the month.

- Pip

PipneyJane

GSDMum said:

All meals were planned for the rest of the month with ingredients already to hand, I'd manage to leave £24 for milk and fruit/veg supplies to carry us through to 1st July. I really was set to hit my budget this month! 

Then I was carted off to hospital because of a travelling kidney stone, while in hospital Hubby took the reins and went shopping where he spent £30.54 - not a lot but we're £6.34 over which is still a brilliant result for us. 

July is going to be interesting, our July budget will start with a Tesco delivery tomorrow. There're a lot of things we need, and my order is over 75% of my July budget. Just got to pace ourselves  

@GSDMum - ouch!  Hope you feel better soon.

- Pip

K9sandFelines

Hi sorry I've not been around. HL and WL just gets so busy.
I'm somewhere on the £236 figure so a bit under. .Hopefully I can drop this soon, but its DD1s birthday next month; so maybe not yet.
My new month started today; as it's payday today, so off to the July thread and will update sig asap.