June 2021 Grocery Challenge

GSDMum

Happy_Sloth said:

Hmmmm so i appear to have failed! 

I put myself down for a £300 budget for this month because i didn't think i needed that much.  I've just done my Morrisons order and thats come in at £250 ... i've already spent £40 and i my veg boxes come in at £70.  

Dang that means i'm over budget already... ... Gosh it's only the 3rd! crikey .... Do i try and slim my Morrisons order down or do i suck it up and accept im way over this month  

Snap, it appears I've done more or less the same.
Perhaps walk away and come back to your order in a few hours to see if there's a change of plan for some products. Or as you say, suck it up knowing you might not need to make those tempting visits to the shops.

Fiona236

Sallyp2 said:

Spent £20.01
Aldi £14.41 / Iceland £5.60. Had to pop into Iceland to get some more 'Funny Feet'. They are back from the 80's but only available in Iceland. They are smaller than I remember ... or perhaps I need to shrink

They are doing Parma violet lollies too that are meant to be lovely

Fiona236

I thought £50 a week would be more than doable for us but I saw felix food all went up by 50p and im wondering if groceries are following suit. I hardly got anything for my 20 odd pound the other day. 

Sallyp2

Fiona236 said:

I thought £50 a week would be more than doable for us but I saw felix food all went up by 50p and im wondering if groceries are following suit. I hardly got anything for my 20 odd pound the other day. 

Groceries are going up and / or pack sizes decreasing.
Price increase very noticeable in JS recently 

MissRikkiC

Happy_Sloth said:

Hmmmm so i appear to have failed! 

I put myself down for a £300 budget for this month because i didn't think i needed that much.  I've just done my Morrisons order and thats come in at £250 ... i've already spent £40 and i my veg boxes come in at £70.  

Dang that means i'm over budget already... ... Gosh it's only the 3rd! crikey .... Do i try and slim my Morrisons order down or do i suck it up and accept im way over this month  

Can you amend the order for anything you don’t ‘need’ for whatever meals you might have planned? If you haven’t planned meals could you plan a couple of the same week on week so that you either bulk buy/cook or use cheaper ingredient meals? 

I think better to still try and be mindful even if you’re not within the initially target you set but maybe have a ceiling point that after your big shop now, you mustn’t go over? 

Whatever you chose to do. Don’t be hard on yourself, this stuff isn’t always easy. It just seems it initially!

thriftwizard

Well, my "under £50" non-perishables trip to L!dls came in at £72.37, needless to say. But on the bright side - they did have Marmite! And chickpeas, which they often don't. So the store cupboard is well-stocked. I can't spend too much at the market tomorrow because I forgot to go to the cash machine, so have a limited supply of the readies at my disposal. But still need to go to the butchers & the bakery later on too...

goldfinches

Aargh, there's clearly something in the water, I've spent more money too!
I spent £4.80 at Mr T on eggs, frozen fruit, olives and satsumas and does anyone else hate the way they show the clubcard prices discount on the receipts? I find them listing the discount(s) as a separate section makes it much more difficult to tot up how much one has actually spent when I'm trying to sort out which pot(s) the various items should come off.
Then I spent £3.65 at M*rks on milk and tomatoes which brings my total to £24.08/£120 and my daily average to £8.03.

Fiona236

Ive spent £7.99 and £13.05 from the £21.24 I had .
£50 a week challenge, spent £49.80
So this week im left with 20p. 
Roll on Tuesday. 

Sallyp2

Interesting weekly shop this week. Much closer to budget though.
Spends: £land £7 / Aldi £27.93 / Asda £22.70 / Sainsburys £24.68 = £82.31
This week I've tallied what I spent on bunnies £6 and cleaning/laundry £9.73 = £15.73 non food. So it makes the food spend £66.58, which when added to the top up shop Wednesday = £86.59. In total this week I've spent £102.32. Ideally I need EVERYTHING for around £80-85 p/w
I meal planned again, but this week ONLY brought what I needed e.g. 1 tin kidney beans, 2 tins of chopped tomatoes etc
I am going to try really hard to eliminate / minimise the top up shop mid week. Also used cash this week, until I ran out of cash to pay for sainsburys, but I would have had enough cash if I hadn't done the mid week shop!

Sallyp2

Fiona236 said:

I thought £50 a week would be more than doable for us but I saw felix food all went up by 50p and im wondering if groceries are following suit. I hardly got anything for my 20 odd pound the other day. 

I noted today that the Asda sweet & sour sauce in a jar was 59p according to the shelf price sticker. On getting home and adding up my receipts, the price I was charged was 80p. This means an increase of 21p or a whopping 35%. Lots of price increases like that popping up.