June 2021 Grocery Challenge

Sallyp2

Fiona236 said:

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. 

Well done on spending to budget this week.
What ya gonna do with the surplus 20p? In days gone by you could have gone to the corner shop and got a massive bag of fab sweets. I remember having a £1 pocket money and it buying sweets, crisps, Bunty and I still had change lol

thriftwizard

Stop the world, I want to get off; it's becoming too expensive! £90 spent today, £60 at the market - fish, cheese, fruit & veg, things from the health food stall - and £30 between the butchers, which was basically one large chicken and a little bit of bacon, and the bakers. OK, there were some cheese & chive scones and a large slice of cake bought at the market; the cake was split between four of us, and the scones will last the family all weekend. I'm perfectly capable of making my own cake & scones but am going flat out just now between the allotment and my small business, so don't feel all that guilty. Plus we are 6 all weekend and 8 at times (outdoors, obviously) however the budget has taken a battering early in the month again. Mind you, some of the fish bought today has been frozen for future reference; it was lovely natural smoked haddock (i.e. not dyed yellow, just tinged by the smoking process) so we had kedgeree tonight and the frozen portion will go into a fish pie later in the month.

Also I bought a large bag of beautiful fresh French cherries for £3; I've eaten a fair number as they're absolutely gorgeous, some will be made into ice-cream on Sunday, and maybe a clafoutis too, and the rest frozen or made into jam - cherry jam being one of OH's favourites. I will still need to top up the milk & cream supply tomorrow, but shouldn't need too much else until next Thursday/Friday.

Happy_Sloth

ok so i have stripped back the morrisons shop it's now £213.26

• £ 213.26 Morrisons 
• £8.45 Asda 
• £21.39 Asda 
• £17.62 Asda 
• £73 Veg boxes 
• £20.47 Asda 

Brings me to £354.19   £54.19 over budget and it's only the the 5th. 

Now in my defence the £21.39 shop did include 6 reduced whole chickens! i Last night i also managed to get my hands on some 4x 10p loaves of bread and 4x packets of the pre-chopped carrot and swead for 5p a bag which i've frozen.   So we won't starve.  
We should not need anything else other than some milk for the rest of the month. 

I guess managing to get by on £200 for last month had it's downside and i underestimated how many gaps i had in my food cupboard.   I suppose as long as i manage to come in at last than £400 for the month thats not too bad for 3 adults and 3 dogs. 

Mrs_Cheshire

Hi all, I've also had a spendier start to the month than usual. currently at £112.57/£350. I need to do a meal plan as we have plenty in the store cupboard and freezer. 

Fiona236

Sallyp2 said:

Fiona236 said:

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. 

Well done on spending to budget this week.
What ya gonna do with the surplus 20p? In days gone by you could have gone to the corner shop and got a massive bag of fab sweets. I remember having a £1 pocket money and it buying sweets, crisps, Bunty and I still had change lol

I loved the bunty! Theres no comics like that these days and the magazines they want are a fiver a time ! 
I'll have to have a think about the 20p, decisions decisions! 

Money_Choices

Hi
On 2 June I spent £35.29  at A%da which makes my spending so far £35.29/£120.
MissRkkiC my Dad used to stew Rhurbard with chopped oranges which gave the dish a natural sweetness.

Money Choices

GSDMum

Morning everyone, Happy Sunday!

Visited Daventry's street market last Friday for the 1st time. Friday was a showery day; and typically it rained while we were there. Was disappointed with the quantity of stalls; though the two stalls I visited sold quality goods. In any case; I wasn't in the mood to be 'tempted' nor for getting drenched.

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.

The other stall I visited (sorry for going off topic) sold fabrics from rolls. A rarity these days and I couldn't resist visiting. I've got this white linen top that I've had for years, it's my 'go-too' top for feeling comfortable and confident, unfortunately the top has seen better days. The style of the top isn't complicated, so I think I can make a pattern from it. I bought 2 metres of linen fabric, plus I was given a further half a metre cos it was the end of the roll. £15 for 2.5 metres of white 100% linen; the material is lovely and soft too. Now I've got this grand idea running through my head of having dozens of linen tops in all colours, and for all occasions 

Cost of the fruit and veg = £17.60. Leaving £121.60 for the rest of the month for more fruit and veg, plus milk.

Apologies for rambling - somehow writing clarifies thoughts and reaffirms my commitment to being frugal. 

PipneyJane

GSDMum said:

Morning everyone, Happy Sunday!

Visited Daventry's street market last Friday for the 1st time. Friday was a showery day; and typically it rained while we were there. Was disappointed with the quantity of stalls; though the two stalls I visited sold quality goods. In any case; I wasn't in the mood to be 'tempted' nor for getting drenched.

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.

The other stall I visited (sorry for going off topic) sold fabrics from rolls. A rarity these days and I couldn't resist visiting. I've got this white linen top that I've had for years, it's my 'go-too' top for feeling comfortable and confident, unfortunately the top has seen better days. The style of the top isn't complicated, so I think I can make a pattern from it. I bought 2 metres of linen fabric, plus I was given a further half a metre cos it was the end of the roll. £15 for 2.5 metres of white 100% linen; the material is lovely and soft too. Now I've got this grand idea running through my head of having dozens of linen tops in all colours, and for all occasions 

Cost of the fruit and veg = £17.60. Leaving £121.60 for the rest of the month for more fruit and veg, plus milk.

Apologies for rambling - somehow writing clarifies thoughts and reaffirms my commitment to being frugal. 

Don’t apologise for going off topic, @GSDMum.  Congratulations for finding 100% pure linen in a market!  I used to love visiting the fabric stalls at the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne.  Never seen one here.

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.)

I have two shops to declare from yesterday:  £21.45 in L!dl and £52.09 in MrT’s.  Learned one lesson in L!dl:  if you get a 50%-off “spin-to-win” voucher on their L!dl-Plus app, it only applies to one iteration of the product, not all of them.  We got one for hand-wash, so I picked up two different scents of the same product.  Only the first got the voucher applied to it.  Lessoned learned for 32p.  (Normally, I just refill our existing bottles with cheap bath foam, but I figured we could do with some more pump action bottles.)

The shop at MrT’s included a £8 on cider and £3.75 on one of their “Indian takeaway meals for 2” (half price with Clubcard).  It also had several stock-ups for the pantry: baked beans, tinned sweetcorn, squash, bulgar wheat, raisins, plus batteries for the kitchen scales. 

Once you add in the 6p change for the coin jar, the above spend brings our June total to £73.60/£144.20, leaving £70.60 for the rest of the month.

- Pip

Sallyp2

Fiona236 said:

Sallyp2 said:

Fiona236 said:

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. 

Well done on spending to budget this week.
What ya gonna do with the surplus 20p? In days gone by you could have gone to the corner shop and got a massive bag of fab sweets. I remember having a £1 pocket money and it buying sweets, crisps, Bunty and I still had change lol

I loved the bunty! Theres no comics like that these days and the magazines they want are a fiver a time ! 
I'll have to have a think about the 20p, decisions decisions! 

Inflation! I looked at eBay. People are selling 20p/40p weekly editions of Bunty for ££££'s. Quite shocking how times have changed.
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. 
Waitrose used to give a free newspaper with the Wrose card, but that is being phased out. Such a shame as it was a nice perk

Sallyp2

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.