June 2022 Grocery Challenge

MissRikkiC

Happy birthday @Soontobeoap Enjoy the extra pennies, even if they are being saved 😅

Blackcats

Happy birthday soontobeoap.  Glad you had a lovely day.  

Greying_Pilgrim

Happy Birthday Soontobeoap - glad you had a good day.

20p spend to own up to.  Went to look for bargains whilst LG was at their club.  Thin on the ground tonight 🙁 But the fruit and veg discounts in MrS were down to 20p for 'whatever'.  Felt a bit sorry for the lad doing the stickering as a couple of blokes were very determined to hoover stuff up..... but I got some satsumas (5 in the net I think), and was happy with that.  There was some bread YS'd and I did um & ahh about a couple of products, but decided that we had sufficient bread, and it wasn't going to 'make a meal' eg not baps for burgers or posh seedy bread for a picnic or something.

The mulligatawny soup was made in the PC.  I made it all in one - which busted a myth for me, as there was a stock cube and tomatoes in the recipe, both of which are supposed to inhibit the cooking of lentils.  I don't know if it was because it was in a PC, but there was no issue and the soup cooked fine in 4 minutes at full power and natural de-pressure.  I was interested to test it out as on the BBC website of cheap recipes, I think it is Dr Rupy Aujla who has contributed a 'cupboard standby' lentil dhal mix - with the stock cube ready rubbed into the dry lentils - so I'll be trying that next.  

Oh, and darling DH gave me back the coinage that I'd outlayed for his stuff yesterday, so I reduced my expenditure in my signature accordingly.  

**Edit: noticed last night that the fruit I got from MrS are in fact Tangerines, and there are 6 of them in the net.  Very pleased with my bargain End of Edit**

Greying X

wishus

Back in the office tomorrow, so stocked up on more bread and some yoghurts for overnight oats, plus more tomatoes, wonky potatoes and asparagus from the Super 6. £3.50.

Noticed my All-day now has self-service checkouts (I know the tills are a challenge, but no need to make that an excuse to employ fewer people grrr), plus there are more branded items than own brand visible on the main shelves. Hey All-day - that's not your USP, and I don't like it! No basic bread, and the basic yoghurt - which has been 45p for years, is still 45p but has a little 69p crossed out next to it as if 45p is the offer price. So I imagine that will be 69p soon...

DizzyMissIzzy

Happy birthday @Soontobeoap I’m glad you enjoyed your birthday 

It was my birthday on Thursday so my family treated me to a wonderful picnic, and on Friday there was a barbecue so another NSD.
 
I’ve been using up some of my cupboards and freezer stuff so not spent anything until today. My friend gave me a lift down to T@sc0 and I spent £53.16! It was on a few non food items (deodorant, tissues, shampoo etc) but the bulk of the shopping was restock for cupboards along with lacto free milk, porridge, bread, frozen fruit, tinned fish, some fresh fruit, yoghurts and quiche. Hopefully this should last me for a couple of weeks now.

So now got £126.84 left, out of my original £180 for June

katkin

Many happy returns @Soontobeoap

Reporting spend from my £275 budget this month. 

Tesco online shop - £110.33.  This is my big delivered shop of the month to stock up the freezer, cupboards and heavy items.

Morrisons - £22.15. For fresh items, fruit, veg and bargains / yellow sticker items if I can get them. Also anything cheaper than Tesco.

Milk delivery - £4.42 for 4 litres of semi skimmed. This is about double the price of the supermarket and it will likely have to go. I really like having doorstep delivered milk and supporting a local business and jobs, but I need to make cuts. It's going to have to go in July so I can reduce this budget further.

Total spend - £136.90
Balance - £138.10

I have an extra 5 folk visiting to cater for this weekend, which means extra spend, some of this I will take from our leisure/treats budget.

Soontobeoap

Just popped by to thank you all for your lovely messages.
Happy birthday @DizzyMissIzzy.
Have been reading all of your shopping hauls and a common theme seems to be the prices rising. Its not just by a few pence either. You guys are inspirational with the bargains you find and what you can create with simple ingredients. I am learning every day. 

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning!

Spends to confess.

I can't believe that I have just spent £4.99 on 18 rolls of loo paper in HB.........

Last time I bought some (which was February, because I couldn't have afforded any in the 'lean' quarter), it was at least £1.20 cheaper per pack........

HB appear to have stopped stocking the coffee I buy, and they didn't have any type of 'raw' pulses - which may be a seasonal thing, but they've always had them in the summer before.

£8.77 in total.

Greying X

FrugalHedonist

A no spend for me today but I have finally done a quick tot up of the budget so far and I have already spent £45.25/£100 - eek, I do have a pretty well stocked pantry of dried goods so will be utilsing those

I listen to radio 4 you and yours yesterday and it was a phone in on rising food prices and it was interesting - at one point they they mentioned that lots of food is going up and some is going down - I wonder if anyone has noticed anything reducing in price - I'm quite happy to change aspects of my diet to reduce costs but I feel that perhaps a lot of the cheaper products are more of the 'snack' variety rather than things you can make a square meal from. Although I will keep my eyes peeled 

SausageDogSandwich

Happy birthday @DizzyMissIzzy

Since I last posted I have spent £1.90 on tonic water and ys potato salad. Also has tesc0 delivered on Monday night which came to £45.66. We don’t have a lot of meat anymore but DH wanted pulled pork so the shop included a 2kg joint, fruit, veg, milk, a few toiletries, baked beans, kidney beans, chopped tomatoes, rice, noodles, diet cola, a few frozen items and I can’t remember what else. Bring my total so far to £57.14/£150 spent. Which wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t need to get loo roll in the next few days and the fruit will have run out by Sunday