June 2022 Grocery Challenge

thriftwizard

Aaargh, what's happened? Went to update my grocery total, and my signature's showing as somewhere in March! Off to rootle round & see whether I can retrieve the correct figure from somewhere, then add the £113-odd that the Offspring & I have spent between us over the last week.

pamsdish

Looks like we all went back to March, I have a spreadsheet so will update in 2 weeks, usually must add in Amas0n spends by end of the month

Grumpelstiltskin

Ginmonster I noticed today that Lidl have low sugar Granola in stock.

CynicalPinnacle

We're almost at the middle of the month and thankfully have over half of the budget I set for the month - £274.33 / £600, woohoo!

£266.97 groceries

£6.95 cleaning products

£0.42 toiletries

We did our first Aldi shop in a while at the weekend, £42 and that's our week mostly covered, apart from tofu from the Asian supermarket. I know this will come as a surprise to no one on here but I used the receipt on the Sainos app to compare prices and Aldi was 29% cheaper than Sainos. So, I'm questioning whether to renew the Sainos delivery pass.

Will continue to use up leftovers, eat veggie / plant based, and home cook everything. Might go for a £500 budget next month 🤞🏻.

SausageDogSandwich

How annoying just typed a long rambling post and it wouldn't post then disappeared. I knew trying on my phone would be a bad idea 😔

Short version is nsd yesterday and today for me however husband spent £2.20 on 10p items that were reduced as they weren't scanning at asdar today, 100s of items apparently. 

Picked up a frozen bundle on olio this morning also included around 15 packs of branded in date crisps. Great exercise of approx 3.5miles pushing my 4 year old in pram as she isn't very well but needed some fresh air. 

Hoping not to spend to much the rest of the week as have fruit, veg and essentials now, running very low on toothpaste though.

Hope everyone is enjoying the weather.

My total is now £81.05 spent. 

mumtoomany

Couple of spends to declare since last here. Total of £80.74, mostly Aldi, but also milk and the vegetable shop. Lots of fruit in the £1 boxes this week, make a change from satsumas, I bought 10kg of those last month for £4. Total to date now £1243.57/£2640, hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

Ginmonster

Grumpelstiltskin said:

Ginmonster I noticed today that Lidl have low sugar Granola in stock.

Thanks Grumpelstiltskin. Sadly I don't have a Lidl near me so I can't try their version. Hopefully the Sainsbury's one will be good enough. 

DawnW

Weekly shop today at Lidl. Managed to get a decent veg box   £27.76 spent in all.

Also paid the milk bill of £5.10.

So £147.10 spent so far this month out of my £230 budget.

otb666

375/600  not too bad trying to use up 20  o/o/date tins we overbought in lockdown   

Greying_Pilgrim

Morning GC'rs!


MissRikkiC - perhaps in future, it may be worth you growing your own Lupin beans?  Although I was interested to see that they are not advised to be eaten by people with peanut allergies, due to a similar compound being present in Lupin beans as is in peanuts.  I learn a new thing everyday!

Aiming for a NSD today.  

Will have to change the meal plan around a little.  We didn't have the smoked tofu buddha bowl on Monday, so that is now pencilled in for today, as it will enable me to make best use of items from the food table and last week's MrL box.  The stuff is still OK, but neither do i want food waste.  The lentil bake will keep in the freezer for another day.

Last night's soup was scrummy.  I cooked it in the PC, which worked beautifully.  I'm finding vegetarian food more flavourful cooked this way - in much the same way that a slow-cooker/slow cooking may enhance meaty stews and casseroles?? I made up some of the Zanzibar spice mix (anyone else get a B1lly J0el ear worm when they mention Zanzibar?  Nope?  Just me?  OK 😊), and have enough left over for another soup or another dish.  

I used one jar of bottled black eye beans in the soup.  I had got 2 jars 30% reduced in MrL a few weeks ago.  At 42p (reduced price) for 400g drained weight, they were cheaper than tinned, and I have to say, they were good.  As I cook dried beans too, I'm not sure they were any better than dried being home cooked, but they were good enough.  I appreciated the opportunity to try them out at a lower price.  I would certainly give consideration to buying them again (proper price is 59p), if dried beans weren't available, but I'm not sure that they are an economical option for me.  I think that the quality aspect of jarred beans (as discussed in the R4 Food Programme about beans), holds true though.

Greying X