June 2022 Grocery Challenge

K9sandFelines

I'm still here til the 12 th too *waves*.

I've had a few spends, so I'm now at £122.25 of £120, with four days left.
I've planned meals for the week, so I am hoping I should be ok; but I may need milk and flour.

I forgot to use a Waitr*se voucher today off something I was buying. It was on offer already though luckily. So I may grab another when the voucher is expiring and the offer, as its the same date.

Also, for the first time in forever (a la Frozen), I bagged some loaves of bread off Olio. I was meant to be transferring freezer stuff from  the frost free freezer, to defrost it (as it's on its last legs and wanted to see if this would help); but now the bread is taking up the space in my other freezer 🙄. So that job will have to wait now! 

Suffolk_lass

K9sandFelines said:

 I was meant to be transferring freezer stuff from  the frost free freezer, to defrost it (as it's on its last legs and wanted to see if this would help); but now the bread is taking up the space in my other freezer 🙄. So that job will have to wait now! 

If you know the fridge freezer is on its last legs I would be inclined to swap the rescue free food in and your other food out...

Yes, still here

EssexHebridean

Morning all - up and out and shopping done nice and early today so I can now declare our June budget spends as £199.92/£200 😆😅

Today’s Al’s spend included a bag of their nice oven chips, and a pack of brioche burger buns, both of which will do more than just the one meal of course. A new pack of basmati rice (as I finished one last night and then realised I’d not got a replacement in) Also a block of butter as I spotted that M’s own label block butter appeared to be £1.99 a block yesterday so I decided to grab another block while it was still (!) at the £1.75 price point in Al’s. Aside from that it was basically routine stuff - and we did comment as we left the store that the two bags we carried out didn’t feel like much for the £17 we spent. 

I know we’re only within pennies of going over but l’m honestly quite pleased with that - a five week month, with 2 veg boxes and a farmers market, plus a bit of stocking up at the start of the month - that actually feels like quite an achievement. I’ll now be shifting on to July - and must make a shopping list for MrEH for next week’s shop too else he’ll go rogue! 

K9s I’d be inclined to agree with SL about having the food that’s physically cost you hard-earned cash in the more reliable freezer - not least because bread doesn’t matter if it DOES defrost and need refreezing, of course! 

EssexHebridean

hey K9's - I hope your last few days of the month are going smoothly! 

K9sandFelines

Suffolk_lass said:

K9sandFelines said:

 I was meant to be transferring freezer stuff from  the frost free freezer, to defrost it (as it's on its last legs and wanted to see if this would help); but now the bread is taking up the space in my other freezer 🙄. So that job will have to wait now! 

If you know the fridge freezer is on its last legs I would be inclined to swap the rescue free food in and your other food out...

Yes, still here

They're both about on a par with one a other to be honest. The frost free one is nearly empty again now, so should get to be defrosted at some point in time. 

I have come in £17.92 over budget. This could have largely been to do with DD2 arriving slap bang at the end of the month; but not going to blame it solely on her 😁

Onwards and upwards for July 😏

K9sandFelines

EssexHebridean said:

Morning all - up and out and shopping done nice and early today so I can now declare our June budget spends as £199.92/£200 😆😅

Today’s Al’s spend included a bag of their nice oven chips, and a pack of brioche burger buns, both of which will do more than just the one meal of course. A new pack of basmati rice (as I finished one last night and then realised I’d not got a replacement in) Also a block of butter as I spotted that M’s own label block butter appeared to be £1.99 a block yesterday so I decided to grab another block while it was still (!) at the £1.75 price point in Al’s. Aside from that it was basically routine stuff - and we did comment as we left the store that the two bags we carried out didn’t feel like much for the £17 we spent. 

I know we’re only within pennies of going over but l’m honestly quite pleased with that - a five week month, with 2 veg boxes and a farmers market, plus a bit of stocking up at the start of the month - that actually feels like quite an achievement. I’ll now be shifting on to July - and must make a shopping list for MrEH for next week’s shop too else he’ll go rogue! 

K9s I’d be inclined to agree with SL about having the food that’s physically cost you hard-earned cash in the more reliable freezer - not least because bread doesn’t matter if it DOES defrost and need refreezing, of course! 

The other freezer is tiny so can't house everything. It's a 1950s Fridgidaire fridge, with a freezer at the top. The freezer is actually very reliable, but small.
There isn't that much left now. The aim was to do that; but at the time the gap was in this freezer and not the other, so I just shoved it in!