July 2022 Grocery Challenge

LittleGem

Just a little spend to declare in Boots some kids snacks as LO came in with me and got seduced by Gruffalo biscuits 🤦🏻‍♀️
So £3.49 to add to the budget £111.50/£150

need to get some more bread and milk in, and some more berries (LO demolishes these so I’m happy to spend on fruit for her).

im always so jealous of everyone’s YS finds, I very rarely find anything in my local supermarkets, but then again I only have a small freezer so couldn’t do much stashing anyway!

pamsdish

£8.26 in A1D1 restocking salads, shop was phenomenally busy, picked up some y.s raspberries, got cream and coconut milk, I want to experiment making magnum type cream ice lollies with crushed raspberries in, also a vacuum pack of beetroot, making beetroot jelly, have s.f jelly crystals, and it sounds like a nice addition.

PearlRose

Sainsbury's £62.63
Aldi £47.93
Iceland £5
Amazon Fresh £40.95

Grocery spending so far £156.51/ £400

Have been having overnight oats for breakfast recently, they are really nice for the current weather. Got Scott's Porage Original Porridge Oats (1kg) for £1.50 from Amazon Fresh. One box lasts about five to seven days for us.

thriftwizard

Just added a scary £78.27 from today's dive into L!dls; this did include a reasonably well-filled box (apricots, lemons, peppers, a cauli, easy-peelers, an iceberg lettuce - the chickens will get that - and a very sad leek) but basically cost about what I'm used  to spending on a full stock-up, though it was far from that. 

Suffolk_lass

Thank goodness the garden harvest is coming now. Beans (French purple ones), griddled courgettes and salad potatoes with a bit of chicken from the freezer means my purse is staying shut.

I have also just cancelled the milk for a week and it splits across two DD weeks so I will be getting a small refund in a day or two.

Very taken with the idea of popsicles from fruit. I made Strawberry ice cream yesterday and have just picked a load of blackcurrants. Off to search for moulds (that may have gone to the CS)

Edit: found them. Going to liquidise some fruit and fill them I think!

London_1

PipneyJane said:

Valxx said:

Can I join?
I've spent £3 cash so far, and £14 on food on my UNISON Prepaid card, which is a cashback card when you shop at Sainsbury's, Boots, Wilko....

@Valxx

Hope you’ll find us a friendly bunch here. If you haven’t already done so, please read the first few posts of the thread.  There’s some really helpful information there. 

London_1 said:

Still on my holidays at the moment but will be back at home on Friday, anything left from our holiday house will come home to be used up over the weekend, and my first shop for July will be probably be a week today.

I have plenty of UHT milk in supply at home and some bits in the freezer to do me over the weekend, and I go to DDs next Sunday for dinner, so I shall hold off until Monday before doing any shopping  

I have some cash squirrelled away to restock my freezer, as I defrosted it before my holidays, and only put back in odds and ends I had stored in DDs freezer. so I will do a complete inventory of what's in there when I get home .

Then it will be a case of looking at all the websites to see the best prices for what i want . I have Sainsburys, Asdas, Aldi's and Tescos all within 2 miles of my house, so I make a list then look at each website for the best price, and divide my list up into best possible prices
It's surprising what different prices there are when you compare .There used to be a website that did this but it seems to have disappeared. I know I will need fresh fruit and veg  but can manage until a week today before shopping as I have frozen veg I know in the freezer and plenty of tinned stuff.

JackieO xx

@London_1, sorry to say it JackieO but I think that website went bust.  It’s been gone over for well over a year now.

 
- Pip

I am sure you're correct ,but to be fair it is a long time since I looked as I worked out the range of shops near to me that I could drive to, at best with the least amount of petrol used I'm nothing if not canny  


I then write my list of essentials needed and try to go either first thing in the morning or later in the evening .
Lockdown habits die hard .
I try to steer clear of the busy times, and prefer it when its quiet. Having a low immnutiy since chemo I have always done this as my oncologist suggested it was less chance of catching any infections  when its quieter. Plus I like to be able to browse without being jostled around  

I then work out the best prices and visit each shop in turn and get all my shopping done in one go. I only shop at most twice a month as well which helps I'm not keen on shopping at the best of times to be honest.Got it down to a fine art now  There is a good wet fish shop near where I live and he's excellent and will recommend whats in season and good value and will also fillet it for you Nice chap and it keeps the local economy going Now and again I will drive to Whitstable after visiting my sis-in-law in Faversham so I double up on two jobs done to save extra mileage There is also a super farm shop near her in Faversham called Macnades wherr they do terrific range of herbs and spices and stuff from almost all over the world for that something 'different' Just walking in there its like Harrods food hall  

I shall bring some fresh stuff back from my holidays as there is also a decent farm shop locally . I do think if I can I like to support the farm shops as they do work so hard and get dreadful prices from the big supermarkets.

My eldest DD brings me Colombian blue coffee back from the USA when she visits my grandson as she goes out there about 2-4 times a year bless her so my coffee needs are sorted. 
JackieO xx

Suffolk_lass

Blimey @London_1 I didn't realise you had changed your name. There was me thinking this unfamiliar person knows what they're doing and it was you all the time! 

SausageDogSandwich

Another £7.83 spent for me, which was a small shop at asd@ yesterday and husband has bought a couple of things while at work. Making my total so far £32.46/150. 

Doom_and_Gloom

JingsMyBucket said:

@Doom_and_Gloom wow, can you please link to the oyster mushroom kit that you bought online? We’d love to add that to our household. 

https://shop.grocycle.com/?_ga=2.155419195.1609165851.1657645270-889729740.1657645270. A&C sell them if you already buy with them. Hope that helps.

£42.03 spent since last post between A&C, O~box, Mr S and L!do.

The large fruit and vegetable O~box I got this week with add on of kumato tomatoes (the darker ones) 


£168.00/£250.
£82.00 left.

London_1

Suffolk_lass said:

Blimey @London_1 I didn't realise you had changed your name. There was me thinking this unfamiliar person knows what they're doing and it was you all the time! 

Oh bless you I was off line for a long while when the format changed and I found it too difficult to sort out on my laptop as I had disposed of my desktop computer, and the only way i could return was to have a different name ,but its still me underneath    My Misers Cook Book is well out of date now the 50p meals look like becoming a thing of the past  
But I'm still working on updating it pricewise now the recipes are OK its just the price of the ingrdiants that have shot up

Nice you remembered me though  

JackieO xx