May 2023 Grocery Challenge

JingsMyBucket

Morning folks, hope everyone had a good holiday weekend. Thanks @elsiepac for the thread again this month. Could you please put us down for: 

£300 for May 1 - May 31

This is a reduction from April that was £400 due to hosting Easter lunch. I'd like to get back down to the £250 – £300 range once again. We'll be going away the end of this week for 5 days so that will come out of our travel budget and will help a bit. I've scheduled a fruit, veg and egg delivery with our local provider for when we return and that'll be about £26 but I'm not counting it just yet.

Mr. Jings did put in an Amazon order for Kind Bars yesterday, at my request, to have on the trip. Those cost £12 and are the first spend of the month. Today I'll head over to Farm Foods to get some Yorkshire Tea bags because the price on Tesco online is looking a bit high. I'm slowly putting together a Tesco order for after our return and am deliberating on what to stock up on. Feh. It'll get done. This month I may rely more on Lidl and TGTG bags from Morrison's to keep the costs down. Also, more meal planning to use up the resources in the freezer. 

£12.00 / £300.00 spent so far. £288.00 remaining. 

MissRikkiC

Hi all! @elsiepac Thanks for running another month! 

Can you put me down for £400 please 

I haven’t joined in for a couple of months but read along and enjoy the thread as ever. 

We cover 2 adults, 2 children (with similar appetites despite 1 being 11 months old and the other near on 3!) plus all cleaning and bathroom essentials. We cover half of our ‘milk’ allocation in here but specific allergy free milk for my youngest and I is paid for separately. We do now have a bulk fund but it’s for the aforementioned milk, flour and offer type stuff. It’s not often used. I previously used it for oats in large quantities but since that’s also now on the list of our allergens it’s not used for that (and there is approx 20kg with little need for it at home now!)

We’ve included beer and wine for the last few months and unsurprisingly not made our budget so this is now removed. 

We all eat meat but no longer eat beef due to allergies and we cover a veg box most weeks. 

Finally our month runs 25-24th. 

I hope to come in light this month. It would be nice however I’m not banking on it!

chirpychick

I had to go to A$da again last night, I had hoped I wouldn't need to but to be honest we had this entire day at the cricket 9-5 for my 10yr old's tournament, I was exhausted and knew we had run out of some things and wanted to make something easy for dinner. Whilst in there I got diet coke, a huge punnet of strawberries which in hindsight might not have been the best move but they were £3 which was a bargain in comparison to what we normally get and my son deserved a treat. naughtily i got myself some own brand crisps, a couple of oven pizzas and my son only eats pain au chocolat for breakfast, nothing else, they had some fresh bakery ones 8 for £1.25 and a huge thing of 12 doughnuts for £1.31 not at all essential except for the emotional need after such a hard day. I had also been unwell all weekend and needed some more ibuprofen and migraine tablets which i realised ended up coming out of our food budget. Anyway the total was £24.86 which took me to £62.22 but then it was agreed the medicine could come out of the joint money which reduced my spend 45p ibuprofen £2.85 migraine making my weekly total to date £58.92 leaving me £1.08 until Thursday. Im fairly certain I have no need to spend that. I realise now how much of my budget goes on junk. I really must make more effort, my waistline will thank me!

Cocobeans

Popped to @ldi after dropping DD to school as we needed Soya Milk and its only 50p a carton there.  Also picked up some sweet potatoes as they are part of their super 6 and some Haloumi  - DD loves this and @ldi has always been the cheapest place to buy but it's now £2.15! Shouldn't need anything else until the weekend now apart from maybe some normal milk.

£39.45 out of £275 spent 

MsPennyMinder

Hi @elsiepac

May I join this month? My budget is 125 in total and if there was some left, I'd be ecstatic as things are crazy tight this month. I've got a lot of stressful things in my life rn which are not helping me budget properly!

Already spend 5.40 on bread and some cans of juice.
5.40/125

mumtoomany

Hi all. Been and done a big shop today. Spent £26.95 in Aldi, this included toilet rolls, tea, coffee, biscuits, bread, yougurt, carrots, beans and sausages, diced beef,(requested by OH) crisps, cream crackers and reduced hot cross buns. £16.06 at the greengrocers, lots af fruit and veg in cluding a sack of potatoes. £5.02 in Morrisons, marg, milk(YS) and frozen peas. £21.22 in iceland, milk, beer, chocolate biscuits and YS ham. £9.60 in the cash and carry, sausages, 2 packs of chicken tinga,(No idea what that is, but looks like some sort of spicy chicken and was 50p per kilo bag!), 3 fruit loaves, 2kg cottage cheese, and 10 assorted damaged/dented/lableless tins. £1 in home bargains for wine, to go with the beef.

Total spent £79.85. Total for the year to date now £811.20/£2640. Will need more milk by next week! Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here

lianne1984

My budget is £220 for May

sarahj1986

£81.25 spent

big Tesco shop as we were running low on many things

£168.75 left

lianne1984

I spent £9 on a few essentials today, £211 left