June 2023 Grocery Challenge

KajiKita

Got paid yesterday so declaring budget for June at £617.57 or 103% of budget. 

Not exactly where I would like to be, but I suspect I have made different choices about some spends than if I hadn’t been paying some attention!

Onto July!

KK

Suffolk_lass

It's a bit quiet on here this month (and the next two, normally) but I notice elsiepac has popped up the July thread here

KajiKita

Suffolk_lass said:

It's a bit quiet on here this month (and the next two, normally) but I notice elsiepac has popped up the July thread here

Thank you - have set myself up there 😊

KK

Pennypincin

£45.66 left for this month, after a nearly £30 spend to try and fill the freezer and a small top up shop.
I'm going to roll it over, as I'm paid tomorrow.
I may hold onto it and try to shop smarter as I will need to do an online shop sooner or later to get storecupboard essentials.

diminua

'Big' shop done. Slightly went outside my plan as Ada's had mint potted up that looked quite healthy (I will move it to a bigger pot and give it a hair cut to prolong it's life though. I'm sure all those cut and come again herbs are saturated with fertiliser to make them grow big and look good on the shelf, and it's not really sustainable long term). And a can of pina colada. 
Other than that grapes, eggs, pesto, pasta, baby potatoes, tinned fish, tomato puree and coffee. I will need bread and will probably also get orange juice on Wednesday (I want the one with bits in, which means JS) and a pastry on Thursday. There may be a lunch out tomorrow and drink Thursday evening in the crypt at St Martin's as I'm at a concert, but that will come from the holiday/birthday budget. 

MissRikkiC

We bust this months budget of £400 at a shocking £455. £25 of that was an A&C box I forgot to cancel (the 2nd in a row and not cancelled!) and the other £30 was just for the normal things. Everything did seem to need replacing last month so not feeling too bad about the additional spend but set aside no more this month than last to check out the theory! 

Off to July. 

Saver-upper

I have been keeping track of grocery shopping, but not had time to post on here. Here goes:
1st: ASDA £19.95, though can't find receipt
2nd: ASDA £91.61
8th: ASDA £50.82
15th: Sainsbury £52.64
17th: ASDA £32.70
19th: Iceland £8.10
21st: ALDI £4.85, milk and bread only

Total so far £260.67/£300.

SausageDogSandwich

Morning all, have spent £48.15 in Aldi, only went in to get some pop for kids but ended up a top up shop of sorts. And through the week I’ve spent almost £20 in the co op on reductions and sweets for kids and cucumbers as it’s the cheapest around with the member card. Only by 4p but   Haven’t had any shopping delivered on Sunday, got enough fruit for three days so everything can last until then but will need some milk tomorrow though. 

£336.31/400 spent

Crazycatlady2

£515 in Tesco and £118 in iceland

its a lot but we have a huge amount to carry forward to next month but issue is I don’t seem to use up what we have as I like to keep freezer always full 🤷‍♀️

Nelliegrace

£200 budget, £184 spent, £16 left

We went to the local Sainsbury’s superstore yesterday for the milk and so I could have a walk out of the heat.

There were a few useful yellow stickered items. For brunch today we had a mackerel fillets which I covered in oatmeal and grilled, served with homemade bread and homemade butter. The two fillets cost 64p, and I got a pack of sausage meat for 54p, which I used to make four large scotch eggs, two hot for dinner and two to have cold tomorrow. I used oatmeal instead of breadcrumbs for the final layer, and I baked a tray of not too sweet flapjacks with cranberries and pumpkin seeds.

I stocked up on their red label loose leaf tea, M&S and Waitrose seem to have stopped selling their cheaper loose leaf tea, and Asda no longer sell an own brand packet. I can’t get Clipper l.l. green tea anywhere.