June 2023 Grocery Challenge

Saver-upper

Did a sort- of top- up shop in ASDA this morning: stocked up on cheap shampoo and conditioner(£8), toilet paper (£18.00-ish, lots of snacks.....total spend £69.69.


EDIT: One thing I bought with the groceries was a pair of pillows for £8.00, so going to take this out of the grocery budget, making a total spend of £61.69.
Total spend this month=£392.60/£300.00-- corrected to £384.60/£300.00

PipneyJane

Good morning All

Declaring for June at £147.30/£142.50 so £4.80 overspent.

Not as bad as I was expecting.  We got through to Thursday without spending anything.  Nearly made it to payday, but when I went to cook dinner on Thursday evening (Broccoli and Chorizo Pasta), I discovered the broccoli was beyond resurrection. DH popped into L!dl on his way home from work, spent 95p on broccoli and, much to his disgust, got two £2 coins in change.  (We have a house rule:  never spend a £2 coin; instead they go into a money box, eventually to be added to the “Running Away Fund”.). With the 5p piece counting as “shrapnel” - and going to another moneybox, that took us £4.80 over.

- Pip

ancientmum

Finishing June on £539.26 out of £1200 annual budget and hopping over to July

Suffolk_lass

Finished June on £1435.64 out of £3000 for the year, which sounds OK except that instead of my average of under £250 each month, we spent £353.46.

It was a five week milk month and it does include a 25k sack of my bread flour, imported from Italy and up from £8 including carriage to £50 thanks to the cost of the paperwork that needs to accompany imports now we are out of the EU.

I will need to shop this week but that will be in July's accounting line.

2Scratters

We have some change left and it was a 5 week month! £5.23 it was. 
The change has gone into a large plastic bottle - we will try to fill it. We also save the £2 coins and that comes off the spends figures too. £5 note has gone into a cash stash that I have hidden away!!
As our budget increased £200 to £250 there is £50 saved in an account for when we need to do a large freezer meat run or rare cash and carry purchase.
 
See you in July

As always strive to do better

2 Scratters xx

SausageDogSandwich

Total spent £386.27/400. Have used the change to buy some alcohol slushes and bottle of wine from Aldi 

gill5blue

Hi All,
Declaring for June

spent £295.88/£300

success again-thanks to this site/thread and elsipac
gill5blue