June 2023 Grocery Challenge

mumtoomany

Hectic still here. The two littlies go home on Saturday. So lots of trips out to the beach etc. And lots of time spent outside chasing sheep and chickens. Spends since last on. £55.37. Don't foresee much else needed this month, other than milk and the tbags i forgot on Tuesday! 

Total spent to date now stands at, £1061.73/£1860. leaves just under £800 for the rest of the year. Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

mumtoomany

Just realised, I over guessed spends by 25p. Couldn't find the veg shop reciept! Also I've now found a full box of tea bags in the pantry. Total should be £1061.48. Hugs, mumtoomany.xxx

GreenFairy

As usual for me, first weekend of the month is the big shop, which is always a big chunk of the budget. Have restocked all the basics, including cleaning products, nappies and wipes a lot of which will do us for the month now. Lidl, Tesco, and butcher, with just over €256 spent. 

Made a tray of flapjacks, which have been almost savaged, and a tray of hedgehog cake as well. Not as cheap as they were with the price of butter now, but still not as expensive as packs of fancy biscuits, mini rolls and the like. 

Slight change to the meal plan this evening as I've found two half packs of wraps going crispy, the scut of two bags of grated cheese and I've some passata left from last night's pizza, so it's baked enchilada time!

School faire this weekend, so need to figure out something for the food stall. Youngest turns 2 at the end of the month (can't believe it!!!) so also need to plan an afternoon tea-type thing for that. It's all bloody go, isn't it?

Verulamium_Vixen

Evening everyone,  almost at the 1/3 mark and I am slightly under 1/3 of monthly spend so all on track.
Quick whizz around Aldi tonight as I found a TGTG in there.
I spent around £22 but that should see us through the weekend. 
The TGTG box included a bunch of celery. I hate celery.
I'll make a soup over the weekend,  no doubt OH will eat it.

VV

thriftwizard

Well, I'm a bit late with my weekly-shop update, but have worked out that I spent £43 at the market - some of it on fish for the freezer, as the new fishmonger comes every other week. I need to check my last post, though - have I added the £17 spent at the butchers on Thursday, or am I slightly further adrift than I'd like to be at this point in the month? It's all a bit chaotic; DD1 & BF have returned from their holiday now, plus it's our little town's annual Folk Festival so it's nigh on impossible to get to the shops, but - the garden's full of redcurrants! 8-and-a-little-bit jars of strawberry (12 punnets for £5 at the market, mis-shapes for jam) redcurrant & elderflower jam made, & double rations of strawberry & redcurrant ice-cream will be made tomorrow!

ETA:, the £17 hadn't yet appeared. So I actually spent £60 (plus a few pence, pending finding the receipt) and my new total will be £255.76.

2Scratters

Did a farm food check and struggled to find my receipt. It was £58.07 as I used a coupon too.
Nipped to Morrisons as I had purchased a TGTG bag and spent £20.01 in store only to find it had been cancelled by the time I got there again  Today I will shop from home and do some using up.

2 Scratters xx 

Soontobeoap

Struggling with keeping up this month. Have lost my book for recording spends. Looks like I must have done a really good tidy! DH keeps saying that he has seen it somewhere but that is as near as we have got! 🤦‍♀️🤣. I have been looking for it for a week and cannot delay things any more, so tonight I am going to tot up my reciepts from where I left off on here. Dont think it is going to be good though as the sunshine seems to have had a bad effect on my frugal habits. Lets hope that I will be pleasantly surprised!!! 

Soontobeoap

Just as I had given up looking I picked up a pile of clothes to put away and found my book underneath! Have taken all reciepts out of my purse and discovered that my total for this montb is £302.73 already. 😱. As many meals as possible will be found in freezer and DH will have to stop popping to the shops wheneber he feels like ice cream or lollies! 

KajiKita

I was reading an article in the G@urdian today about ultra processed foods (UPFs). Apparently when researchers went out and bought food for two groups of people UPFs and minimally processed foods (MPFs) the MPFs cost 40% more for the same volume of food. 

I think that probably explains quite a lot of what we are all experiencing here.

KK

Nelliegrace

The Maryland study was just ten people over two weeks @KajiKita and the people doing the shopping were researchers. 
The Guardian Long Read on the subject was interesting, https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/feb/13/how-ultra-processed-food-took-over-your-shopping-basket-brazil-carlos-monteiro

We are keeping within our budget by buying basic ingredients to make proper meals. Meat, fish and cheese are what we have bought yellow stickered or on offer and frozen in ration portions. Beans, lentils, nuts, and seeds from the pantry, and fresh eggs and milk add extra protein, which seems to be lacking in diets of highly processed stuff. 30 different plant foods a week on £2.50 each a day? No problem.