May 2024 Grocery Challenge

otb666

300/550  as i go from 23rd to 23rd should be doable.  

Pennypincin

£10.50 spent in Lidl yesterday on fresh stuff plus a few other bits.
I've a bulk delivery later today, £102.38 on heavy cupboard staples.

Keedie

Can you put me down for £300 this month please @elsiepac.

That's for me and my son who's 17 and eats a fair bit, and includes household items like cleaning products, laundry stuff and other household staples like foil, cling film etc and any take aways. I've been over budget all year, but I'm determined to get on top of this month.

Off to Lidl in a few minutes and will see what the damage is 😬.

Crazycatlady2

Spent £126 so far. I need to buy less junk food and try to eat more healthy 

Pennypincin

£2.12 spent in Morrisons on salad I forgot to pick up yesterday.
I was hoping to treat myself to some reduced fruit, but just missed out as there was nothing much there.
Other than a pineapple lolly and a swede reduced.
I swear that there is a couple of people who are vultures and grab everything, leaving little for anyone else.
I spotted one of said vultures eyeing up my basket with the reduced bargains in it last week and thought it strange.
(Not that I mean to be mean or rude, it just annoys/frustrates me how greedy some people can be).

Frugalistamama

Went to Li*l for a few top up bits and came out £30.75 lighter. Humph. But did get a couple of jars of quality Geek proper honey so I won't need that now for at least the rest of the month. 

£87.30/£400

Soontobeoap

£22.93 spent in aldi. Store cupboard challenge this month but I did buy sausages and mince as well as vegetables, milk, bread etc🤦‍♀️. Now in my defence when I set budget I didnt know that DH was going to be in hospital for 5 days. I dont know what he will fancy when he comes out so I am making sure I have a variety. Knowing him it will be all puddings! 🤦‍♀️. I am still determined to try and stay in budget! To try and balance things out I used the gammon juices to fry up an onion and some mushrooms from the freezer, thickened with flour added a chicken stock cube along with some diced cooked chicken from the freezer and gammon from fridge and using home made shortcrust pastry made 6 pies for the freezer. Tommorrow after DH has had a beef sandwich the rest will be diced up for a casserole and I might be able to get 2 steak and mushroom pies out of it too. 😊

goldfinches

@Soontobeoap - your pies sound delicious.

£6.51 spent in M&S on milk, greek style yoghurt, baked beans and ys sliced wholemeal bread as I am spending the entire bank holiday head down and bum up weeding my allotment. The whole site is going to be included in a local open gardens afternoon next Sunday and so we're all panicking a bit and frantically tidying our plots up. Consequently I decided not to cook at all over the three days and just take a sandwich with me for lunch and then have beans on toast with an egg for dinner. 
I'm planning to have a crack at making these vegan meringues to take to my Wednesday walking group this week so I'll have to buy some more caster sugar tomorrow but that's all I'll need and then I only need 100ml of double cream for the recipe I've planned to make on Tuesday evening plus some more salady bits and that's it until Friday.

thriftwizard

£8.09 added for a mini-top-up at W8rose; milk, plums, carrots, a tub of peppercorns (bought about once a year) rolls for OH and a tub of ham knuckle, i.e. offcuts of deli ham. The knuckle's great value IF they have any (not a given!) as it's just that little bit to liven up an omelette (tonight's dinner, the Girls are laying like the clappers despite being 3 or 5 years old) a pizza or or a salad. We had been due to go over to DS3's for dinner, but he's not well, so that's been deferred; luckily we do have ridiculous numbers of eggs to use up!

scandimore

£98.39 spent at asda. Overall pleased with this however £9 totally wasted as I bought dog biscuits instead of cat biscuits - it's really easy to confuse the ones I get on that site as the products look so similar and it doesn't have "dog" or "cat" in the description. It's a 50 mile round trip to the nearest store so I'll give them to the neighbour.