June 2024 Grocery Challenge

otb666

650/550 well and truly blown the budget and still got a week to go.  I will go and stand in the corner and face the wall.  I added the 50 overspend from last month and bought a weeks worth of food for my adult child 125 who was self catering.  So I could be hard on myself but like to help them.  Thanks for making me accountable I will have to reign it in for rest of month.  I think I got a bit excited cos going to be coming into inheritance from distant relative via hoopers heir hunters but thats no excuse.  I will eat from freezer when fresh food runs out and just buy milk this coming week.

goldfinches

@otb666 - how nice to hear of your good fortune, lucky you.

I got absolutely taken to the cleaners by a fruit and veg shop in Headington where I spotted some gorgeous looking large aubergines today, they charged me £5.56 for 884g aubergines and £3.14 for 286g of cherry tomatoes! If I'd just walked round the corner and up the road I could have been overcharged in Waitflower instead! 

That makes my new GC total £94.16/£150 and my average daily spend is now £6.27.

otb666

i swopped my local market for fruit and veg to a farm shop went from spending over 40 to just 20 pounds a week. I also buy frozen berries now a lot cheaper.

Nelliegrace

Our meat ration for the two of us for the week is £5. This week we are having a large fresh chicken from Asda, £4.49. I checked the weights and got one of the largest at 1.9kg, and every bit will be used and the carcass simmered for stock. 
I have some cooking bacon from the freezer, Sainsbury’s, 500g for £1. Divided into four portions and three frozen, a pack lasts us a month. 
We have plenty of eggs from the four hens, I sold the surplus at WI at £1 for 6 large eggs. They are paying for their own layers pellets. 

JingsMyBucket

Afternoon everyone. I kind of let the groceries purchases run away from me the last week along with buying food to contribute to some friends who had us over for dinner. We've spent £119.61 in various places since the 10th of June. We've just come back from Lidl and that amount includes the £26 on food we just spent there. We spent £8 on plants but I'm not counting that. 

£297.72 / £400.00 spent. £102.28 remaining.

I'll reserve £15 to get us through the rest of the week for yoghurt, cheese, bananas, etc. That should leave about £85 for the last week of the month when we'll need to get items like olive oil which have skyrocketed in the last few months. 😕

debtfreewannabe321

£384.66/500

I reckon I might be able to get to the end of the month in budget for once! I have a shop due tomorrow which should take us to pay day hopefully. It is currently at £103 although I do need to just check the freezer to see if I need to add anything to it. 
I have managed to pull it in a bit as I have refused to do top up shops. I have gone through the basket taking all excess out (which is a bit sad really) and just made do with alternatives which is helping run some old stock down. 

Soontobeoap

Children and grand children tirned up for Fathers day today £8.00spent on baguette, sald bits and ham. Easy lunch and very cheap meal for 12 of us.) we already had some ham) 

Pennypincin

£2.37 spent in Morrisons on a reduced vegetable sushi, a reduced Mediterranean vegetable pack and 2 packs of vegetarian escalopes.
£8.06 left going into the bulk fund.

Suffolk_lass

A few bits in my mid-month top up shop needed today. More milk, cream, salad and coleslaw, and maybe a lemon and some baking potatoes. These should (FC) take us to the end of the month. Spending at just under £150 s far but with one or two big river subscription things and weekly milkman still to add, we are going to be at £200 I estimate.

Loving the make do substitutions @debtfreewannabee321 - this will really begin to tell as it becomes the norm, I think

SausageDogSandwich

Morning all, hope everyone is doing well. Had big shop delivered Saturday and went to farmfoods for milk and fish, slightly overspent as I thought would happen 

£186.77/320 spent.