June 2024 Grocery Challenge

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. 

Ainsty

This week's shopping

Red lentils (1kg): £2.50

Milk 4pts: £1.45

5 Bananas: 78p

6 Eggs: £1.35

Flour SR (1kg): 79p

Yellow split peas (500g): 99p

Cauliflower: £1.19

Sweet Potato: 67p

Sugar (1kg): £1.09

Chickpeas (500g): £1.59

Perfect for cakes (500g): £1.15

Carrots (1kg): 65p

Root ginger: 89p

£15.09

The strawberries have started and are lovely if the slugs, birds and woodlice keep off them. I'm so looking forward to broad beans, early potatoes and beetroot. Due to the cold and wet conditions, everything is behind this year.  The sweetcorn, courgettes and squash are particularly badly affected. I eat a lot of stored squash in the winter but I don't think I'll have many this year. To cheer myself up I make sponge pudding and custard using Goldern Syrup and Bird's Custard powder. It was lovely but it shouldn't be needed in June.

Blackcats

I made myself a cuppa, grabbed a pen, paper and abacus ready to add up my recent food spends.  When I logged into my chase account it had already categorised and totalled my spends.  It had done quite well with categories and allocation.  Generated by AI I suppose.

Spent extra at Lidls this week as we had a family picnic and we bought copious snacks for 6 grandchildren.

Anyway, apparently and allegedly according to my app I have 
£172 remaining 

goldfinches

I went shopping today for a new ferrule for the bottom of my walking stick as the one I bought four weeks ago has already worn through! I spent £2.49 in R*bert Dy*s on one that I hope will last a little while longer. Then I spent £6.99 in M*rks on yoghurt, coconut milk, ys rocket, ys lamb's lettuce, tomatoes and carrots.

That makes my new GC total £103.64/£150 and my average daily spend is now £6.09.

The Baking Budget spent 25p on a bag of overripe bananas that they sell for baking in my local M*rks so that budget total is now £8.80/20.

PipneyJane

Good morning All

I feel like I’ve lost the plot somewhat, this month.  I haven’t really, but I have been disorganised.  We went away last week with my sister and BIL, staying in a holiday flat.  I know I spent £35.50 in Sainsbugs, but I don’t have the receipt.

Yesterday, we went to L!dl and Sainsbugs.  £28.68 spent in L!dl on Pork Knuckle (£3.99), oats (90p), lactose-free milk (4x99p), Salmon En Croute (£4.49), tomato gnocchi (£1.19), puff pastry (£1.15), cheddar (£4.79), sliced Gouda (£2.99), prosciutto (£1.89), solvable Vitamin C (99p), plus hayfever tablets (79p) and cold & flu capsules (£1.45).  (I’m restocking the latter two items, having given my supply to my sister.). 

The £14.36 spent in Sainsbugs was on loose vegetables and 3 x 450ml Yeo Valley Greek Yoghurts With Honey (£1.50 each, Nectar price).  I also spent £2.07 on 376g of fresh ginger, which I’ll chop up today and freeze in ice-cubes.

Including £3.65 of shrapnel for the moneybox, the above brings our total spend to £135/£162.30, leaving £27.30 for the rest of the month.

Sadly, I will have to go back to L!dl this morning.  I forgot to add to the shopping list a couple of items for which we have discount coupons expiring today.  (Pesto, pak choi.).  May even venture to the butcher’s shop.

- Pip

LotsOfTea

I've a couple of small spends to declare of 69p on bananas and £3.54 on oats and granola but I've got a big shop arriving tomorrow with all the big stuff in. 

I've put a big pot of veg and chickpea curry on to cook ready for our tea tonight and lunch will be the last couple of wraps filled with some "shicken" kebabs from the freezer, hummus, shredded cabbage and hot sauce. I should have had 5 pints of beer first! 😂

I'm up to £140.77/£250

diminua

£188.34 spent so far this month. I've plenty of food - just need some milk and bread, and ideally some fruit. 

goldfinches

Another monster size salad adding in various bits from jars in the fridge and larder to celebrate the weather turning warm here.
I also made Nigella's Christmas Chocolate Cookies to take to my Wednesday walking group this afternoon as the members who need gluten free treats let me know they wouldn't be joining us today or for the foreseeable future. I found the cookie part of the recipe quick and easy to make and the results were delicious. I'm not so sure about the icing which didn't really add anything apart from sweetness to the overall flavour and took ages to set on top of the cookies. It was also very difficult afterwards to clean off the side where it had dripped because the sugar set as hard as cement on the work surface. I would definitely repeat the cookies though and just leave them plain because they're so good anyway. 

PipneyJane

Those cookies look lovely, @goldfinches, but I agree that they’re probably better without the icing.  (I never ice things and rarely eat it.  I find all kinds of icing too sweet.)

My L!dl shop yesterday totalled £5.23.  As well as the previously mentioned 15% off offers on pesto (2x84p) and pak choi (84p), we took advantage of an offer on cream cheese (72p) and bought a kilo of cooking bacon (£1.99).  7p has gone to the moneybox.

The above spend brings our June GC total to £140.30/£162.30, leaving £22 for the rest of the month.

Since we finally crossed the threshold for the free loaf of bread, we will have to go to L!dl next week to collect it.

- Pip