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June 2024 Grocery Challenge
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Finishing the month with £20 left in the kitty. This sounds good but we have had a few eats out which have come from a different budget.
the £20 has gone into my Christmas savings pot.
see you all in July2 -
- Total for June 182.74 for one person 😭
I'm in shock, never worked it out before this month. I'll keep an eye on july.I need a bigger freezer to cook enough and freeze, I do both cook+freeze, and buy cooked and heat from Iceland.Note:I'm FTB, not an expert, all my comments are from personal experience and not a professional advice.Mortgage debt start date = 25/10/2024 = 175k (5.44% interest rate, 20 year term)
Q4/2024 = 139.3k (5.19% interest rate)
Q1/2025 = 125.3k (interest rate dropped from 5.19% - 4.69%)
Q2/2025 = 109.2K (interest rate 4.44%)3 -
Morning all, hope you are well. Husband went to ff yesterday to get two bottles of milk, the 99p colliers cheese x3 blocks and he picked up two boxes of battered fish whilst there which came to £7.15. Didn’t order a main shop and still not got round to it. Have gone over this month, declaring at-
£333.65/320 spent.
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Morning all, I'm declaring at £459.80 / £400.00. We had a couple impromptu parties and dinners to contribute to this month and that's what put us over more than usual. Plus Mr. Jings has been going through eggs like they're going out of style. He's eating at least 2 eggs a day and sometimes even 4. That said, he's stated he wants to slow down on the yoghurt for a bit so I guess it'll be switching out protein sources in July to see what happens with his health.
Have a good day everyone and see you on the July thread!2 -
@Daywon you will need to pop over to the July thread for that month's GC.Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
My new diary is here3 -
Quite pleased to check my bank statement and find that the grocery shopping adds up to just under £160 for the two of us for the month. That has included some non-food items, paracetamol, and cod liver oil for the dog.
I have bought some yellow stickered items, and special offers, but bought only basic ingredients. I am continuing to use the healthy WW2 ration quantities for meat, bacon, dairy, chocolate, tea, sugar, etc.
It has been another good month for eggs from our four hens. We had some surplus eggs to sell to pay for their feed, and I shall start preserving some eggs soon for winter.
We have made our own bread and a weekly cake. I have stocked up on Allinson's bread flour while it was on offer, and saved most of our sugar to make jam.5 -
Morning all, didn’t want to do anymore spending but husband did
I know he bought two big pots of yogurt but not sure what else, the total was 11.11 anyway. Won’t be doing an online shop this week I don’t think but will have to get some shopping along with my sons birthday tea mid next week, do need some milk again soon though
£136.43/300
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