June 2024 Grocery Challenge

thriftwizard

Another mad weekend (out trading both days) has passed & I'm 'fessing up to £59.17 spent on Friday and another £23.89 today, leaving us £181.51 for the rest of June, with two more "weekly" shops plus small top-ups to go, as payday for us is 28th so technically that's when we go into July. Which leaves us basically more or less on target - so far!

goldfinches

I went shopping with a very careful list this morning and stuck to it apart from not being able to get the size of milk I usually buy because M*rks just can't seem to get their algorithm to work properly.I spent £13.49 on milk, 2x radishes, tomatoes, a 9v battery, salad potatoes, romaine hearts, celery, cucumber and carrots.

That makes my new GC total £73.64/£150 and my average daily spend is now running at £7.36. Oops, I think I'd better have another delve into the freezer to see what I can find to use up for the next few days.

PipneyJane

Good morning All

One small spend to declare:  91p in Sainsbugs for two large, roasting potatoes.  

The above brings our June GC spend to £52.91/£162.30, leaving £109.39 for the rest of the month.

- Pip

SausageDogSandwich

Morning everyone thought I had posted my target already but can’t find my post so couldn’t have done. In any case can I please have 

£320 for the month please.

As usual this is for 2 adults and 3 kids who eat more than me, for all meals and cleaning stuff etc. That’s £300 plus £20 that was left from last months budget. 

Total so far £97.10/320.

goldfinches

I had to pop back to the shops today because I'd completely finished my decaffeinated coffee yesterday evening and didn't have another jar in the cupboard so I went to Mr T's and spent £6. The Baking Budget spent £5.65 on gluten free white self-raising flour, apples and a packet of free from custard creams.

That makes my new GC total £79.64/£150.
The Baking Budget total is now £8.55/£20 and I made the apple version of this vegan ginger slice recipe with gluten free flour earlier this evening.



It smelt wonderful while it was in the oven so my hopes are high that it will be a success. I also made up a slightly out of date Doves Farm gluten free sponge cake mix packet that I found at the back of the larder using some of the overripe bananas that my local M*rks sell off sometimes. That came out smelling lovely and looking very nice too so I'm taking both these to my walking group outing tomorrow afternoon.

 

Pennypincin

The cakes look good goldfinches.
I'm interested in the baking budget too as I've got briefly been considering weather or not I should do something similar.

PipneyJane

@goldfinches your walking group friends must love you.  Those cakes look lovely.

We found an excellent gluten-free bread in Sainsbugs last week for my sister, who has coeliac’s disease.  It’s called “Promise” and is a granary loaf that has the look and feel of regular bread.  You really can’t tell the difference.  (DS and her husband are over from Oz for a few weeks.).

- Pip

kayannie

PipneyJane said:

@goldfinches your walking group friends must love you.  Those cakes look lovely.

We found an excellent gluten-free bread in Sainsbugs last week for my sister, who has coeliac’s disease.  It’s called “Promise” and is a granary loaf that has the look and feel of regular bread.  You really can’t tell the difference.  (DS and her husband are over from Oz for a few weeks.).

- Pip

I'll have to look out for that bread - I've always found Warburton's hard to beat. My DD was diagnosed coeliac over 50 years ago & I like to keep some gf bread in the freezer for when she visits. Luckily the bread is much improved from what little was available in the distant past!
KA

Mrs_Cheshire

Hi all, few spends to declare - ended up getting a takeaway on sunday so going to add that here £37.90, I also got an Ub3r £ats order as they had 50% off snacks this weekend £48.57. We also had 2 shops in Ald! totalling £56.83 and a He!!o Fresh order £36.98 
Our total is currently £315.15/£450 

Auti

I have Asda free from White and Wholegrain loaf - good size slices with no holes and not too many strange ingredients oh and £1.90 a loaf (very filling).