September 2024 Grocery Challenge

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Evening,  l popped into the local Asda because we'd run out of squash...£11.79 later 
I was hungry and couldn't resist the YS bakery items. In addition to the squash we actually needed l brought two disposable BBQ's @73p each . If we don't use them this year they'll be ready for 2025 

New total £459.25 /£600

Food £313.96/£420
Petrol £145.29/£180.

SausageDogSandwich

Morning all, need to catch up with the thread, just a quick post of my totals. Have spent quite a bit since last posting, including a meal deal for our anniversary, cofffee for machine was on offer so stocked up on that, treated outserlves to 3 for 10£ on frozen pizzza that we haven’t had for ages, then just the usual shopping. We have enough for meals etc for the rest of the month now, just need toiletries and fresh fruit and veg midweek. 

Total £297.99/350. 

JingsMyBucket

Howdy, I just spent £30.89 at Tesco for a variety of fruits and veg amongst other things. 

Bananas, 2 punnets of YS strawberries (38p each!), a  YS large tray of chopped mango (£2.52), avocados, asparagus, clementines, 2 big red cabbages for Mr. Jings to make sauerkraut, salad, yogurt in various forms, 24 eggs, bell peppers, sliced ham, figs, and milk. 

That will definitely last us to the weekend. 

£372.76 / £386.00 spent. £13.24 remaining

I think I’m going to roll over our Love to Shop vouchers to October. With the way they’re set up, I don’t think you can partially use a £25 paper voucher, say. It all has to be in one go. We can use that on the first of the month for small items at M & S like milk, yoghurt, etc. 

Looking at the purchased list above, there are three categories of items that cost the most. Yoghurts = £5.90, Eggs = £5.30, and Sliced Ham = £5.00. So roughly £16 a week as a baseline of what we normally go through not including the requisite berries and bananas either. It's good to work this out so we know going forward that our staples run at least £16 – £22 per week. 

Blackcats

Spent some more of the budget today in Lidls.  Our friend is visiting tomorrow and by his own admission he eats a LOT!  I've made a chocolate chip loaf cake to have with morning coffee.  Lunch will be a cheesy jalapeño loaf from the freezer with cheese, hard boiled eggs, tomatoes etc.  dinner will be chicken thighs in a creamy mushroom sauce with baby potatoes and broccoli.  

For the rest of this month I'm trying to use a mix of existing freezer goodies, store cupboard tins and jars while buying fresh fruit, veg, milk etc.  I would really like to have a surplus to move to my Christmas savings pot.  

£66.11 remaining.

t14cy_t

spent all of my £100 budget for this month, so winging it for the next few days!!

PipneyJane

Good morning All

I’ve a few spends to declare from earlier in the week.  £3.50 spend on flowers for a friend on Sunday. £9.41 in Sainsbugs and £16.30 in C0stc0 on Monday.  There was also £2.19 of shrapnel that’s made its way to the moneyboxes, including a £2 coin.  The Sainsbugs spend was on Yeo Valley yoghurts (4 x £1.50 Nectar price), bananas and mushrooms.

The C0stc0 spend was entirely on a 6.5kg box of Persia non-bio, (the 130 wash box).  The current box has lasted us more than 18 months. (I carefully measure out the dosage - 30g for a half wash and 60g for a full.)

The above bring our total spend to £134.50/£182.60 leaving £48.10 for the rest of the month.

I honestly don’t know if we’ll be doing another big spend this month.  There are a couple of items I could stock up on at MrT’s, but none are urgent.

- Pip

diminua

Just checking in with £10.14 left for the next four days, but apart from fruit and veg there's nothing I should need. 

LotsOfTea

I had a big shopping delivery yesterday which came to £131.73. I needed to replenish stocks of fruit and veg, sandwich fillings, bread flour and cereal among other things. I'm away next week visiting relatives so I also added some things to make life a bit easier for DH to make meals for him and DS whilst I'm away.

That's me done for the month at £263.56/£250 but I'm going to up my amount for next month as DS is mostly taking a packed lunch to school now which he never used to so I definitely need more food in.

JingsMyBucket

Morning folks. I spent £7.20 earlier this week in M & S for coffee beans, rice, and a can of sardines. 

£379.96 / £386.00 spent. £6.04 remaining

thriftwizard

A combined spend of £93.86 yesterday & today has brought me in for September at £497+, just a whisker under my target - phew! We do in fact need another 2-pt of milk but that is still (just) within the budget, provided nothing else falls into my basket. Monday is payday & we're busy over the weekend, so there's very little opportunity to go off the rails now. Hoping to do better still in October, as life returns to as close to normal as this household ever gets...