May 2025 Grocery Challenge

SausageDogSandwich

Fallen behind with the post and need to catch up but just a quick post to say that I’m at £197.65/400. That’s with the big shop delivered last night, not really sure where I am going so wrong this month and last, can’t really cut back on a lot else 

LotsOfTea

Another £5.80 spent yesterday at the corner shop near my son's sports activity. I went in to buy eggs as the day before I'd gone to make some cake and there were no eggs in the fridge. While I was there I bought burger buns so DS and I could have burgers for lunch and also treated us both to an ice lolly as it was scorchio! 

I got home and when I put the eggs away I found we actually had a pack of eggs which I'd failed to notice despite looking about three times. 🤦‍♀️

I'm up to £15.98/£200 so far.

t14cy_t

olio has been good again, so still at £100/£200 for this months budget.

mandco

New budget of £800 mid may-mid june please

This includes everything food/household/toiletry/pet related. Need to work on keeping track of each category separately to get a better idea of what I’m spending where as lost track last month.
may starts off at £34.75 special diet cat food.

JingsMyBucket

@karenccs67 and @C_J, I’m so sorry to hear about your husbands. It must be so traumatic to lose a partner. We’re attending a funeral this Wednesday for the deceased spouse of someone we know. We both just keep shaking our heads about it all. Sending hugs to anyone who’s grieving or just needs some comfort x. 

@SausageDogSandwich it’s not just you with the accelerated spending. I’ve been on a real tear this month with spending. Maybe I messed up my shopping/cooking rhythm? And just today, I’ve spent an enormous amount to restock the fridge and to get some easier food because we’ll be dealing with the funeral this week. The fridge was genuinely bare and we had no fresh vegetables or fruit left in the house. 

£62.18 at Lidl for blueberries, raspberries, tomatoes, avocados, carrots, a bag of bell peppers, big mushrooms, parsley, ginger, bananas, eggs, tea, various salad greens, chicken drumsticks, chicken thighs, ground beef, sliced ham, various German sausages from Alpenfest week, butter, cheddar and other cheeses, milk, canned fish, hay fever allergy tablets, etc. It was a real house grocery restock 

£1.69 at an Eastern European store for a jar of sauerkraut 

£7.95 at M & S for bananas, garlic, salad, yoghurt, and baked beans. 

£227.46 / £325 spent. £97.54 total remaining.  

Speaking of Lidl Alpenfest, a lot of products are delayed. I'll head back there later in the week, likely on Thursday. When this has previously happened our local branch has brought out a bunch of theme week items late/after the specific week when items have been delayed before. 

goldfinches

@PipneyJane - yuck, that glyphosphate drying sounds frightful, I'm not surprised you don't want to eat the resulting oats. Unfortunately, I can't help you with a cheap source of organic ones because once I checked the places I could think of they all turned out to be non-organically processed. If it helps I've looked at Bakery Bits, Hamlyn's Scottish Oats and Marriage's Millers so you can at least cross those off your list of places to look. Good luck with finding some reasonably priced organic oats in the near future.

carboot_karaoke

Morning all,

Just catching up after a busy weekend, 

We had a lovely weekend visiting a National Trust property, so a good picnic was needed. 

Spent quite a lot on food £106.27 spent in Tesco's although there was a lot of non food items like shower gel, deodorant, toilet blocks, toothpaste, foil and,cling film (it seems to be ok ish atm) which accounted for £16.30 of the total. Finally, bit the bullet and brought olive oil another £6.50 of the total.

Then l spent £2.48 in asda for squash and cookies and a further £6.99 in Lidl for frozen berries for my breakfast, apple sauce for Sundays roast pork dinner, protein yoghurt and black beans everywhere seems to be out of stock lately. I grabbed the last two tins. That's a weekend total of £115.74.

New totals £192.91 / £470.00

Enjoy the sunshine 

carboot_karaoke

@karenccs67 I'm very sorry to hear about your situation l agree with everyone's comments about trying to look after yourself as well as your husband xx 

thriftwizard

@karenccs67, wishing you & your OH peace & strength as you face this together, and - really don't worry about the budget, you have enough on your plate.

Ashamed to say I've completely lost track here: I probably need to add about £50 for last weekend's market spend, but I really have no way to confirm that as it was all cash & there have been plenty of other calls on my cash supplies these last few days! Many of them related to one of the cats being "gated"... she's been beaten up for the 3rd time, expensively, by another cat, and had to be sedated & stitched back together again. I'm blisteringly busy business-wise for this week & have simply lost track. I'll try to work it out sensibly after the coming weekend.

@PipneyJane, if you have storage for a 25kg sack, Wilton Wholefoods do organic oats at a very reasonable price, though some of that may be down to the fact I'm not far from Wilton, hence the transportation's extremely cheap - less than it'd cost me to drive there!

ETA: on checking Wilton Wholefoods' site - they haven't any organic oats listed at the moment! Sigh...

K9sandFelines

I'm officially joining you now today.
£13.79 spent today between Bread and Butter thing and Tesc@.

Used  the Jam Doughnut app for the first time to claim cashback. So will be doing that again in future. 
£6.01 cashback for joining and loading £25 between two gift cards (Tesc@ and B and M)

Also, £14.77 at Amaz@n on agave, black beans, jackfruit and pepsi max cherry cans