June 2025 Grocery Challenge

remmie

Another spend of £79.16, which brings my total so far to £166.19, over half my budget and we're not halfway through the month. Although in my defence I did bulk buy a few items, dog food, coffee and loo roll, which pushed the cost up.

I'm thinking that next month i will try a different approach to my budget, just need to work it out.

£166.19/£300.00

goldfinches

Evening all, thankfully it's been dry here today so I haven't got a load of wet through clothes to deal with. I do wish the weather would make up its mind what temperature it wants to be though, I keep having to dive back into my thermals at short notice.

Anyway, I finally managed to track down my usual frozen fruit at Mr T's thanks to some sterling help from one of the staff who was gone so long searching the back that I really thought he must have forgotten all about me: but no, he staggered out with a box full and refilled the empty shelf too. I spent £12.72 on 2 x frozen fruit, ys oranges, pink onions (which I feel a bit guilty about as they're from NZ), ys chinese leaf, ys jersey royals, a dish brush and ys easy peelers. 

That makes my new GC total £52.93/£150

I'm still having fun deciding what to bake this week and have narrowed it down to a repeat of Nigella's Triple Chocolate Buckwheat Cookies, Katarina Cermelj's Pecan Banana Bread or Surina Seghal's No-bake Dark Chocolate and Nut Tart made as individual tarts. Votes on a postcard please!

C_J

I vote for the No Bake Dark Chocolate and Nut tartlets! They look delicious.

Money_Choices

Hi Elsiepac
My Grocery budget for June is £150.00. I’ve spent £88.24 so far which leaves £61.76 for the rest of the month.

Money Choices

thriftwizard

Sigh. Another £30.39 gone; I did need to replace a few items to make my lunches - which need to be very portable, but also contain lots of fibre & preferably some ferments too - and make dinners very easy as I'm just about dropping when I stagger in! I'd forgotten just how physical archaeology can be... we're a mile away from our cars, let alone the nearest shop, and spending a lot of time kneeling and leaning forward over a pit or ditch whilst scraping away. But it's great fun & good company.

That said, DD2's cooking tomorrow night, bless her, and there's a fair chance we'll be rained-off on Thursday. And I'm immensely cheered to remember the amount of options clobbering up my freezer - now is their chance to shine!

Blackcats

C_J said:

I vote for the No Bake Dark Chocolate and Nut tartlets! They look delicious.

@goldfinches  - They get my vote too although it was a tough choice.

Blackcats

We went to Lidl's yesterday with a list which we mostly stuck to and which helped us avoid spontaneous purchases of inflatable kayaks etc.  I noticed a fair few price increases and I'd roughly calculated £70 for the shop but it was closer to £75.
I bought a punnet of strawberries and a chunk of watermelon from our greengrocer using a £5 note I found in my pocket.  Isn't it great when you find forgotten money?

£230 remaining.

weenancyinAmerica

Avocados jumped a $1 since Friday. Most prices up by a lot today here. We stuck to our list though except for the fact that Aldis had my size clogs (2/3 childrens) so I bought a pair to be my summer shoes (only $5). I also got chips for which I will be reimbursed as they are to go to the young people who help out with our book sales at the library. They do most of the cart moving which helps as 9 of our members are over 65 (three are 87). And the younger mostly work that day and aren't available to help move carts. Our food prices will probably go up a lot more over the next few months as no one knows what is going on with the tariffs. Will probably need to start going to our town farmer's market again as they have had the best prices. I just need to get a garden hose for my backyard and I can start growing things here. Saving up for some raised beds in the back yard. 

LadyWithAPlan

Suffolk_lass said:

LadyWithAPlan said:

Morries spend today: £16.83 today on lots green veg, salad and some pork loin, they dont do FR or corn fed chickens so I wouldnt buy one.
£16.83/£200

@LadyWithAPlan Oh yes they do... here's a link

Thanks, my local one does not but maybe I should think about home delivery

@goldfinches the pecan banana bread wins my vote

weenancyinAmerica said:

Avocados jumped a $1 since Friday. Most prices up by a lot today here. ....Our food prices will probably go up a lot more over the next few months as no one knows what is going on with the tariffs. Will probably need to start going to our town farmer's market again as they have had the best prices. I just need to get a garden hose for my backyard and I can start growing things here. Saving up for some raised beds in the back yard. 

Ouch!! I am aware how prices have gone up in the UK (my FR cornfed chickens in the same store from £6 to more like £11 now) but $1 over a weekend..

Groceries £92.90/£200 
As I had family here Saturday with lots of allergies and food preferences I kept buying bits! However most of it was not cooked so my freezer is now bulging... I do need more organic spinach but protein I have plenty of it)

Suffolk_lass

Ah @LadyWithAPlan, the thing about delivery is someone else choosing your stuff versus the removal of temptation (the temptation is there in the app with suggestions, but going back in for a cull before ordering helps.

Over here I did an indulgent M&S F&V shop with steaks for DH, who meeds building up. £77.85 spent which should last another week