June 2025 Grocery Challenge

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Evening All,

l have 3 more spends to declare from today. I went to Asda this morning for bacon, cheese, cream cheese, hand wash and squash. Then came home to discover we needed bread, leeks and peppers...argh. On my second visit l also picked up a reduced ready meal for tomorrows lunch, and a bananas.

l've been feeling unwell so l also went to home bargains for Vit C tablets, paracetamol, throat sweets and colour catcher sheets. While there l spotted the toothpaste l like for 59p so l brought 10. 

Total spent across the three shops £30.04.

New Total £210.79 / £446

C_J

weenancyinAmerica said:

I could live for a week on that C_J. Wow. Egg and cress sandwich sounds good right now. Afraid to go out to get anything at the store at the moment as ICE agents are just up the street. I do carry my old passport with me just in case. 

Can't find apricots anywhere - and this is supposed to be apricot season around here. Very frustrated. 

I do pretty much live for a week on the things from the Community Fridge, there is very little extra that I have to buy. I know nothing lasts for ever so I don’t let myself expect to find such amazing hauls every week, but I do avail myself of them - very gratefully - while they are there. Such a lovely bunch of people too, both the other customers and the volunteers who run it. It’s a bit of a drive from where I live, but so worth the time and effort!

How terrifying for you @weenancyinAmerica to have scary Immigration agents out on the streets, that must feel very unsettling. When I worked in Hong Kong it was against the law to be out on the street without carrying your ID card, you got used to it but I never really liked it.

Soontobeoap

£2.94 on milk and bread for us today.

GSDMum

Crikey @weenancyinAmerica, ICE Agents sound a bit scary. Do keep safe! 

Two shops to report. Had a Tesco delivery this morning as I needed some heavy stuff like bottled water, potatoes, water melon, etc. That came to £76.81. Seeing I had to drive DH for a blood test today, I took the opportunity to nip into Morrisons for fresh fish on the way back home which came to £18.33. Bought some sardines (could still smell the sea) which we had for supper together with a French stick I bought. Also bought king prawns (for scampi) and some cod loin for 'fish'n'chip Friday'. DH is going through a fish phase at the mo;)

Total spent this month so far £174.34. Budget is £270.

We could last quite a while before shopping again, but I'm planning my next shop for Monday at an Aldi. It will be  something to do while I wait for DH's hospital treatment to finish. I'll be stocking up with Aldi sea salt butter while there, it's 50p cheaper than Tesco's and just as tasty. 

Someone mentioned on this thread that reporting grocery spends on here is like a 'confessional' - I can so relate to this. 

weenancyinAmerica

On my street, there are people from Iran, China, Korea, Vietnam, and several from Mexico. some of them are afraid to go shopping at all. took a bag of food to my neighbors. The children have been doing the shopping for their family as all born in US. Will be taking them some more later. I got enough food for us to last till next week at least so we don't have to go shopping. Roommate G went out walking for his vodka though and Roommate Di is at her chime class. It is scary though, and the closer we get to Saturday, the worse it will be. I will not be watching any parade on Saturday, even if it is the 250th anniversary of the Army birthday. My father was in the service and he would not approve either.

goldfinches

@weenancyinAmerica - those ICE agents sound frightening, I'm sorry you're having to live like this. (((Hugs))) from across the Atlantic.
@C_J - I'm also interested in the contents of your haul so thanks for posting from memory. I have fond recollections of the Generation Game especially the rounds where they had to copy an expert demonstration; there was one I particularly recall that involved icing and stacking a tiered cake, the failures were epic!

Anyway I have some spends to confess here too as I've made my classic and oft repeated mistake of just popping in to the supermarket for one or two things and then falling for any number of "bargains that'll be useful in the future"! So first I went into Sainsby's yesterday and bought tofu, olive oil, flour, 3x coconut milk, beetroot, rose water, radishes and wholemeal roti which came to £20.45. On the same trip the Baking Fund bought coconut oil, 2x vegan double cream, sesame snaps, 2x vegan chocolate and waffle cones which came to £14.20. Then I nipped into M*rks this morning and bought yoghurt, gherkins, milk and tomatoes which came to £7.10 and the Baking Fund snapped up a ys gluten free loaf for the freezer.
In slightly more heartening news the Baking Fund received a donation of £20 in cash last week from one of the walking group members which was nice and the first time that has happened too.

So that makes my new GC total is £80.48/£150 and the Baking Fund now stands at £22.25/£40.

I've also just realised that I need more washing powder and handwash liquid this week but hopefully that's it until next week, fingers crossed.

ETA: Whoops, I meant to say that I didn't bake this week after realising that the freezer was bulging with the leftovers from previous weeks so I hauled everything out yesterday evening and left it all on the side to defrost overnight. Then this morning I taste tested it all and then packed everything into my rucksack and took it out with us so now I have more space in the freezer.

AnotherNewDay

First spend of the month to report £30.80 for the human/household and £9.99 for the cats

Nelliegrace

First cherries and strawberries from the garden, a treat. Blackberries in flower. 

goldfinches

I'm just popping my head round the door to claim a NSD as I resisted the lure of the supermarket today. I also picked some gooseberries at my allotment and have spotted that a neighbour's cherries are ripe but they don't seem to be picking them so I'm planning to go round and ask if I can pick some to share with them. Raspberries are ripening fast here and all the brambles are flowering like crazy as are the roses so roll on rose hip syrup and bramble jelly. The sloes, figs and apples are coming along nicely too, fingers crossed for more sunshine with gentle night-time showers.

LadyWithAPlan

weenancyinAmerica said:

I could live for a week on that C_J. Wow. Egg and cress sandwich sounds good right now. Afraid to go out to get anything at the store at the moment as ICE agents are just up the street. I do carry my old passport with me just in case. 

Can't find apricots anywhere - and this is supposed to be apricot season around here. Very frustrated. 

i am so sorry, this whole ICE thing seems so scary. I was in Miami when TR*** came into power and my friend who works in the construction industry said 3 days later ICE was turning up on their sites...So sorry to hear re your neighbours as well, living in fear must ne so hard and not what the 'Land of the free' was supposed to be about. I was planning to pop into the US from Canada this summer but that is now definitely not happening.

@C_J what a haul!

goldfinches said:

Anyway I have some spends to confess here too as I've made my classic and oft repeated mistake of just popping in to the supermarket for one or two things and then falling for any number of "bargains that'll be useful in the future"! 

Goldfinches - this was me today .. I had ran out of coffee so popped into Sains on way back from seeing a friend for coffee - this is why I used to buy my coffee in bulk at Amazon  as its the one thing I cant run off..

More food shopping   £13.83 so now  £126.74/£200 spent ...   
I also bought an organic cauli as had a delicious chickpea, pistacho and shaved cauli salad last week at lunch in a vinegary/creamy sauce so I am planning to try to make a version.
Plus 3 for 2 frozen berries, and some DF butter reduced plus passata, and some sweets with a competition on