June 2025 Grocery Challenge

C_J

£12 spent today on dog food, bringing my total for June to £34.08/£150.

carboot_karaoke

Afternoon Everyone,

l have another spend to declare £71.19 was spent in Tesco's to cover the coming weeks meals, High ticket items were 2kg of chicken thigh £5,1kg of pork steaks £5.50 and, fabric conditioner £4.50.

New totals 281.98 / £446 

TravelCrystal

Good evening everyone, just back from my holiday. Glanced through the recent posts and I know I should be acknowledging, apologies for not doing so, amazing what can happen in 5 days.
Anyway just a quick post to say we spent £196.55 while we were away. Not too bad considering we ate out a lot . 

Lovely farm shop on our way up and 3 National Trust places included while we were away.  Their lunch prices are not too bad. An evening meal out when we met DS2 and a meal out for our last night 

Brings the June total to £337.59/£400

Have a great weekend all

T.C

JingsMyBucket

carboot_karaoke thanks for the heads up about the 1kg of pork steaks in Tesco. I’ve edited my order to add a pack of them. 

K9sandFelines

£1.72 spend from my own stores to report.

Then £5.00 spent in savers on toilet bowl discs and refills, and £1.00 on soya milk in Tesco.

£7.72 to add

t14cy_t

olio came up trumps again last night. lots of filled rolls and cakes perfect for visiting 5 of my grandchildren today! also received 4 packs of raspberies, a salad, tomatoes and 2 packs of jersey royals. ive been getting lots of free smug cheese through the checkoutsmart app too...

remmie

Another shop of £75.39, which means I will have to very careful for the rest of the month. It hasn't been helped by OH going to the supermarket for ice cream and returning with a bottle of gin and some tonic water! He said the weather was right for a long g&t with ice, which to be fair it was. I think next month I will cut alcohol out of my grocery budget and put it in a treat budget instead, as OH said, if we went for a drink in a pub we wouldn't take it out if the grocery budget.

£241.58/£300.00

Nelliegrace

Grocery Budget for June £150.

Shopping for the week on the way home after a lovely afternoon at David Austin Roses.

I was going to buy soft cheese, but when did manufacturers start adulterating it with the citrus fibre, a waste product of the citrus juicing process? What if the labelling laws insisted on the word ADULTERATED in bold, red letters when a the food, drink and tobacco industry have added stuff to food to increase profits. I won’t buy chocolate with added soya lecithin, or sausages with bamboo fibre.

It is an old problem, the Victorians tried to improve standards by An Act for Preventing the Adulteration of Articles of Food and Drink, (6th August 1860.) Now tiny letters on the back of a packet seem to make extra ingredients legal.

I bought Mascarpone, and shall freeze some portions because it goes off quickly once it is opened. The lid is just foil now.

£19.41 spent.

Total Spent £44.89

JingsMyBucket

Evening, grocery folk! Tesco sent the receipt for the delivery coming tonight. It came to £105.27 and covered a lot of bulk items that I can only get at Tesco. I’m planning to stay away from there for the remainder of the month and only shop in M & S and Lidl until the end. 

The order covers the usual vast quantities of various yoghurts, 48 rolls of toilet paper (2 packs £11), herbs, butter, milk, 1kg pork shoulder steaks (I won’t have to lug these from Lidl), sausages and bacon, smoked salmon, Boursin cheese (on sale!), 2 packs of sliced ham, 2 rolls of shortcrust pastry, mushrooms, onions, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, frozen spinach and cubed butternut squash, frozen fish fingers, ice cream cones, frozen croissants, frozen waffles, canned peaches & pears, granola, bananas and oranges, bouillon powder, some other treats, bleach, and HG mould spray. 

The only things we may need this coming week would be eggs, berries, and coffee, I think. The garden’s raised beds have started producing salad leaves and I think carrots are coming up next. I’ll check with Mr. Jings as that’s his domain. 

I need to do some stocktaking and meal planning to get my head around using our resources the rest of the month. 

£243.04 / £325 spent. £81.96 total remaining.  

K9sandFelines

Just used a £10 off code to buy some things from Just Eat. This voucher is only applicable at S@insbury's; so I've  tried to keep it the best value as possible. I'd go out to Aldi, but my ankles and knees have swollen up, so trying to keep off my feet as much as possible. As I have no other means to get stuff; this seemed like the best option and it's nigh on the same price when all added up, as i just did a rough check on Aldi.co.uk
After this, I am going to try and only use The Bread and Butter thing and Heron. Unless it's something like soya milk, which is cheapest at Aldi or Tesco. 

These are today's spends : 

Edited to say, sweet potatoes were out of stock; so they part refunded some of the service charge and item amount