June 2025 Grocery Challenge

otb666

580/600 @mandco I have a shopping list on kitchen table that we add anything on we want. Then when we are in aldi we stick to the list. if not on list we dont get it. Since hubby been on monjo injection he has got a lot cheaper. Does not eat steaks anymore. Only got veg shop on friday now so on budget.  The 55p chocolate i buy in aldi has disappeared and had to buy the 1.55 one. Gutted as will not now buy every week. We have a whiteboard where we put our spends as we are on a joint income £27000 pa we cannot overspend as we dont work now.  I am quite impressed how we have managed as previously when working has a terrible habit of going over.our income.  @Nelliegrace I have frozen fruits as well.  I like wizzing them from freezer with milk for cooling milkshakes. The mango and the cherries frozen are this weeks selection.

PipneyJane

Good evening All

I have two small shops to declare:  £7.22 in MrT’s and £2.35 in Sainsbugs.  We ran out of yoghurt and, since we like the big tubs of Yeo Valley, I did a comparison of the offers on both supermarkets’ websites.  MrT’s Clubcard offer on 450ml tubs was 25p better than the best Nectar/smartshop price at Sainsbugs, and applied to more flavours, so guess where I headed after work?  Amazingly, it only took me 13 minutes to get to MrT’s and the shop was deserted!  Anyway, 4 tubs picked up for £1.50 each plus 2 YS 400g punnets of mushrooms at 61p each.

On the way home, I stopped at Sainsbugs, parked in the coolest part of their multi-storey car park, and headed in for some loose carrots (40p), loose broccoli (81p) and a bunch of spring onions 54p (offer).  Was surprised to find that they had reusable produce bags in stock, so purchased 2 at 30p each.  I had to use the Smartshop App to get the offer on the spring onions.

The above brings our total spend to £155/£165 leaving £10 for the rest of the month.

Now to figure out what we’re going to eat for the next few days…. Hmmm….  DH doesn’t like hot food on a hot day, so I’m thinking of making some sort of bean salad, since I have cans of 3 bean mix and spring onion, plus another potato salad.  Will need to buy peppers, but I’ll get those at L!dl on my way home from work tomorrow.  (Sainsbug’s were not good.  I didn’t think about it when I was in MrT’s.)

- Pip

K9sandFelines

K9sandFelines said:

Also,  I've had some gf.flour delivered; but not sure I'm keeping it for the price (so not adding that yet).

Flour isn't refundable , as through a third party seller.
So that £7.88 to add to spends. Also, four toilet rolls to add from my own stores, two previous ones and two I'll need to pull out tomorrow.

So £7.88 and £2.60 = £10.48

themsthebreaks

A couple of spends to report:

£5 at the Local Pantry on Tuesday.
£15.75 in H&B yesterday
£98.50 on an Iceland shop coming tomorrow. (I may need to revise that amount, depending on stock issues).

So, £324.14/400.00 spent, leaving £75.86 for the next 10 days. I’m pleased with this month, but stores have been depleted, so I can only hope we will be able to stick to it next month.

GSDMum

Keeping to plan I visited Morrisons this morning and spent £55.34 on food. Mainly went to Morrisons for their fresh fish. It was rather early, the fishmonger hadn't finished setting out his wares. Bought a doz fresh sardines for tonight's dinner, couple cod loins, 2 haddock filets, and from the chilled cabinet prepared scampi and some prawns for a 'prawn korma' later in the week. When I got home I popped the scampi and the prawns in the freezer for a few days. That's almost a week's worth of dinners sorted. Other things I bought were milk, cream, couple french sticks, salad ingredients, rolls, water for the steam iron, slices of ham, dog treats, easy peel oranges, couple packs of crumpets... 

I'm trying to keep to a monthly average of £350 for groceries over the year. So far the average is running at £363.48. If I hit my target of £250 for July, I might be slap bang on track by the end of July. Hoping I can hold out shopping till next Friday, I'll be needing to pick up a few bits and pieces then. 

goldfinches

Which have just published the results of this year's sun cream tests which you can see here. The good news is that both Aldi and Lidl ones passed and were judged best value, the bad news is that a Morrisons and an Ultrasun one didn't so do have a look at the article before you buy any more sunscreen.

Soontobeoap

2 shops done in Aldi since my last report amounting to £31.52 in total. Also when I did meal plan I forgot that DH was having a procedure today which meant not eating for almost 2 days so I have been using up salad stuff and we definitely have enough main meals until the end of the month. Every cloud has a silver lining.

Another £9.95 pent on treats for DH after his procedure. He fancied pasty and biscuits, butter and Doritos.

carboot_karaoke

Evening all,  

I hope you have all been enjoying the sunshine 🌞 

My apologies l haven't had a chance to read through all the posts l missed while away. I just wanted to declare a spend from today restocking the CK household.  Lots of fruit, veg and salad and the meat we need for this week's dinners.  

Total spent £69.54.

New totals £351.52 / £446. I have £94.48 remaining 

Suffolk_lass

It's really interesting, reading through the posts on here, how many of us have reduced the UPF we are buying. Lots of the recent posts are "I bought meat, fish, salad, fruit and veg. Me too with two exceptions. I bought egg tagliatelle. It was that (£2.60) at three times the price of the non-egg, or make my own. Durum wheat, egg and a little salt. And a bag of own brand chilli tortilla chips. Now the latter definitely fall into the UPF bracket. I did do that shop in M&S though so paid a premium. £5 for beautiful strawberries that were £3.90 in Morries last time is one example. I am paying a premium but the quality is noticeably different.

I am struggling to stay under £300 this month, but it is berry season. Our own fruit is ripening but the strawberry plants I was sent were mostly dead-looking when they arrived and have confirmed my suspicions, by not producing, so it is only the runners we moved that are giving us strawberries. The dessert gooseberries are changing colour, and are protected from the pigeon this year. Raspberries are incoming, apples, plums and gages have a way to go and the currants (red and black) are fighting off the aphids and ants that farm them. Oh and the rhubarb is reliably producing a few sticks a week. It all helps.

With lettuce, chard and pac choi maturing it will be lots of salads and stirfry here.

K9sandFelines

DD1 picked up a 1kg tub of Flora buttery for me yesterday, some oxos and spring onions. So I've added £6.74 to signature. Plus £1.70 for two Yubi bars from stores.

Today I want to get some red peppers from Ald!s whilst still on offer. Also bananas. Not sure what else I need, but going to try and keep the spends as low as possible.