June 2025 Grocery Challenge

remmie

Thanks elsiepac for the new thread.

I also feel my spending is getting out if control, and I am almost at half my yearly budget already. This month I  must try harder.

£300 for June 

This is for 2 retired adults and 1 large dog, and includes everything, food, cleaning materials, alcohol and dog food. I know I can do this, it's when I get in the supermarket all common sense goes!

Good luck everyone.

GSDMum

Thank you @elsiepac for running the monthly grocery challenges. 

This month I'd like to keep under 

£270

for my DH and myself. Over the four 'completed' months of this year our average monthly grocery total has been £350, but I'm afraid this could change to £370 after May's total is added. Therefore, I'm hoping in June to get the average back to £350. If I can keep battling inflation I'll be happy.

Our menu appears to have changed rather a lot too, we're now into 'salad days', plus my DH appears to have gone off meat, he'd rather have fresh fish these days! Frozen lasagnas, cottage pies, casseroles, etc. will be languishing in the freezer longer than anticipated. 

Good luck everyone! 

TravelCrystal

Morning everyone 
Many thanks @elsiepac for the June thread.
I am going to have a Bulk Fund for wine and large meat supplies. So long as I spend less than last year in total I will be happy.

June budget please £400

We are on holiday in June and will be taking D.S 2 out for a meal which comes out of the GC budget.
So far for bulk fund wine delivery will be £136.88 and Meat will be £153.94

Hopefully I have left enough room in our freezers as I went to Farm Foods and stocked up. Also included tins of tuna which should last for the rest of the year and a few other tinned items. I am including this as a start to June
So £94.10/£400 

T.C

Suffolk_lass

£200 for me this month to get back on track. Mr Sl has his operation tomorrow and hopefully, our completely different diets can be revised so we both do mine after that. Our spend for May is over £300. Apart from Decembers (at least the last five) I am sure this is more than any May for years!

JingsMyBucket

Thanks @elsiepac for running the grocery challenge. May is turning out to be a massacre of our budget and I’m going to try pulling it back in again. We’ll be away for a week in Edinburgh attending a conference so the second week of the month will use a different budget line item. Our goal for this month is: 

£325 for June 1 — 30 for us (2 adults). 

Good luck everyone! 

goldfinches

Thanks for running this thread @elsiepac, if I hadn't had the support and good suggestions from all the other commenters on here I'd have an astronomical supermarket bill because I simply cannot resist an interesting new ingredient nor can I pass a "that might come in handy" item without adding it to my trolley. Please put me down for

£150 for the main GC to cover all food for one active vegetarian woman as well as household essentials and basic toiletries, (alcohol and treats are a separate budget), 
£20 for the Baking Budget because there are 4 Wednesdays in June and a Bulk Buy Fund of £86.02.

I mean to stay out of the shops this month by trying some home deliveries and also eating more salad leaves etc. from my allotment so we'll see how this strategy goes, fingers firmly crossed and will power on full ahead.

themsthebreaks

My first post, and I would like to join in please. We have a budget of £400 in June for a family of three. This is with trying to reign in spending as the possibility of redundancy is looming. At the moment we are in limbo until we know what is happening, but I am looking at where we can cut costs, in case the worse does comes to the worse.

C_J

@themsthebreaks Welcome aboard! This is a really supportive, friendly and helpful thread. 😊

TravelCrystal

Welcome to @themsthebreaks as said, we are very supportive here and all have different circumstances, budgets and ideas.
A friendly bunch and it has certainly helped me
T.C

Naturelover22

Hello all,

Please could I join for the month.
Have reviewed our finances and need to get spending under control.
This is for 2 working adults and 2 cats. All food, everyday household, cleaning, toiletres and cat food/litter.
We will actually be away on holiday for a week which will be a separate budget so technically should come under this for the everyday (fingers crossed!)

£230 for 1st June to 30th June.