June 2025 Grocery Challenge

goldfinches

Evening all, hope you all had a lovely day. It's cooled down just a little bit here which is a lot more bearable, when I went to the library this morning I felt as though I was melting; I'm sure all that sweat can't be good for the books!

I have three spends to add as I've mostly been eating from the allotment this week which has been lovely.
First I bought another jar of gherkins and 2x tubs of yoghurt from M*rks for £6.40. Then I spent £2.80 at Mr T's on milk and a ys iceberg lettuce. Then this morning I spent £11.10 at M*rks on 2x ys posh butter, ys wholemeal wraps, decaf instant coffee, a cucumber and another tub of yoghurt as it was in stock and isn't always there.

That makes my new GC total £148.22/£150   

I did have a ruthless clean out of the freezer yesterday morning and yanked out a lot of things to be eaten in the next few days so there's hope but not much I fear.

JingsMyBucket

Evening. I’ve got a few spends to declare; three are from yesterday and one was today.

£13.17 at M & S for a large tray of strawberries, 2 bunches of bananas, 5 cans of baked beans, coffee beans, and garlic. 

£1.75 at Iceland for a box of Mr. Freeze pops. 

£42.06 on a Morrisons delivery with loads of yoghurt and kefir, 210 Yorkshire Tea bags, pasta, peanut butter, Worcestershire sauce, and rice packets. 

£2.30 at M & S today for lemons and a jar of pesto. 

£383.87 / £325 spent. £58.87 overspent.  

We still need dishwasher tablets and a few items from Lidl. I’m heading there tomorrow and hopefully that’ll be it for the rest of the month. 

mandco

£4.44 to add from yesterday on milk bread bananas & some ys mixed berries. popped to my local express store to stay out if the main supermarket and ended up paying a ridiculous £2.15 for a carton of lactose free milk as they only had the branded stuff. Yes it is more expensive anyway but an additional 40p mark up on the usual price because it’s an express store is taking the… 

elsiepac

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Hope everyone is surviving the heat so far, gonna be another hot weekend...(bring on winter, 
I hate the warm weather lol)

PipneyJane

mandco said:

£4.44 to add from yesterday on milk bread bananas & some ys mixed berries. popped to my local express store to stay out if the main supermarket and ended up paying a ridiculous £2.15 for a carton of lactose free milk as they only had the branded stuff. Yes it is more expensive anyway but an additional 40p mark up on the usual price because it’s an express store is taking the… 

Was it a Sainsbug's express store, by any chance @mandco?  I rarely go into theirs but, unlike the MrT's express that I used to visit occasionally, I find that the Sainsbug's version don't stock their own brand.   (The last time I went to that Sainsbug's, it didn't even have a slot for own-brand bread.)

L!dl have the cheapest Lactose Free milk, at 99p per 1L carton.

HTH

- Pip

K9sandFelines

C_J said:

@K9sandFelines Yes, please report back and let me know how your chutney turned out. As suspected there were more nectarines available today from the Community Fridge so I plan to make jam and chutney tomorrow or Friday.

My £1 donation yielded this from the Fridge today:

A few potatoes (I didn't need many, but they had loads if I'd wanted them)
Leeks
Fresh ginger
Garlic
Large pack of stir fry veg
Carrots
Bag of beansprouts
Little gem lettuce
Bag of rocket
1 pack of kale
Large vine-ripened tomatoes
Avocadoes
Bunch of spring onions
Lots of apples
Nectarines
Oranges
Lemons
2 bananas
1 x pineapple
1 punnet of giant blackberries
1 small loaf sourdough
1 potted thyme plant
1 large tub mango yogurt
2 small lemon drizzle cakes
2 Pret bircher muesli breakfast pots
1 Pret egg mayo sandwich
1 Waitrose chicken and stuffing sandwich
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 pack of 4 vegetable samosas
1 pack sliced roast ham
1 pack pepperami chicken bites (these were forced on me!)

Less than last week I think, but still plenty and certainly all that I need or can use.

I'm using one of the chicken breasts with the stir fry veg for tonight's dinner, the apples, oranges, lemons, ginger and pineapple will be turned into various fruit teas (I already have some honey for this).

This takes my June grocery total to £73.25/£150

Already done. Above this post.
So jealous of your haul. I wish there was something like that here. Would definitely make the grocery shop less stressful.
I'm thankful for small mercies though, that I can use the Bread and Butter thing.

remmie

Sadly I have lost the plot this month, DH going shopping and getting treats like ice cream and gin and tonic has left me all over the place. I think the total is hovering around or just over £300. I'll try and round up receipts and check the bank account, hopefully I can sort it out.

carboot_karaoke

Morning all,

I have two small spends to declare totalling £4.47 l know l brought some seasonings but cant remember what the others costs were. Oh actually, salad was definitely included.

This brings our new total to £376.18 / £446

However, everything needs a restock from rice to washing tabs, toilet roll and black bags. Plus my food cupboards look like Old Mother Hubbard's. Because its so close to the end of the month instead of trying to apportion the big shop cost over two months. I'm going to declare for June now and rollover the saving to up July's budget.

See you on the July thread 

Working_Mum

Hello everyone, 
where has this month gone!!

I'm declaring June at £250.94  for food and £80.24 for household / dog etc. Overall I'm quite happy with it - the food budget included a couple of train picnics as I've been away for a couple of nights in the month. The household budget is an overrun because I ran out of dog food in the last week of the month - so I'm chalking it up as a timing issue.

Will subscribe the July thread.

Wishing everyone a smashing weekend,

((WM))

Nelliegrace

I don’t feel like cooking in this weather so plenty of salads and sandwiches, and if he is not in for meals because of his bowls matches, all day and every day, I am not preparing his meals. The cook is on strike! It has been more frugal of late.