June 2025 Grocery Challenge

Soontobeoap

Good luck @PipneyJane.

My chicken went even further than I thought. DH didn't fancy a chicken sandwich for lunch yesterday so I used it up and made 3 chicken patties. We used to have them when our kids were little but they are one of the things we had forgotten. Completely made from stuff in stores so nothing spent here today. They have been tucked away in freezer as I had 2 baked potatoes left from Friday so I fried them up with bacon egg and some tinned tomatoes that have been lurking for a while. Didn't use all the tomatoes so have frozen the rest to go into a sauce when I need one. Boiled eggs with cold bacon bits for sandwiches tomorrow.

@Quantaqa I too have a DH who nips to the shops whenever he thinks we need something, usually for lunch . I have learned that when he says I have to nip to Aldi/ Sainsburys/ Tesco's today I immediately say What for? This allows us both to stop and evaluate for a minute. Then I tell him I am going to use up marmalade/ jam  or whatever for my lunch which results in him thinking about what we have in the house first. It has taken me 2 years though. I have limited his nipping to about once or twice a week now! There is still room for improvement but I was very impressed today.when he said we needed to fo for loo rolls. I asked him if he had been taking lots out of the pkt and he counted them along with the ones in bathrooms and then informed me we were ok for a couple of weeks? Progress indeed. Don't give up hope. 🤣

Nancydrew74

Hi everyone

Stocked up on some fresh fruit and yogurt today. 

£23.51/£200

  

Yano

I'd like to join, please.

£400 for me in June please.

This is for 2 adults and 2 kids. All meals, toiletries and household products. 

I've already spent £128 on a big shop, so I have £272 left. 

JingsMyBucket

Morning y’all. I had a quick run around the shops this morning. 

£17.62 at Savers for toothpaste, Fairy dish liquid (only 89p), a big box of Bold detergent and a 3.5L bottle of Dettol laundry cleanser. The cleanser should last us until early September. Mr. Jings uses Fairy non-bio detergent while I use Bold bio detergent for my clothes and the sheets/towels. That Bold box should last us until at least October, possibly November. 

£4.80 at M & S for clementines and 6 cans of baked beans for Mr. Jings. He gets 2 breakfast servings from each 45p can so those will serve him nearly 2 weeks. 

£1.00 at Poundland for trash bags. 

£70.65 / £325 spent. £254.35 total remaining.  

Hands back in my pockets for the rest of the week. I may get some more fruit on Saturday or Sunday. We head to Edinburgh on the following Tuesday for 5 days and I’ve booked a Tesco order for when we return on June 14th. 

Soontobeoap

Another £6.63 spent today on jersey royal potato's, milk, carrots and non bio washing powder from Aldi.

LadyWithAPlan

goldfinches said:

Welcome back to @LadyWithAPlan and wondered if you and @Soontobeoap had seen this review of gluten free plain flours by Becky Excell in today's Guardian, a useful comparison I thought and very sensible to include prices too.

Tx!!  yes I did see the article - I do tend to always buy the D*ve one anyway, but good to see there are increasing alternatives to try.

Morries spend today: £16.83 today on lots green veg, salad and some pork loin, they dont do FR or corn fed chickens so I wouldnt buy one.
£16.83/£200


The soup I made from my Corn fed chicken stock - all greens either wilting (watercress, broccoli) plus frozen broad beans  lots of paprika, cumin, dash of apple cider vinegar etc was actually one of the best I have made in years !!

My neighbour gave me a free airfryer and I am enjoying using it - largely as I dont need to add extra fat. Yet to actually crisp something in it mind you - only done burgers, chicken breast and pork so far.

themsthebreaks

My first spend of the month, today.

I joined a local food pantry, and spent £5 there. Then I went into Farmfoods and spent £20.35, followed by a visit to Aldi, which came to £51.49, so a total spend of £76.84/£400.00.

The food pantry was good. For £5, I got:

A family steak pie.
Oven chips. 

Orange juice. 

Cream crackers.

Noodles.
Chickpeas.
Baked beans.
Oat biscuits.
Brown sauce.
A box of tissues.

Baby corn. 

Potatoes. 

Parsnips. 

Grapes. 

Potato cakes. 

You get three heart products, seven diamond products, and the fruit/vegetables/bread items, are free 😊

Edited to add: I don’t know why it’s spaced out like that. Sorry.

thriftwizard

Eeeeek! First spend of June is a mahoosive £197.27, between a long-overdue L!dls visit & the wholesalers, re-stocking after the madness that was May! I'm suspecting I will be pushed over budget this month by time factors; I'll be down a hole in the ground for a fair proportion of the month so will need to plan ruthlessly, otherwise the Other Inhabitants (OH, DD2 & DS3) may run riot with the "contingency" fund. We have no visitors scheduled in June, though DD1 & BF and DS2 & family can & probably will drop in for the odd meal at short notice. 

I'm seeing from the bank account that we didn't actually go too far astray in May, although we did run the store cupboard dangerously low as I never got to a budget supermarket. But, that's what it's for! Hey ho, it's one way of ensuring the contents don't go out of date... 😉

Quantaqa

Soontobeoap said:

@Quantaqa I too have a DH who nips to the shops whenever he thinks we need something, usually for lunch . I have learned that when he says I have to nip to Aldi/ Sainsburys/ Tesco's today I immediately say What for? This allows us both to stop and evaluate for a minute. Then I tell him I am going to use up marmalade/ jam  or whatever for my lunch which results in him thinking about what we have in the house first. It has taken me 2 years though. I have limited his nipping to about once or twice a week now! There is still room for improvement but I was very impressed today.when he said we needed to fo for loo rolls. I asked him if he had been taking lots out of the pkt and he counted them along with the ones in bathrooms and then informed me we were ok for a couple of weeks? Progress indeed. Don't give up hope. 🤣

Thanks @Soontobeoap .  I had a good chat with DH about this and since then he has not been to the shops.  We've agreed some strategies going forward and one of them is to return to both of us doing a weekly shop together, and being honest about what we actually need for the week.  That might include snacks etc for example.  So I am delighted to report zero spend since my last post. We are using up bits from the freezer and pantry for this weeks food plan.  I like the idea of us being more resourceful and seeing what we have in the house that we can make into a great dinner or lunch rather than always popping to the shops.

Auntycaz

@PipneyJane the Gressingham duck livers in Sainsburys are £1 with nectar price starting tomorrow until the 24th   in case you need to stock up some more. Hope this helps.