June 2025 Grocery Challenge

WickedLady4

@C_J We have several community Fridges here in MK but yours sounds amazing! I think you might be a short distance from me too

Soontobeoap

Our local poundland is shutting down in July so whilst I was in town today I bought 5 bottles of my favourite hair conditioner and a bottle of sunflower oil. £6.75 spent.

LadyWithAPlan

@Soontobeoap I often find Poundland and Savers cheaper for cleaning products, eg my local Poundland sells one Litre bottles of white vinegar at much cheaper prices than the half size one from Sains etc. I am also trying some Aldi daily shower spray at present as well to see how that works.

otb666 said:Could not believe elderly relative had 16 creams eclairs in their fridge plus custard creams Victoria sponges and loads of biscults but as they are in their late 90s obviously works for them  

Wow thats a LOT of eclairs


£47.58/£200 spent on groceries so far
 Aldi shop Food Spent £27   some salmon, GF sausages , greens as some family here Saturday  plus some Aldi Cremant extra £8.99

thriftwizard

I've spent a fairly sensible £46.90 today, between the butchers & W8rose. There'll be a bit more tomorrow at the market; I need to keep that under £30 if at all possible.

Soontobeoap

I have a stinking cold so DH went shopping alone. 🤦. 

Not too bad considering! He went to Aldi and treated himself to some Andrex toilet rolls from the middle aisle. £8.99 for 12. Our double roll Sainsburys own lasted us no time at all last time round. ( Have they been hit by shrinkflation too?) Anyway I am going to use this opportunity to monitor how long they last us against our normal brand. We have lots of people to stay so this will take a mathematical genius but as DH is an accountant I will leave that to him.

Anyway £22.08 spent overall for our staples this week including the loo rolls.

Nelliegrace

Budget for June £150.

DH bought milk on Tuesday £3.10 spent.

5th June. First grocery shop of the month.
Aldi £17.89. I bought English apples, (Aldi Super 6 offer at 59p.) I had the very last foraged one, stored from September, for breakfast today. The pepper was 49p. I remembered the carrots after the photograph. 

DH will eat fruit and vegetables if I put them in front of him, half an apple, half a banana, half an orange cut into wedges, a few grapes, pomegranate seeds and defrosted blueberries, and little bit of tinned fruit with his muesli for breakfast. A few satsumas in a bowl by his chair. I do a medley of steamed veg with dinner, and a few salad things on the plate with a sandwich, a mini bowl of dried fruit and nuts. Left to himself he would live on toast and marmalade.

I have a small lamb joint for Sunday, cut from a half price leg of lamb, and some kippers to make kedgeree for Friday, and our 4 oz ration of cheese, all from the freezer, and there are always eggs, the old hens laid 14 last week.



Total £20.99

mandco

£50.40 to add before I forget. I know there are a couple of small spends to add to that but can’t find the receipts and the banking app is Down so can’t check yet.  

GSDMum

Had a quick pop into Morrisons, I had planned to go to Lidl but seeing as we were between two appointments, one at 10am for a blood test, and another at 11.45 for a GP appointment we decided to kill time between the two by shopping in Morrisons which was 'on the way'.

Today's shop came to £41.10, together with Wednesday's £38.10 shop it totals £79.20.

I'm not planning to shop again until the mid/end of next week. £270-£79.20 leaving £190.80 till the end of the month. 

LotsOfTea

I had a big shopping delivery on Wednesday which came to £105.77. I've already set up another delivery for the end of next week to make sure DH & DS will have plenty of easy meals for the following week when I'm away. Hopefully I can rein it back in a bit in the second half of the month.

£105.77/£300

PipneyJane

Auntycaz said:

@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.

Thanks for the heads-up @Auntycaz.  I will have a look tomorrow and stock up, if they have any.  How did you find out?  There’s nothing on the Nectar app or their SmartShop one.

Welcome @Yano.  Hope we can help you save money.

I went to L!dl on Tuesday, on my way home from work, to pick up my “Superspin Fruity Reward”.  This time, it was a bag of ripen-at-home avocados.  Made two mistakes:  a) I forgot the shopping list, and b) I forgot to take the GC purse with me.  Fortunately, I had enough notes in my purse.  D’oh!

£28.36 spent.  I purchased the following:  free £1.99 bag of avocados, Bratwurst 2x£2.54 (15% off), Butter 2x£1.99, chorizo 2x£1.64 (15% off), quiche £2.89, mixed salad seeds 98p, Salmon En Croute £4.99, prosciutto £1.89, plain yoghurt 55p, Emmental slices £2.99 and mixed sweet peppers £1.79. 

The above brings our total spend to £47.76/£165, leaving £117.24 for the rest of the month.

Soontobeoap said:

For anyone who is interested I received 12 jars of Sacla vegan sauce direct from SACLA today only paid £2.00 a jar ( £3.50 in shops when available) and date is July 2027. They also sent 2 free jars of vegan chilli pesto sauce for me to try. Even if it comes back into the shops I have scored a win. Love it when something like this happens.

On another note does anybody know where I can buy bulk cleaning products more cheaply than supermarkets.

@Soontobeoap I buy mine from WingYip, the Chinese cash-and-carry.  We go once a year.  This is what I purchased a year ago:  Desiccated medium coconut 2x1kg 2x£6.35, noodles 400g 4x£1.65, Marigold rubber gloves small 6 pack 2x£9.66, Singapore Noodle sauce 250g jars 3x£1.95, Shaushing wine 600ml £6.50, 3kg Sodium Bicarbonate £4.95, 5L bottle Cooks Washing Up Liquid £5.35.  (I decant the latter into a pump-action soap bottle, mixing it 50:50 with distilled vinegar.  5L lasts 2 years.)

HTH

- Pip