June 2025 Grocery Challenge

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

Auntycaz

@PipneyJane I saw it on the nectar prices on the sainsburys online page on Tuesday afternoon but it had disappeared when I looked the following day. I wondered if I'd made a mistake or if they've sold out online but it definitely said avalable until the 24th June.
But, If you go to trolley.co.uk and click the link through to Sainsburys it comes up as a nectar price till the 24th June, but if you go straight to Sainsburys website it doesn't come up. I thought I was imagining things when I couldn't find it.
So I wouldn't make a special journey for them but if you're going anyway keep a lookout for them.

Naturelover22

Top up shop at our zero waste shop yesterday. 
Parked in a 1 hour free parking space.
I don't aim for this be the cheapest I can get, the benefit is I like the products as I have allergies and being able to reuse bottles and not have more plastic waste come into the house.

£19.80
Forgot to get the itemised receipt (after I told OH off earlier in the week!)

1 kg self raising flour

1l laundry liquid

1.1 l toilet cleaner

200g citric acid

500g pearl barley
Free cotton buds for the shop's 5th birthday.


Will be doing a food shop later today too.

PipneyJane

Auntycaz said:

@PipneyJane I saw it on the nectar prices on the sainsburys online page on Tuesday afternoon but it had disappeared when I looked the following day. I wondered if I'd made a mistake or if they've sold out online but it definitely said avalable until the 24th June.
But, If you go to trolley.co.uk and click the link through to Sainsburys it comes up as a nectar price till the 24th June, but if you go straight to Sainsburys website it doesn't come up. I thought I was imagining things when I couldn't find it.
So I wouldn't make a special journey for them but if you're going anyway keep a lookout for them.

I’ll have a look tomorrow @Auntycaz, when we go to Sainsbug’s to buy the paper.  Thanks for checking.

(NB:  Sainsbug’s will give you Nectar points when you pay with a voucher, so long as it isn’t one of theirs.  We subscribe to our  Sunday paper paying a discounted price, so effectively get a couple Nectar points free every week.)

I have one shop to declare from today.  Had to go to a shop at Westfield to exchange a purchase, so popped into the W8rose there to buy my annual supply of W8rose’s own-brand wool wash (£3.75 a bottle).  Spent £10.75 on the wool wash and 2 packets of marinated anchovies (£3.50 each).

This brings our GC total to £58.51/£165, leaving £106.49 for the rest of the month.

- Pip

Pennypincin

Apologies for being awol again.
I've managed to get away with not shopping this week until yesterday.
I took the shopping trolley today and yesterday to do a bulk stock up after having a clear out and running the cupboards down.
I used up what I'd put aside for the bulk fund as well as this week's food shop money.
The total spent in Lidl was £109.63.
Mainly on lots of tins of pulses, dried pasta, rice dried cooking ingredients and cartons of milk.
It also includes bits and bobs for the weekend, bits for lunch where I volunteer, cleaning products, toilet rolls, black bags and the various sizes white bin liners I use.
I'm still somehow surprised at how much everything cost despite noticing the price of stuff, sorry if it sounds daft.
Edit to add I have £2.61 left out of both the food budget and bulk fund.

JingsMyBucket

Afternoon everyone. I just returned from a quick shopping trip on the high street. I didn’t get too wet while out and I hope everyone is staying dry as well. 

£10.27 at a Polish shop for sausages and sauerkraut. 

£4.20 at Iceland for 15 eggs, crackers, and digestives. 

£36.95 at M & S for clementines (£2.10), bananas (£1.60), 2 containers of strawberries (£2.10 each), YS deluxe hummus (£2.00), 2 packs of YS ham (£2.75 each), a big block of cheddar (£4.00), English mustard (£1.00), Greek yoghurt (£2.00), 2 YS cups of cherry yoghurt (75p each), a tray of French cheeses (£10.75), and a French bread boule (£2.30). The French cheeses, bread, and ham will be the bulk of our dinner tonight along with salads. 

£122.07 / £325 spent. £202.93 total remaining.  

That’s it for the next week or so. We’re heading off to Edinburgh on Tuesday. There are a couple items I’ll buy there which will total about £10 but the rest of our food will come from a different budget. I’ve been steadily adding items to our Tesco order for June 14th but I’ll review it to see what I can eliminate. Have a good Saturday, all. 

Blackcats

£300 for June please @elsiepac

t14cy_t

budget is now £59/£100 for this month. hoping to score with olio today!!

carboot_karaoke

Morning all,

l have another two spends to declare.

l brought lots of veg, squash, milk, bread, avocado, pizza and eggs - which was the main reason for the trip.

Total spent £22.54. New total £180.75 / £446.

I need to try and stay out of the shops this week.