August 2025 Grocery Challenge

Pennypincin

Sorry to hear jingsmybucket, sending hugs and hope things improve swiftly.

Finstickle

I've done the Asda order early this week as DD and I are off to a festival for the long weekend.  A very snack heavy order and alcohol, feels like a lot of money for not very much food but it will be cheaper overall.

£69 using reloadable voucher

I'm also feeling very far through my budget for this point in the month, however we are away for the last 10 days of the month as well so still think I'll make it.

Total £301.53/£400

JingsMyBucket

Thank you @Pennypincin, that’s genuinely appreciated x

GSDMum

Love reading everyone's posts, thank you everyone for sharing.

It's a battle for sure keeping to budget. I'm aiming to average £350 a month for the whole of 2025, and I'm quite close to grasping it. My actual spend on groceries so far is £353.28 a month, so I'm nearly there. We're mostly living off the freezer for dinners, with the occasional fresh meal thrown in, usually at the request of himself. At this present time I've just got £33.30 left to spend out of £175 budget, 

Today hubby suggested he'd like fresh sardines with a French stick for dinner. As I was going to the dentist in a town that's not too familiar, I thought I'd pop into Sainsburys there, only to find that the store was too small to have fishmongers's stall. So on the way home I called into Morrisons. This mornings sardines delivery of 4kg was all bought by a pike fisherman for bait. The fish monger couldn't tell me when more sardines will be in as he doesn't know what the supplier will deliver. Alternatively we enjoyed slices of gammon bought from Morrison's deli. 

From Sainsburys I bought large pot of Greek yoghurt, fresh peaches, huge South African oranges, red onions = £7.70.

From Morrisons, sparling water, baguettes, dog treats, large baps, tonic water, Oykos raspberry Greek yoghurts, and Oykos blueberry Greek yoghurts. 5x cartons of milk = £31.12.

Hopefully I can stretch 7 days before I need to shop again. Following this shop I hope to stretch until a booked Tesco delivery on the 29th, this delivery will be written into September's budget. 

Mrs_Cheshire

Small spends over the weekend and yesterday doing a small top up. Now up to £301.40/£550 
Meal plan is done for the rest of the week and then we're heading to my parents for a few days. Going to do a online home delivery for the day we come back. 

Soontobeoap

Another quick shop in Sainsbury's today. Needed flora ( doesn't contain dairy) , plant based cheesy dippers, bacon and gf bread . £13.00 altogether. GC requested pasta salad.for their lunch today which was an easy fix as everything was in the house already. It wasn't on the meal plan but made a reasonably.cheap meal and has stretched the food a bit further. Yesterday I had bought pizza bases and they enjoyed showing me how to top their own pizzas. I have never done that before and they were delicious
 I have a couple of bases left that I will put into the freezer for meals when I am on my own. I had bought loyd Grossman pizza.sauce.on offer last month  in Sainsbury's and definitely over bought. They were much tastier and cheaper.than buying a decent pizza and were a great activity for the kids as well. 

weenancyinAmerica

@Jingsmybucket - Sending hugs from across the Americas. We are all worried too. What next?

Quantaqa

@JingsMyBucket sorry to hear.  Sending hugs and fingers crossed things get better soon xx

Pennypincin

£9.23 spent in Sainsbury's and Tesco on free range eggs, cheese, cucumber, budget apples, budget fat free yoghurt, cheap tomatoes, easy peelers, lettuce, baking potatoes, a couple of loose carrots, and some loose bananas.
I'm hoping to not need to do more food shopping until Thursday or Friday.

TravelCrystal

Sending 🤗 @JingsMyBucket, we live in worrying times all around. Hope the world sorts itself out soon 

My first shopping expedition to Lidl since the lurg

For some reason the app isn’t working properly so I was unable to get my free cake, no bad thing I guess

Had to stock up on laundry liquid, tomato sauce and ice cream cones 🤣
Added fresh fruit and veg, snaffled a £1.50 box which contained peaces, grapes, onions, one pear, tomatoes, oranges and swedes. And one lonely basil plant 🪴 now reviving.
Had to cook the pear and peaches straight away. They can go in the freezer for a pudding in the future.

Also had reduced price muffins, milk, frozen peas, baked beans, marmalade and yogurts 


Total spend today £25.81

Hoping to have prawn pizza for tea, pizza dough made earlier out of the freezer, raw prawns from farm foods, mozzarella ball which is past the date but hopefully still alive and tomatoes from the garden will be added together with a few leaves of the reviving basil.
DH about to dig up some of our potatoes to go with it. Oh and salad.

Total spend this month £144.46/£200

Hope everyone’s month is going well 
T.C