August 2025 Grocery Challenge

weenancyinAmerica

@PipneyJane - And he is not your deceased late ex? You have a lot of restraint there.

t14cy_t

spent my last £5 today on the pooch so declare £102/£100 budget. phew!! glad that months over. 

remmie

Another spend in Al*I of £31.85 brings my total this month to £302.09, very happy with that, best result for a few months. No more needed this month, see you in September.

themsthebreaks

Need to add my receipts to my budget, as I haven’t posted for a while.

I have two Local pantry visits @ £10, and

two Iceland visits @ £131.97

Then, toilet roll and wipes @ £7.80

This gives me a spend of

£299.36/£350

I need to go to H&B today, to pick up some coconut oil, and a few other things, so hopefully, it won’t come to more than £50 😊

Mrs_Cheshire

Trip to the community grocery for me today - got the following for £7.50
2 boxes of branded cereals
2 boxes of branded oat bars
4 pint milk
2 soreen packs (1 loaf and 1 bars)
6 eggs
bag of chips
bag of new potatoes 

Needed bread but they didn't have any so stopped at Asd@ for a loaf, picked up cheese and bottle of fizzy pop too. Spent £4.37

Hubby went to Iceland as he wanted coffee sachets and spent £11.35 - I know he bought pringles as well but not sure what else!!

Total for August £669.44/£600

Need to tighten the purse strings as that's a lot of money on food/drink

carboot_karaoke

I'm declaring for August. 

Grocery Budget £294.38 / £380
Entertaining £83.83 / £70
Total £ 378.21 /£450
 
I went shopping today but everything is for September so I'll add it onto the new thread.

Does anyone know if it's live yet? I could have missed it.  

Nelliegrace

August Grocery Challenge for Two, £5 a day, £155.

Shopped at Aldi on the way home from the local hospital. They had the kilo packs of coffee beans still at £8.99.  
£22.38 spent.



We have a glut of eggs to use. DH made a wholemeal loaf. 
We have been given some damsons and another marrow, and have been picking apples and blackberries.
There is still a lot of meat, fish, cheese and butter in the freezer. 

Total spend for August, £120.07

PipneyJane

weenancyinAmerica said:

@PipneyJane - And he is not your deceased late ex? You have a lot of restraint there.

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No, but he is the cause of my extremely tight February when, after paying all the household bills out of my salary, I was left with £20 to feed us for the month. I was broke before the month started and he didn’t contribute a penny.  Luckily work provided lunch, because I wouldn’t have been able to afford to buy it/make it and take it in.  (Theme of the entire relationship, really.  I paid for absolutely everything.  He spent his salary on eating out, books and bar bills.  Took me a couple of years to realise what was going on.)

- Pip

themsthebreaks

My last spend for the month was at H&B yesterday. 

It came to: £23.56 

This gives me a spend of

£322.92/£350

I am very pleased with this, and look forward to joining the September grocery challenge.

GSDMum

GSDMum said:

Well I've busted my budget! Was trying to go extra tight this month (£175) as I'm aiming to spend £350 month on average over 2025. I just couldn't do it. 
 

Well I am truly busted this month. At least I'll be starting September with a full fridge, freezer, and pantry. I'll not be buying household, dog food and personal items in September so I'm hoping for a good month. 

Total cost for August is £448.18, apart from a treat of a couple bottles of wine, I don't believe I've been extravagant in the least.

Average spend per month so far for 2025 £392.15.