September 2025 Grocery Challenge

JingsMyBucket

Bonjour mes amies d’internet! We are on the train to our second destination in France to hang out with another set of friends. 

So far, we’ve spent €76.82 on various incarnations of groceries: multiple boulangerie and patisserie visits, salad, cold chicken, French chipolatas we cooked in the apartment, ham, cheeses!!, big bottles of water, fruit, and a small bottle of olive oil which will travel with us on this trip to the next places. 

We’re staying with friends for the next few days so we’ll likely buy some groceries to contribute to their household. At some point I’m going to buy some jams to take home with me but I may keep that in a separate budget. Alright, back to staring out the train window at the Alps!  

carboot_karaoke

Sounds fabulous @JingsMyBucket 🥰 enjoy x 

Soontobeoap

Today has been manic but I still managed to cook up the 11/2 kg of mince that I bought last week. We had cottage pie tonight and I have put 2 more in the freezer along with 3 lasagnas and a pot of savoury mince all to serve 2 people.the weekend was not good for meal planning. I was out on Friday for a meal so DH did himself sandwiches and on Thursday and Saturday we had beans on toast for varying reasons. Very cheap meals but I need to kick my a** back into gear and sort out the meal plan for this week. I guess sometimes life just gets in the way.

TheCheerleader

@Soontobeoap what a great use of mince to get so many batch cooked meals, your future self will thank you!🤩 
Another couple of small spends on lambs liver, whole meal bread and reduced rolls.
£181.03/ £200
£8.97 left, I will need milk, tissue and eggs before the weekend. Flying by the seat of my pants! 🤣

mandco

Aldi £40.16, sains £40 & pet shop £66.22 = £725.11/£800 which leaves me approx £75 till the end of the month 

carboot_karaoke

Evening All,

Another 2 spends to declare £10.23 in Asda for salad, sugar, milk also brought 2 x Gym Kitchen meals and some chicken breast all of which were reduced. 

Then today l went to Tesco's l brought the things needed to complete Septembers food plan, and to save myself another trip l brought chicken thighs and YS mince beef for the beginning of October. I'll carry the £9.20 over to next month . 

New Totals 

Grocery Budget £290.70 / £300 -   £9.30 remaining 
Bulk fund £29.49 / £50
Grocery Challenge £320.19 / £350 

I know I'll need cheese and maybe fruit or veg but still hoping to stay with budget. 

Soontobeoap

Hi all. Another £15. 15 spent in Aldi. Lots of little bits like noodles bacon eggs etc which will make meals stretch to the end of the month. 

I did eke out the bacon a little too thin when I put together a pasta dish tonight with the teaming pasta sauce from the lasagnas when I did the batch cook a couple of days ago.

Just in case no one has noticed @elsiepac has started the October thread. Sorry I don't know how to add link here.

Suffolk_lass

October thread is here at this link

TheCheerleader

Thanks for the info and link to next month’s challenge @Soontobeoap and @Suffolk_lass, will head over and join 👍
Another small spend to report, £4.69 in Co for milk, ham & eggs.
We will probably go over with only £4.25 remaining until 31st, but this thread is great at still keeping myself accountable.
 

TravelCrystal

Back from the holiday now, spending on meals out and about not too bad, a couple of reasonably priced meals in ‘spoons and a couple of other restaurants. All National Trusted out now, almost October. Will be visiting Lidl’s tomorrow on the way to collecting the cat 
The weather has been kind

Money spent on holiday £189.27
Total so far this month £276.01/£350