September 2025 Grocery Challenge

diminua

Hi Elsiepac

Could you put me down for £250 again please?

I've already spent £90.93 of that, but have a meal plan for the next few days and shouldn't need anything,

Made pasta with lemon butter sauce and fish this evening which went surprisingly well given I bodged the sauce together because I realised had no tinned tomatoes. Essentially a couple of tablespoons of butter, some olive oil, 2 tinned sardines, some left over marinated herring, a teaspoon of olive oil, the juice of half a lemon, some dried oregano and a clove of garlic (grated) just put together in a jug, melted at low heat in the microwave and stirred, then a couple of spoons of milk, a splash of olive brine and a flat teaspoon of cornflour added and stirred in and heated again on a high heat, taking out to stir regularly until it had thickened. 
I like quite a sharp sauce though, so other people's mileage on the lemon may vary.  

Nelliegrace

DH has shopped at Asda twice for milk and bought some fruit and broccoli and carrots. I estimate £12 spent. 
I managed a brief visit to Aldi, 3x100g weekly portions of cheese went in the freezer. £18.23 spent. 



We have had pork steaks, turkey mince, liver, and fish from the freezer. 
The hens are still giving us two eggs most days. 
My sister gave us gooseberry jam. 

Total £30.23

weenancyinAmerica

Thank you @elsiepac for keeping the Challenges going for so long. I love reading the recipes.
Also love seeing the Wonky fruits and vegetables in Nelliegrace's cart. I like the easy peelers too. 

My trouble is I end up having to feed two or more of my roommates on what I have available for food. At least I have a good amount to start with, but buying bits and pieces for other people makes my budgeting very difficult. Combined with not being able to stand up for more than 2 minutes at a time means making meals in interesting. I have a stool now to sit on in the kitchen but cooking is almost impossible so I eat a lot of salads I sit and cut up and sandwiches I can make sitting at the bread board (my only space that is low enough). Still trying to find out if I can get meals delivered by Meals on Wheels that delivers to seniors. Need my health insurance company's recommendation - and am having trouble getting into see a doctor. I wish we had something like Olio or C_J's Food Resource. I do end up with a lot of miscellaneous food - just not well-balanced meals. I need to do more meal planning. 

t14cy_t

budget still at £68/£200 as been very lucky with olio. unfortunately will have to start buying eggs soon as chooks are laying only one or two eggs a week, they are 10 years old now so to be expected. we have kept chooks and ducks for 20 years now, so when these have gone i will have a break from getting any more. 

K9sandFelines

First spend is £15.84. Giant box of noodles.These normally last about six months, maybe less as my DD2 is moving back home next month; so things will be used up quicker. I would have skipped the order til next month but I was too late.

£7.33 also for the second payment of the bulk purchases of spices I succumbed to, which I absolutely didn't need.

More Amazon bits are coming on Monday, but I don't need anything before then.

£23.17

Mrs_Cheshire

Have tallied up the spends since the beginning of the month and we're currently at £392.44/£700. The freezer is still pretty full as are the store cupboards. Hoping to get by with a £60 shop this coming week and another the week after. I'll make some cakes or cookies this weekend to keep the kids going. 

Changeyourlife25

£243.88/£600 

Big I-land shop and a couple corner shop bits 

Soontobeoap

Another £5.00 spent in Aldi on onions, milk and lemonade. Doing OK so far!

Frugalistamama

Hi can I join in it's been a while. I'm trying to spend ,£400 this month as I've been spending closer to ,£500 or £600. Got a fairly full freezer as I seem to have been stocking up lately. So far have spent £233/£400.  I've had free delivery for 3 months and really good money off my first 4 shops at ocado (£55) as a new customer. I've never shopped with them before but found if you are clever and shop the discounts, meal deals and flash sales it's actually fairly priced. And I'm amazed at the quality and freshness of their fruits and veg! They last so much longer than other supermarkets. I think I might have been converted! 

K9sandFelines

£2.70 spent from stores.