September 2025 Grocery Challenge

Nelliegrace

September Grocery Budget for Two, £150

12/9 I shopped at Aldi on Friday because I wanted to cook for a day out to use our shareholders’ tickets on the Severn Valley Railway on Saturday.
I got a medium chicken and some good pork sausages 30% off. The kilo of coffee beans were reduced to £7.99.
The tinned sardines had gone down in price to 45p, the litre of yoghurt up to £1.75. I twisted the jumbo sausages to make smaller ones and froze them in portions. Frozen vegetables are good value, £1.19 a kilo.
£26.14 spent


16/9 DH spent £6.39 on milk, grapes, clementines, and more bananas because they were on offer.

Total spent, £62.76.

Frugalistamama

Did a small top up at Lidl and spent 14.99.  got my free veg which was a kg of tomatoes and discounts on cereal and dishwasher salt/rinse aid all things I need so saved £3.60 in vouchers.

Got eggs, bread, butter, oats, grapes, passata. I shouldn't have got a six pack of crisp...

233/243
Voucher savings £3.60
Unnecessary spend  £1.35

Frugalistamama

Urgh £23.45 accidentally spent on a veg box subscription I forgot to cancel. 

£256.45/£400

Cancelling now!!

thriftwizard

I'm confessing to a complete & utter bodge of my grocery spend over this last weekend; given family staying, assorted celebration meals (including those who suddenly discovered they were free at the last minute!) and moving DS3 back to his university town yesterday & today, I'm writing quite a lot off as "family contingency" and have added roughly what I think I spent relating to the four of us who live - or were living - here! Which came to £85.21 & takes me up to £311.65 and only leaves £138.35 for the rest of the month, just under £70 per week. That will be tight! But hopefully do-able, although I'll be fairly happy if I can get close.

We will have another invasion in the middle of next month too... however it's wonderful that they want to come & see us, so I'm not complaining.

t14cy_t

budget still at £68/£200. olio has been very good tio us lately!!

K9sandFelines

Lost a post so going to keep it brief

£18.71 Amaz@n
£8.97 in the international shop
£7.90 Aldi
£9.56 at Tesc@

£45.14 to add to £20 plus spent  already .... Yikes !!!

FrugalJane

Hi everyone. I used to do this challenge back in the day (around 2012!) but stopped as I got married, then thank goodness divorced… turns out he was not nice as soon as we were married! Anyway, all that means that I’m back to grabbing and holding on to every penny I can. My old name here was PennyGrabber. 

I’m going to watch what I spend this month, and read all posts, then join in officially for October once my head is back in the game. Have less than I did back then, and my children are adults now so it’ll be fun!
Take care all x 

Soontobeoap

Welcome back @ frugalJane. We will look forward to your journey and hopefully you can share some tips. It is getting much harder with food costs rising daily so we need all of the help we can get. 🙂

K9sandFelines

FrugalJane said:

Hi everyone. I used to do this challenge back in the day (around 2012!) but stopped as I got married, then thank goodness divorced… turns out he was not nice as soon as we were married! Anyway, all that means that I’m back to grabbing and holding on to every penny I can. My old name here was PennyGrabber. 

I’m going to watch what I spend this month, and read all posts, then join in officially for October once my head is back in the game. Have less than I did back then, and my children are adults now so it’ll be fun!
Take care all x 

Welcome back. I've been here a long time too, since before the revamp of the site and then the app.
I also joined MSE when my children were small and now they are too both adults.

Good luck with your first month on the GC.

TravelCrystal

Welcome @FrugalJane nice to have another one on board. Such helpful hints and tips and I think, sense of community.
Good luck

T.C