September 2025 Grocery Challenge

Finstickle

A few updates here.
My last Asda order had some unavailable and hand back items so it dropped by £11.68.  I did however then need to go to Tesco and get both those items and the ones I had forgotten for £13.78, so with the help of clubcard I got a lot more for an additional £2.10.
I've a charge for £7.75 at the co-op, a much needed coffee run topped up with a couple of yellow sticker mousakkas and a Lucozade.

DD has been asking for a Lidl trip so decided to do that today for the first time in forever.  Going through a divorce and moving house has meant that food shop dropped to the bottom of the list, but I quite enjoyed wandering around an actual shop again.  And I only spent £64.07 and that included £5.99 on a bunch of flowers for myself, so very happy with that.  

Current total £273.97/£320

£46.03 to last me until next Friday.  If I delay the weekly shop until then and just top up with what I specifically need that should be doable :-)

weenancyinAmerica

@FrugalJane - Don't miss the hints by Pipney Jane listed on page 1 of the challenge. It really has some wonderful hints for you.

t14cy_t

£101/£200 in budget as did the main shop yesterday. happy with that so far....

Nelliegrace

I lent our neighbour the telescopic apple picker and was given two bags of lovely Conference pears.
I have picked six mushroom trays of large Howgate Wonder cooking apples from the garden. I love this time of year.

C_J

A couple of spends to report - £1 on both 10th and 17th September for the Community Fridge visits (sorry, I haven’t listed it all, but there was lots!) and £5.74 on teabags, cream and some naughty licquorice allsorts as a treat 😊

That brings my September total to £8.74/£150 but I had already stocked up on pet food for the hungry hound last month and have enough to last until 28th. I will need some butter and some more of my favourite orange and mango squash soon (they had neither in the small Sainsbobs I visited today, and there was no way I was going to pay over eight quid (!) for a large tub of Lurpak, which is all they had!).  I thought I was going to have to buy milk but luckily they had four pint bottles of semi skimmed filtered milk at the Community Fridge yesterday with five days still on the sell by date, so I grabbed one. 🤣

£8.74/£150

thriftwizard

I'm thinking I may have to up my target a tad; no sooner do we move one twin out than the other bounces back for a while! Poor DD1 should have been in Thailand with her fiancé but health concerns have intervened; she recently suffered a spider bite (we are all in False Widow territory) which became badly infected. She needed several weeks-worth of strong antibiotics to get over that, then developed c. diff as a result of those antibiotics, which she then needed more antibiotics to treat. So a trip to Seriously Foreign Parts was definitely not the soundest move just now, although it's a huge shame to miss a big adventure. As they were going out for a wedding which her fiancé is assisting with, he still had to go, so she's here for the duration. It's lovely to have her here but my budgetary plans have gone awry - again! I'll do some calculations, but I think we'll have to add another £50, although she's a lot less fussy than her twin brother!

LotsOfTea

I've totted up my various spends for the last few weeks and I'm up to exactly £171.00 spent so far. That leaves me £29.00 for the rest of the month if I'm to hit my target. That's going to be a challenge but since the fridge, freezer and cupboards are all full I should be able to do it. I just need to be a bit more creative. 

£171/£200

Soontobeoap

Aldi didn't have non bio washing powder so I had to buy Sainsbury's own. ( More expensive!) Also needed half spoon sugar and puff pastry. With nectar we got 50p off of half spoon and puff pastry so bought more than we would normally. £18.25 spent. It's extremely tight again this month but I have got some bits in for next month too and have quite a few meals made up in the freezer. 

thriftwizard

This weekend's spend, which is the basis of the week's food for 4 adults, has been £93.50; some rounding-up there but I'm just rushing to record it before I lose the plot again. £21 at the supermarket, £26 at the butchers, £8.50 at the fishmongers & £38 at the market on eggs (the Girls are now moulting) fresh fruit & veg. There shouldn't be much else needed except sliced bread & yogurt before next weekend. We are still getting plenty of tomatoes from the allotment, both in the greenhouse & some from outdoors too, plus kale, chard and other leaves. The hazelnuts are falling thick & fast, and there are cherry plums & apples too. I'm hoping to still find some blackberries out & about, but I did find half a bag of last year's in the freezer so it's not disastrous if I've missed the boat there.

Changeyourlife25

£298.18

This month’s going really well, lots of the freezer being ate  
another 40ish this week, Iceland and corner shops