September 2025 Grocery Challenge

t14cy_t

 budget now £168/£200, as did an iceland and morisons shop. olio is slowly picking up again, phew!!

thriftwizard

I've done the bulk of the grocery shopping for this weekend & next week, at the butcher & the supermarket, which leaves me on £474.01, so £25.99 left for the market tomorrow and we don't actually need very much! There's a pack of £5-pie-fish in the freezer for tomorrow, I'm defrosting a turkey drumstick for the slow-cooker on Saturday, there's a pork joint for Sunday & those last two will provide plenty of leftovers in one guise or another for the rest of the week. If there are any unexpected arrivals, there's plenty of eggs, rice, pasta & spices to whip something up, plus an apparently-endless supply of leaves (kale, tree cabbage & chard) tomatoes, apples & plums from the allotment & garden. So just some fresh fruit & veg to pick up at the market & I may just stay inside my target figure for once!

LotsOfTea

I had to pop to the supermarket today to get bananas, cucumber, cheese for sandwiches, grated mozzarella for pizza for tomorrow's tea and chocolate and rice crispy cereal to make some lunchbox treats for next week. I spent 12.75 in total.

£190.14/£200

Nelliegrace

September Grocery Budget for Two, £150.

We had a very good lunch, cooked and served by the students at the local college, (paid for from our Premium Bond win).
I have ordered two of their Christmas cakes, one each for DD and us. 

Parked on Sainsb’s, so bought the milk and budget muesli there, to get the parking fee returned. 
Got a kilo of  Scottish porridge oats with wheat and oat bran on offer at 33p
£7.63 spent.

We were given a jar of local honey and some homegrown tomatoes, and a courgette, and gave away some eggs. 

Total spend £84.66.

Apples. 6 mushroom trays of Howgate Wonder cooking apples and a bucket of Sunset eaters from the garden.

We have just foraged these four bags, 71 pounds of apples, from the lane by the reservoir. There are plenty left. There is a small russet type apple, some good cookers and the others have a good flavour and keep well in the cold garage. We were eating stored apples until May this year. 

I miss the allotment where we grew quince, medlars, pears, damsons, and had planted a mulberry. We grew rhubarb and lots of berries. 

TravelCrystal

Love those apples @Nelliegrace

Frugalistamama

Another Lidl top up. Picked up some of the weekly offers and my free snacks voucher which was a massive multi pack of crisps and a few bits I needed for school lunches as I'd totally run out.  Spent £31.60 saved £4.00 on the freezer.

So I have the weekend left then it's the end of my month! Yay. 

£361.60/£400
Voucher savings £4/£13.60
Unnecessary spend  £1.35

Nelliegrace

September Grocery Budget for Two, £150.

Grocery shop at Aldi. Oranges and cabbage were on offer. They had wholemeal bread flour for a change £1.09. We are well stocked for coffee beans, we have a pot of filter coffee after breakfast. Fewer eggs from the hens now the days are getting shorter. 
£30.36 spent.

Total Spend £115.02

thriftwizard

Phew! I am now declaring for September at £499.21/£500 - that was close! But I did it, despite unexpectedly having DD1 back with us; she's now gone off to meet her fiancé and return to their new abode. It only got that close because I picked up a couple of "bargains" at the market; e.g. a huge box of "elderly" potatoes for £1, some of which went into tonight's dinner - slow-roasted turkey drumstick in a mushroom gravy, mashed potatoes with the end of a jar of truffle & artichoke pesto mixed in (yummy!) and runner beans & carrots. The pesto had already contributed to 4 or 5 meals, and had been bought on special offer, and the mushrooms were the tail-end of last week's batch. We didn't really need any spuds, we did have some, but they were all "new" or new-ish, and just cook differently; they don't make great mash or roasties. They will all get used up one way or another. Sometimes you have to act when you see these opportunities! I am now re-jigging the week's menu plan to fit lots of spuds in...

Frugalistamama

I'm at the end of my month and I'm so please I've come under budget for the first time ever I think. Very pleased with myself! See you on the October thread


£361.60/£400
Voucher savings £4/£13.60
Unnecessary spend  £1.35

Changeyourlife25

£438.03

Pleased with how this month has gone! M&S shop plus corner shop runs