October 2025 Grocery Challenge

carboot_karaoke

Afternoon Everyone,

70 new messages on this thread since my last post😱, i'm so sorry l don't have time to read them all.

I hope that your Grocery Challenges are all going to plan.

Despite my lack of online presence l have kept all my receipts and just tallied them up. At the halfway point in the month, things seem on track. l have all the fundamentals for our main meals up to the end of next week.

New totals 

Grocery Budget £211.45 / £400
Bulk Fund £40.13 / £50
Grocery Challenge £251.58 / £450

  

moginstein

Hi all,
Sorry if I've missed it, but I haven't heard anyone mention the Nectar challenge. It's in the app, and on til 11 November.  It varies person to person, but I think that are all bonus points when you collect nectar points, eg 100 bonus points when you collect 100 points. It's called "Count up to Christmas". I think you need to activate it though.
There is also a spin it win it thing that is daily for a week. No purchase required for that. (So far I got a didn't win and a 3x points at Esso). 
HTH

Soontobeoap

£56.00 spent in Sainsburys yesterday. £36.00 on half price lamb. This will be used for 3 roasts which will then form the basis of lots more meals in the winter months. Would have bought more but need to keep room in freezer for gammon and beef when it is reduced to half price before Christmas. Usually November.

Also bought 2 tubs of flora proactive buttery and a few other branded items that we prefer.


I hadn't intended spending so much but the lamb will save us so much money later on.

leftatthetrafficlights

£6 spent today on oat milk and apple juice for my grandbaby 

£24.13/£350

PipneyJane

Good afternoon All

otb666 said:

sorry been missing in action for 6 weeks I have been tracking my food spend and i am still managing on £600 pm. I have been on the bereavement forum and the lovely peeps there have been helping me sort out the aftermath which i am now at the end of apart from the in laws house so feel i can rejoin again here now as my time is my own again.

My condolences, @otb666 and big hugs.  Go easy on yourself.

I have multiple spends to declare from this week.  I’ll swear that we didn’t visit the shops every day, but it does look like that:-

• Sunday - £6.96 in Sainsbugs, spent on cookies for the club £1.87, Honey 79p, honey roast ham £2.95, rocket salad £1.35.
• Monday - DH went to L!dl on his way home from work.  £18.63 spent on YS salmon fish cakes £1.24, free sweet potatoes (£1.19 saved), Free shower gel (89p saved), 1L lactose free milk 3x84p, honey 2x79p, cooking whisky £13.29 (only ever used for hot toddies).
• Tuesday - £2.49 spent by me in L!dl on some more salmon fish cakes because I know that he wouldn’t be satisfied only eating one for supper.
• Tuesday - £3.95 in MrT’s on a packet of 12 beef meatballs to cook with some of the vat of tomato sauce I’ve been making.
• Wednesday - £1.75 spent by DH in Sainsbugs on bananas and mushrooms. (He’d bought a hand of bananas and a loose mushroom to max out the Nectar points offers, got back to the car and realised that he hadn’t scanned his Nectar card, so put the shopping in the boot and went and purchased another hand of bananas plus another mushroom!)
• Today - £15.22 spent by me in Sainsbugs.  I took advantage of some Nectar prices to stock up on Yeo Valley Yoghurts (4x£1.85), a pack of 9 rolls of recycled toilet paper (£2.87), and spring onions (50p), all of which also had earn-extra-points vouchers expiring today.  While there, I also purchased some YS mushrooms (63p), 0.5kg loose carrots (36p) and 150g smoked salmon (£2.49). 
• There was also £2.63 of assorted coinage shrapnel that’s made its way into the various money boxes.

The above brings our total spend to £140.80/£211 leaving £70.20 for the rest of the month.

I’m off to shoehorn the rest of the vat of tomato sauce into the freezer. There’ll be another one to follow, next week, when the remaining tomatoes have ripened (currently in a bowl with the bananas).  Wish me luck!

- Pip

itsthelittlethings

£9 in Aldi, some posh pizza, Greek yoghurt, coleslaw and granola.

Soontobeoap

Kicking myself that I didn't get a half price ( with nectar) pork joint as well. I could have cut it up and made 2 gammon steaks and 2 small joints for two for about £8.00. if I go near Sainsburys on way back from tip this week I will pop in and get one 

TheBees

Checking in this week with a running total of £221.20. Sticking to the meal plan and trying to avoid shopping for groceries until I really need things rather than automatically doing a weekly big shop. Hoping I can last until Wednesday when I can go to Lidl.

itsthelittlethings

Might spend a while today adding up this month’s spends so I know what I am working with for next month. Then I’ll keep a proper record on next month’s thread.

Finstickle

£3 in the co-op on Lucozade yesterday and a refund on Asda of £2.74.
Small change

Currently: £251.42/£400