October 2025 Grocery Challenge

JingsMyBucket

Happy grey autumnal Saturday afternoon everyone. It’s quite cozy, actually. We have a few shopping trips to mention. 

£9.46 by Mr. Jings yesterday evening at M & S. He picked beef stir fry strips, YS fresh egg noodles, and a whole big melon. I was away for work and forgot to ask him to pull something out of the freezer for dinner until too late in the afternoon. He stopped by the store and then made a spicy Chinese noodle soup for dinner. 

We have some of the soup left. I pulled chicken legs from the freezer last night so I may cook one and then add it the soup to extend it. 

£19.21 by me today at a local farm shop I visited with a friend for lunch. 2 scotch pies, a family sized mince round, 6 eggs, and sliced ham from the counter. 

£298.54 / £325 spent. £26.46 remaining.  

Still need to buy soy sauce. I’ll stop by Lidl this week for it. That will also tip me over into the Lidl Plus £50 free vegetable bracket. I know someone else here snagged a 7.5kg bag of potatoes but that may not serve us well. What other options are there to maximize the benefit? 

Soontobeoap

£7.47 spent at Aldi this morning on bread ,rice, salad bits, cold beef and a jar of sweet and sour sauce.

leftatthetrafficlights

£20 on fruit and oat milk yesterday 

£44.13/£350

itsthelittlethings

Have added up all my food spends from my bank account and it’s come to pretty much £275. I think I may have spent about £15 in cash as well that I didn’t note down. Shouldn’t have to get anything else before payday as I stocked up this morning. Will keep a proper record next month. I know this is quite high as it’s just me. Also it was a short month as I’ve started a new job and payday has shifted to a bit earlier in the month.

ancientmum

Popping in to update my grocery spends from the last week.

Tuesday - general groceries and fruit, and my free cake from Lidl, £13

Thursday - eggs and some liver from the market £6.   (1/3 liver eaten, 2/3 in freezer)

Saturday - market greengrocer £4, Aldi £5, Sainsbury £21.  I bought extra provisions in Mr,S to get over the £20 spend to earn extra neck tar points, but will use them mainly when I have visitors in a couple of weeks.   Reduced at the till to £19 as I had a voucher for the newspaper.

All the prices are rounded up to the nearest pound as my bank transfers odd pennies into a savings account.

Glad I went to the lottie yesterday as weather has been awful here today, almost continuous rain and wind.  I've been catching up on odd jobs around the flat and indulging in some wildlife tv programmes.  

PipneyJane

We hit the YS jackpot at Sainsbugs yesterday.  £20.86 spent on YS beef skirt 2x£3.54, YS chicken livers 2x£1.39, YS duck liver £1.19, YS Gunpowder schnitzel 2x£1.99, Potato dauphinois £2.50, 1L skimmed milk 93p, GU double chocolate brownies £2.50.  Got there about 5pm and would easily have purchased more, if I’d had the freezer space.  (Just managed to shoehorn everything in, but had to remove the skirt from its packaging.)

Also visited L!dl, spending £7.94 on Gold instant coffee £2.65 and Gold ground coffee £5.29.  Hopefully, I won’t need to go anywhere near a shop until next weekend now.  20p in change went to the moneyboxes.

The above brings our total spend to £169.80/£211 leaving £41.20 for the rest of the month.

- Pip

TravelCrystal

@JingsMyBucket, I have now had 3 of the 7.5kg bags of potatoes from Lidl. When you reach the £50 and the app says you have the free veg offer if you activate it, it will mention all items included. Obviously depends what works for you. I’m hoping for some free shampoo before the month end when I reach the £100 spend. No shopping until later this coming week 

P.S, 2 of the bags not opened yet🤭
T.C

Nelliegrace

I went to Sainsbury’s yesterday for the milk and a few things. 

Milk 2 x 4 pints, cooking bacon £1 for 500g, turkey mince £3.50* for 500g, (to freeze in 4 portions,) parsnips* 65p, red cabbage 75p, loose carrots 33p, grapes* £1.60, satsumas 99p, brown rice £1.39p. 
* price reduced with loyalty card. I have just noticed that the cabbage was put through as a Savoy, 4p cheaper! 

I collected some free cardboard boxes, strong, large and shallow, just right for storing the rest of the foraged apples. 

£12.71 spent. 

I made an apple and sultana bara brith, a large, wholemeal apple crumble, and a dozen rock cakes when the oven was on for the Sunday roast. 

Total Spend, £103.26 out of £155.

SausageDogSandwich

Haven’t been keeping up with posting but have been keeping track. Just had sains delivery which was £80 which I’m hoping will last us for the week and we don’t have to visit any shops.
277.81/400 spent.

Pennypincin

I've £10.27 left for the past week food budget.
I've transferred it to the bulk fund and am starting again with £40 for this week