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October 2025 Grocery Challenge
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Another BIG thank you @elsiepac. You have helped so many people and we have all saved sooo much money. Wouldn't it be fascinating if we knew just how much money has stayed in our purses rather than in the coffers of retailers.
talking of which I'm very happy to have an underspend of £11.92 for October. I'm scooping up underspends and extra earnings from surveys, £co or sales etc into an account which I hope will be enough to pay our buildings insurance next May.
£11.92 underspend 🥳
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Popping in for a quick update. So far this month I've spent £133, this includes £36 bulk buy at the butcher, saving about £8 on what it would cost to buy the portions of meat separately.My month ends on 7th November so there will be a bit more shopping to add next week.Grocery challenge 2025: £1428/1500 annual budget3
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I'm £1 over this week.
I'm still trying to break the habit of picking up odds and sods rather than planning for the week or shopping more sensibly.
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Evening all. Over the past week I’ve spent about £60 in various places: Savers, Lidl, M & S, and Iceland. I’m declaring for October at £447.09 / £325 spent. £122.09 overspent.
Jings! That was a lot of stocking up this month. Let me go tuck my tail between my legs and plan better for November.
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Another October budget spend today - £8.52 on oranges, mint sauce, bananas, apples, rocket, black grapes and vegan salad cream.
£328.52/£350
I still need to buy avocado and cucumber for an asian night later this week (or next weekend) but won't buy those until later in the week. Hopefully, I'll come in just under budget as my new one doesn't start until Friday 7th November'Happiness is not a destination but the journey you walk every day'
Jan GC: £0/£100
DNF: £0/£6700
Garden sections: 0/21
DNF: 3/45
'It's the small compromises you keep making over time that start to add up and get you to a place you don't want to be'2 -
Just quickly declaring, £352.89\400 spent.
The remainder has already been spent on stuff for the kids, so nothing to carry over
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£29.48 to add at Aldi, HB and loo rolls off DD1
Edited to add £4.85 on meat free oxos and agave from Am@zon
GC 2025 so far £1461.52/£1710 Dec 13th - Jan 12 = £55.52/180 (includes food, toiletries and cleaning from 13th to 12th of each month.Two person vegan household, with occasional visitors)Join me on the meal plan thread : https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6356309/could-we-start-a-meal-plan-thread-again-so-its-not-lost-in-the-gc/p1Forever learning the art of frugality1 -
Declaring at £335.91/£350
Spent £7.39 today on baked beans, tinned chickpeas and cleaning cloths'Happiness is not a destination but the journey you walk every day'
Jan GC: £0/£100
DNF: £0/£6700
Garden sections: 0/21
DNF: 3/45
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Morning all,
Last week's shopping brought my October total to £139, with a cumulative annual grocery spend of £1293/1500.See you on the November board.Grocery challenge 2025: £1428/1500 annual budget1 -
More spends at Aldi
£15.00 exactlyGC 2025 so far £1461.52/£1710 Dec 13th - Jan 12 = £55.52/180 (includes food, toiletries and cleaning from 13th to 12th of each month.Two person vegan household, with occasional visitors)Join me on the meal plan thread : https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6356309/could-we-start-a-meal-plan-thread-again-so-its-not-lost-in-the-gc/p1Forever learning the art of frugality1
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