October 2025 Grocery Challenge

Soontobeoap

Welcome @andybear09 the more the merrier.

weenancyinAmerica

Welcome @andybear09. Don't miss the hints from Pip. The lnk is at the bottom of page 1. Wonderful information to help you save.

AnotherNewDay

I'm in for £115 this month @elsiepac. That's £45 for the cats and £70 for me including all groceries, toiletries and household.

I have a 1/2 leg of lamb in the freezer and after cleaning the pantry realised I have 8 tins of coca-nut milk , 9 tins of chickpeas and 3 bags of red lentils - so think there will be some curries on the horizon

t14cy_t

£104 for this month, will be interesting!! hopefully olio will help us out!!

SausageDogSandwich

Thank you for the thread @elsiepac , can I please but be put down for 

£400 for October please.

As normal this is for 2 adults & three children (who eat more than me) for all spending plus a few dog treats but not food. 

We need some fresh fruit and salad tomorrow so I’m planning to keep under £10 and then get the big shop Sunday night. There will be a few odd meals made with bits and bobs but we will survive  . 

Nelliegrace

October Budget for Two Pensioners, £5 a day, £155.

We foraged a few sweet chestnuts yesterday, it is still a bit early here. 

Shopped at Asda for a few staples and milk, their Lancashire farm yoghurt is reduced from £1.80 to £1.58 a litre.
Pudding rice, bulgur wheat, tinned corned beef x 2, Allinson wholemeal SR flour £2 for kilo, (plain WM is £2.30,) sultanas, cream crackers, Scottish oatcakes now £1.14 up 25p, and budget salted peanuts and onions. DH added yellow-stickered, puff pastry mince pies 40p and hot cross buns 34p, from the bakery. 

(The vitamins and minerals are 3 for 2 again. They are not in the grocery budget. The dog has cod liver oil. I bought zinc tablets for winter. Note, if you buy 3 of each put one lot through the till separately or you get just the two cheapest free.)

£20.62 spent.

Soontobeoap

Here we go. This months started. I bought a loaf and a tin of peaches at Sainsburys on my way through Cowes yesterday. £2.47  on bread and a tin of peaches. Today in Aldi we spent ££31.94 on grocery's and in Sainsburys £23.70. A total of £58.11 to start the month off.

Sainsburys had beef joints at 25% off and I did toy with the idea of getting one. However last year they were half price in November so I am waiting a while to see if we can get a better offer. I hope that I don't live to regret it. 🙂

thriftwizard

And I've galloped off into October's "allowance" with a combined butcher/supermarket spend of £57.23, some of which may not get used for a week or so; I bought a fairly large unsmoked gammon joint, which will last in the fridge for several weeks, as they don't always have them when I want one. But this week's menus will be based on chicken (Sunday's roast, then various leftover dishes) and minced beef (Saturday, then Thursday) though fish will feature somewhere in there, bought tomorrow at the market along with whatever fruit & veg are best value. I will expect to spend around £50 tomorrow altogether; some extra fish will probably be acquired for later reference & stored in the freezer.
I will need to do a non-perishables run sometime next week (which is already looking fairly busy, aaargh!) but we don't need very much apart from tinned beans & chickpeas - or is that famous last words again?!

angelpye

Budget £280 for October


First time on this challenge for me but would like to get control of the grocery budget. This is for 1 adult and 1 teen, some dietary requirements, includes all cleaning and toiletries. Hoping this keeps me more accountable than my spreadsheet!

thriftwizard

I actually spent £62 this morning, as the fishmonger didn't have exactly what I wanted and the next suitable option (white fish "fingers" i.e. small-but-chunky fillets) was more expensive; a "value" judgement meant I did go for it as I know OH & DD2 will eat them but might refuse anything less familiar, like mackerel, which I love & would have been cheaper, but not if it just went to waste! However there are now 2-weeks' worth of "pie-fish" - £5 for 500g - in the freezer too, so that's money I don't need to spend later in the month. And queueing I don't need to do, etc. etc.. Swings & roundabouts...