November 2025 Grocery Challenge

moginstein

Jings, I'm guessing that it might be the Gloucester Services? Tebay is on the M6, but the description for Gloucester says it is owned by the same group.
Not been to either, but I have heard good things about both, and its nice to have a break from travel somewhere a bit nicer than your average services.

otb666

670 Thats 70 over but it will be last shop this month  as I go from 23rd to 23rd.  I blame the 41p eggs that aldi sold me earlier on in month. Have got all the xmas shopping though apart from Yorkshires. including chocolate. Seriously though there is a big difference in prices across shops. Farm shop sells eggs for 30p. And the air fresh plug ins.are 4 pounds in co op but 6.99 in chemists.  Seems some shops get their increases in alot quicker than other shop and its easy to get caught out even in aldi

TheBees

TheBees are checking in today having spent £226/£350 so far this month. 
£11 at the butcher
£7.95 for IKEA meatballs
Eggs from the farm shop
And the rest is Tesco and Aldi shops.
12 more days left of the month so will make a meal plan and try to make sure the next food shop is less than £100. Fingers crossed

K9sandFelines

Did a Deliveroo order as ran out of cat food, and I  had a code. So, a £20 odd  order came to £12.46 I think it was.

This included five 12 pack boxes of senior cat food and two little bags catnip treats, aswell as a bag of sugar.

So, I'm calling it a £1 for the sugar.

TravelCrystal

@JingsMyBucket it certainly is. Need to bypass the farm shop it’s too tempting. When we had our narrow boat we used to call in on the way up and buy lots of deli bits as a treat 😊 @moginstein, yes Gloucester 

Soontobeoap

It's the small wins I love and today I have had a few of them. So 3 beef joints bought half price with nectar. Also a huge gammon joint for £10. 1/3 off, chicken £1.00 off at £4.35. I have cut one beef joint in half for small roasts but I will roast the other 2 and then make casserole and steak and kidney pies with the extras. Also soup. I cut the gammon into 3 which will be roasted for one day and then do 2 more meals as cold meat.so £50.76 spent on meat that will last us into march as we are away in January, my total was £81.14

thriftwizard

I'm resigned to going over this month, sadly. A combined market & supermarket spend of £69.56 leaves me at 410.42, leaving me just under £40 for the rest of the month. I've just discovered that I shouldn't be eating most of the fruit that's available cheaply, i.e. citrus & apples, alongside some medication I'm on, hopefully temporarily. Sigh. More expensive options acquired; I can't let my fibre levels drop too far, for very genuine medical reasons. And I should really have added another £20 which I've stashed under"family contingency", following a visit down to my 99 y.o. mother, then on down to DD1 10 miles further west. A massive traffic jam on the way back left us too late to stick to the meal plan for dinner, & a swift run to the supermarket (literally a run, it's about 400 yards away) resulted in supplies for an unexpected (but welcome!) quick-to-cook curry. To be fair, that went on to do another main meal with baked potatoes last night, and the unused ham will live to be eaten another day, and there are still good stocks in the freezer, but I don't want to use them up at this point, early in the winter. So I'll just keep tabs on how much over budget I have to go...

carboot_karaoke

Soontobeoap said:

It's the small wins I love and today I have had a few of them. So 3 beef joints bought half price with nectar. Also a huge gammon joint for £10. 1/3 off, chicken £1.00 off at £4.35. I have cut one beef joint in half for small roasts but I will roast the other 2 and then make casserole and steak and kidney pies with the extras. Also soup. I cut the gammon into 3 which will be roasted for one day and then do 2 more meals as cold meat.so £50.76 spent on meat that will last us into march as we are away in January, my total was £81.14

An excellent meat haul 😁

carboot_karaoke

Afternoon all,

I have a top up shop to declare most, fresh fruit & veg with a few store cupboard items. Meat wise, just 2kg chicken thighs brought deboned & deskinned to make into two meals. 

Total spent £39.72 and £5.34 bulk. I will need to pop to Asda at some point for squash, cheese and salad.

New Totals 

Grocery Budget £234.72 / £360
Bulk Fund £29.66 / £50
Grocery Challenge £ 264.38 / £410

Still £145 remaining not sure how, although l think Mr CK has brought a few bits this month maybe £20 worth. But as he paid himself and wont have got an receipt  l haven't included the cost. 

K9sandFelines

£15.97 Too good to go parcel - dairy free chocolate spread 
£3.82 @ Aldi! on d.f. cheese, lemonade ( to add to packet cake mix), and forgot what else ( DD2 went for me).
Some bits coming from Am@zon also.
£9.63

£39.59