November 2025 Grocery Challenge

whitecatcreamsofaDOH

Please can I join with a budget of 

£500 for November

This covers groceries, cleaning products and toiletries for two adults and a cat 🐈‍⬛ 

TravelCrystal

Morning G.Cers

Welcome to all the newbie’s 
I’m sure you will find the thread useful.
Keeps me on track I know.


First report of the month for me, trying to keep the spending as low as possible.

Saturday I had to buy eggs in Asda £2.73
In the local Tesco’s, Milk, sausages and something I can’t remember 🤭 came to £6.95 

Today I went to Lidl’s 
Their f and v box has gone up to £2, shock, horror. In it today were bananas, oranges, sprouts, potatoes, garlic, carrots and a courgette. So I only had to buy a sweet potato as extra, oh and some YS mushrooms for 49p

Also had discounted Yoghurts, pears, onions and pate.
Eggs, butter, cooking marg, cheese, apple juice to go over my bacon joint when it comes on Friday. Tom puree, coffee, mustard, horse and tartare. 

I further succumbed to more mince pies and a Christmas cake. Don’t know how long I can resist eating either.
I intend to make Christmas puddings in the slow cooker as I already have the ingredients.

I am waiting for my bulk supply of meat to come on Friday to see if I have any spare freezer space and will make the puds accordingly. £44.26 spent 

Total so far £53.94/£200

T.C

TheBees

Declaring £348 for October which is £2 below the target!  Rejoining the grocery challenge has definitely made me stop and think about spends.  We will try again for the same budget this month.
Last week I was away so DH made a menu plan for the upcoming week for a change.
I really need to pull everything out of the freezer to see what we can use up.
Good luck everyone 

JingsMyBucket

Budgets updated to here. 

I've still managed to stay out of the shops this week. I'll likely head into the stores on Thursday for coffee, eggs, and fruit. 

Soontobeoap

Saved £6.94 with nectar on things we regularly buy there. Still managed to spend £56.00 though. Bulk bought sugar ribena and also got toilet rolls so got a lot for our money but it's still a shock compared to Aldi shops!

JingsMyBucket

Adding £4.75 for coffee beans. Mr. Jings just came home with a bag he bought himself.  

£9.50 / £70 weekly budget spent. £60.50 remaining until Nov 7. 

£270.50 budget and £70 bulk budget remaining. 

AnotherNewDay

I didn't take part in October challenge, and it really showed in the shopping bill.

So back with £105 for November please - split as £45 for cats and £60 for human groceries/household/toiletries

Currently at £14.25/£45 for cats and £37.28/ £60 for human

LotsOfTea

I had a supermarket delivery this morning which came to £78.82. I tried to keep it mostly sensible necessities but did buy a bag of chestnuts to roast just because the weather is making me feel like warming things. All the things being advertised are pumpkin spiced this, hot honey that and Dubai chocolate the other so I feel fairly pleased that I bought something that wasn't loaded with a ton of extra sugar as my warming treat.

£78.83/£300

Suffolk_lass

I have done my big monthly shop for November. With £37.82 stores, I spent £100.54. That was yesterday. Ingredients towards cooking for Christmas, I made mincemeat. Today I went to Waitflower to buy the undyed glace cherries and some cane sugar, more lemons, spices and dried fruit. With the ginger root and turmericI bought to make a honey mix for cooking, plus snacks for tomorrow night's book club, I was at £52.46 but only £2.46 extra as I used vouchers for the rest. £225 is still achievable, even with only subscription and (milk) direct debit for definite. Fingers crossed for frugality now

JingsMyBucket

@AnotherNewDay I've got you logged. 

Afternoon all. I have a few more purchases to declare from this morning. I’m adding on another £4.75 bag of coffee beans because I realized this morning Mr. Jings had bought two last night instead of the one I recorded. 

£6.05 at Iceland for eggs and sliced ham. 

£1.76 at M & S for bananas, chicken leg quarters, YS 1kg of 5% fat ground beef, and 2 cans of baked beans. It was originally £11.76 but I had the £9 off voucher from stocking up last month. I essentially got the ground beef and the chicken for free. I’ll divvy up the 1kg of ground beef into bags of 300g / 300g / 400g. 

£22.06 / £70 weekly budget spent. £47.94 remaining until Nov 7. 

£257.94 budget and £70 bulk budget remaining.