April 2026 Grocery Challenge

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Afternoon GC'rs

I have spends to declare - on this thread, and the May thread 😬 There was a reason for my spending.

I went to the little MrL (after a visit to the library), and bought red onions x 2, olive spread and a 4 pinter whole milk. This didn't quite reach the £5 spend needed to trigger the newby/joining vouchers I have, BUT I left it at that. I was the right side of town for fArmF00ds, so went for a looksie. I wanted cubed frozen ginger, but they had none (again), but I did buy some bits and pieces whilst i was there, but as they won't be used until May, they will be tallied against my May budget. I got; 2 x 410g pr1nces fruit cocktail tins for £1, 3 x 400g butter beans for £1, 2 x 500g passata for 39p ea, and 2 bottles (500ml) of Bee-V0ir farms apple and blackcurrant cordial (glass bottles) for 69p each. I thought these were particularly good value. I also bought some salt for killing weeds in the lawn, but that will come out of non food - so in total, my FF/May budget expenditure today stands at £4.26.

On the return journey, I did pop into the bigger MrL for some feta cheese. I saw that there were loads of green boxes on the side. Most of the boxes didn't appeal - they were 'potato' boxes, or 'cabbage' boxes or 'parsnip' boxes, but there were 2 that I liked the look of, and I plumped for one (mostly fruit if we're counting tomatoes as a fruit), that I thought I could make use of. So £2 box, 85p feta, and I got the TV listings guide too. Final stop was 'omebargins for yoghurt, £3 spent.

My total spend today, that will be used in 'someway' (probably) before the start of May is £10.11. Which is either very close to, or over what was left …… 😬

Greying X

Finstickle

Declaring for April at:

£250.11/£350

Really pleased with this, although not quite sure how exactly I managed it. Weekly shop is now down to £40/£50 as a regular value with a few top ups. I'm keeping it at the same value as I have a weekend away and a festival in May both of which I will be buying food/alcohol for so I think this month I will spend the budget, but am shopping my cupboards and sticking to lots of veggie options to keep the cost down, although I am now eating meat again.

Sallyp2

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81979783#Comment_81979783

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Nelliegrace

Grocery Budget for April £150.

A stocking up shop at Asda. Milk £1.65 x 2, mixed spice £1 x 2, muesli 1kg £2 x 2, corned beef £1.97 x 2, fusilli 500g, wholemeal and tricolore 2 for £1.20, a courgette 70p, leeks 97p, broccoli 79p, and mushrooms 97p.

Yellow stickered items; satsumas 24p, bakery sourdough loaf 80p, beef steak mince 500g £3.32 to freeze in portions, rindless pork loin joint 700g £3.27 to freeze. Buns added by DH 89p, he came back from the in-store bakery with an armful of cheap cakes so I said to choose one! He was going to make a loaf today but went to play bowls instead!

£26.39 spent

Total for April £144.78

goldfinches

All my plans went out of the window because I had a bad night so stayed in bed until 11:30am to try to make up for it.
Once I was up I decided to make the most of the fairly sunny day here and went shopping on my bicicyle, I spent £2.28 on two huge bunches of dill and coriander although I noticed that the coriander bunch had suffered from shrinkflation to keep it at 99p.

That makes my new totals

Main GC total £176.69/£180
Baking Fund total £13.39/£30
Bulk Buy Fund total £32/£48

I shall need some chocolate and some cream for tomorrow's bake which will come out of that fund and I have spotted Gold Blend Instant jars on offer in Sains for £5.20 which is the lowest I've seen for several years so I shall stock up on those too.

T-2 and counting.

K9sandFelines

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81979045#Comment_81979045

Other spends were £5.49 and £6.56, on the 22 nd @HB and @Ald!; totalling £12.05 on fruit and veg, nuts, seeds, milk and bread, and £75.28 overall for the month

LotsOfTea

I'm another one who has gone over budget this month. I had a delivery of £115.70 but it included some stock-up items which I didn't need immediately but which had reductions so it made sense to me.

£319.08/£300 for the month. Onwards to May!

cowboymum

Last shops of this month - Riverford 19.95 ; Iceland £1; Tesco £3.08

total for month £611.55 / £620.

Quite pleased with that! Tomorrow's shopping will go onto May budget so will see you over on the May grocery thread!

Matron_Midge

Declaring April at £460.13/£400. Over budget and knew I would be as stocks were running low. I took £60.13 out of my £200 slush fund and I was under budget jan-mar.

We are now well stocked on everything and freezers are full to bursting. I will only need fresh stuff and cheese during May.

I’ll see you over on the May thread.

diminua

Declaring at 19p over. I underestimated how much milk I'd want - pleased to report I made a flask of coffee and took some choc-nut-raisin mix for a long canal walk on Sunday though. Often I kid myself I'll wait and then end up in a coffee shop.