April 2026 Grocery Challenge

Sallyp2

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81948384#Comment_81948384

lets hope so. I used to work at M&s food HO when i left uni … i did a year in vegetable buying dept and a lot of suppliers where forced (bullied) to accept lower prices.

riverford try to highlight the treatment for farmers but sadly its not picked up or investigated when these deals go viral

Greying_Pilgrim

Sallyp2 - I admit I didn't look this time, although giving it some thought from your prompt, I struggled to think of more than one chazzer locally that sells electricals 🤔 I know one that did stock all manner of household things has recently ceased trading….. But I certainly take your point that it is possible to get new/nearly new items that are clean & inspected and a fraction of the cost.

Greying X

P.S. - I've not spent any money on groceries today - go me! 🤣🤣🤣 But I have been processing Easter veg and/or green box remnants to re-stock the freezer with 'ready' meals. Lentil dhal, tomato sauce and veg & cannellini bean soup, plus lentil bolognese (enough for tea tonight and for taking a portion away on a SC holiday)

Nelliegrace

April Budget £150.

DH bought milk £3.30 spent.

We went to Argos to order a new fitted oven from Argos. I broke mine a few weeks ago and only now feel well enough to do anything about it.

I bought the May copy of Gardeners’ World magazine £9.99, for the 2 for 1 gardens to visit voucher and booklet for the next 12 months. There are some lovely gardens locally.

Bought oranges 99p, Easter offer white potatoes 2kg 15p and a savoy cabbage 15p.

£1.29 spent on groceries.

We drove across to Aldi for the rest of the groceries.

Milk £1.65, eggs 99p, evap 55p, porridge 85p, shortbread 89p, dates £2.99, mixed seeds £1.15, grapes £1.37, bananas 88p, blueberries 150g £1.11, lemons 89p, pears 99p, Easter offer onions 8p, swede 4p, parsnips 4p, and carrots 4p.

£14.51 spent.

DH bought 2 x 6 hot cross buns from Asda on his way home from the football match.

£2 spent

Total £21.10

carboot_karaoke

Afternoon all,

I have two shops to declare £8.64 from Aldi on Wednesday. I needed lasagne sheets and garlic bread for the lasagne we were eating for dinner. Also picked up, 12 finest pork sausages 50% off, 2 x 300 chicken breast and 1kg chicken drumsticks both with 30%off.

Today l went to Tesco, l brought 3 x side of salmon costing £35.26, a further £33.11 on fruit, veg, large flora buttery x 2 while its on offer and £8.95 on bulk items, toilet roll, zip lock bags and baking soda.

Grocery Budget £131.02 / £400

Bulk Fund £12.45 / £50

Grocery Challenge £ 143.47 / £450

Going to try and keep out of the shops and eat what we have. We have a day trip planned for Wednesday so will probably need a few lunch bits for that.

As a side point…we are in need of some new basic drinking glasses. I have found some adequate looking ones from asda for 60p each total cost for 12 = £7.20. Or would you spend £12 on the same quantity from Argos?

l have an argos gift voucher so cost to me would be nothing. l do hate wasting money even if its not mine. Having said that l sometimes struggle to find things to spend vouchers on. Until l dont have one, then l can think of a million different things 🤣

PipneyJane

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81949094#Comment_81949094

@carboot_karaoke on the drinking glass question, I have a load of questions which may help you make up your mind. Do the 60p ones fulfil your needs? Do you need 12? Are the Argos ones bigger or the same size? Have you checked MrT’s and iKEA to see what they’re selling and their prices? Where are they manufactured? (I.e. the carbon cost.). Could you spend the voucher on something else? If so, what?

HTH

• Pip

carboot_karaoke

Thank you @PipneyJane excellent questions 😊

Following your advice l have looked a little closer at the descriptions and dimensions vs my existing glasses. I'm down to my last 3 😮 with 6 of us in the house I'm having to drink squash from either a pint or wine glass 😂.

Id narrowed the options to stores l can walk to, especially with the cost of fuel at the moment. l did look while l was in Tesco earlier but they had sold out.

I'm going to go with the glasses from Asda. Thank you for helping me decide.

goldfinches

Evening all, I had rather a high spending day yesterday as I went to Tesco for ys baby toms, kitchen roll, ys pears and decaf instant coffee. Then I went to Aldi for self raising flour, granulated sugar, cocoa, icing sugar, spf50 sun cream, creme fraiche, 2x garlic, eggs, floor wipes and sultanas. Then I had to go on to Waitrose to get mixed peel as Aldi weren't stocking it at all.

That all brings my new main GC total to £46.41/£180 which is a bit worrying so early in the month so I'm resolved to eat from stores for the rest of this week apart from buying milk tomorrow.

ETA: The baking ingredients I bought were for home baking so come into the main gc budget.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Afternoon GC'rs

£2.70 spend to own up to today in m&$ - 2 x YS'd hot cross buns and 2 x 'brown baggy' YS'd bananas. I have already updated my siggie figgie.

Greying X

cowboymum

Bought coffee from Aldi today £3.49 - paid with change that I found in my cupboard (also found just over £20 in change which I paid into my bank account - glad I cleared the cupboard out!)

Also bought 5l eco washing up liquid from Amazon for £15.20 - that will probably be 3months worth.

Sallyp2

Feeling smug as persuaded myself not to impulse visit co-op or sainsburys convenience on way home from dog walk and allotment visit

first trip to allotment since october - first step back in is always the hardest 🥕