June 2026 Grocery Challenge

Blackcats

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thank you @nelliegrace - you are right, we won't be shopping again until Thursday 18th so I can get back on track. The hoped for underspend is still possible 🥳

PipneyJane

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I suppose he could have calves’ liver pâté and raw vegetables? @PipneyJane

He’d have to cook the pate first, @Nelliegrace 😀.

I do feel your pain, though. You could always try the message that I once left an ex: “Your dinner would be in the dog, if we had one.” I remember being totally furious that he hadn’t arrived home before midnight and hadn’t bothered to phone to tell me why. (This was pre-mobile phones.)

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ETA; I’m struggling to make quotes work. Does anyone know how?

LotsOfTea

I was mildly annoyed this morning while making DS's packed lunch to discover that DH had used the last of the cucumber and peppers yesterday (he's been doing packed lunches for the most part) and didn't tell me when I mentioned I was going to pop into Aldi yesterday as I was going to be nearby. In fact, he hadn't even seemed to notice he'd used the last ones at all, as when I mentioned we'd run out this morning he looked bewildered 'have we?'

Anyway, I went to the mini supermarket attached to the local garage this afternoon and got them so £2.99 spent.

£199.18/£300 spent so far.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning June GC'rs!

Just back from this week's shop. I went to aldee and leedl today. aldee was just for 'lunchbox' bits for my kiddo, there are several things i prefer from that shop, but I dislike the shop. Well some of the staff aren't very nice in that store, so I shop there for a 'term' at a time, to reduce visits. So today's purchases span June and July until the end of term, so I've pro-rata'd the cost and I will add July's spend to July's figures. So aldee accounted for £4.92 on cereal bars and mini baked cheese biscuits.

I was lucky enough to get a green box in leedle today, It was…….. all…. fruit 🤔 I think. There were apples and bananas in the box, as well as nectarines, mangoes and blueberries, and the clincher for me was a net of avocados. There were also some red peppers and a lettuce pack, which I'm hopeful I can rescue from the dead. I spent, in total £44.43 in leedle, which meant i was eligible for the extra bonus points. I also used….. 5 (I think) of my money off coupons. I didn't use the 'scratchcard' 30% off, as, surprise, surprise, leedle were oos of those particular oven chips. That's actually not an issue, as I don't think we use those type of oven chips - and I just bought a bag of the frozen oven chips we prefer (we've used up all our Easter potatoes now). Our store had the big 1.14L bottles of distilled vinegar in, for 65p, which is useful, as I use it primarily in the washing machine, so it's less empty plastic bottles into the recycling.

Total food and food like substances spend of £49.35 today. Under budget - go me! Even better as some of the spend was storecupboard re-stocking. No alcohol was bought today, and I'm probably going to struggle for cheese after the weekend (although I prefer Sainsbugs cheese, so will try to limp to my next shop there - cheese is primarily for workday sandwiches with us).

No YS'd bargains today, but I'm grateful for the green box contents, which were useful/valuable to me this week. There were a couple of lower prices in leedle - sultanas, cherry tomatoes and rye bread - price cuts are always appreciated, as was a few 'useable' coupons in the shopping app - please take note Sainsbugs! 😆 It helps me to just feel there is a little bit of an incentive to use 'X' store over 'Y'.

I'm away to adjust my siggie figgies.

ETA: If I don't spend any money on food in the next week, I will have managed to claw back my daily spend average to £7.33. I'll be pleased if I can do this, but we are low on cheese, so it may not be possible

Greying X

Sallyp2

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The lidl green box sounds amazing and you can make & freeze loads of smoothie mixes! (apples / bananas / nectarines / mangoes / blueberries / avocados)

Sallyp2

shops this week as cupboards were bare after cold turkey last week … oh had a man strop about beans "on toast" tea Monday 😊(@Rowan9)

anyway … sains £6.50 / co-op £2.34 / co-op £71.90 = £80.74

spent £202.79 vs budget £270 = £67.21 rem

its a maybe doable this month 🤔

t14cy_t

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82038132#Comment_82038132

sometimes its great to go back to basics and have beans on toast….you stop to wonder why you dont have it more often!

gran3

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I feel your pain, we've run out of …… so why did you not a. tell me ,b get some when you were out?

C_J

Can’t beat beans on toast! I like the idea of one evening meal a week being something on toast.

A visit to my favourite community fridge today, and my £1 donation yielded lots of fruit (strawberries, grapes, lemons, apples, bananas, pomegranate and a net of satsumas), veg (potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, carrots, spinach, red chillies, padron peppers, avocados, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, celery, pak choi, aubergines, green pepper, chestnut mushrooms and the biggest globe artichoke in the world), bread (ciabatta rolls, Jackson’s seeded sourdough loaf, a pack of crumpets, a Waitrose chicken wrap and two custard crown pastries), ham, eggs, milk and salad stuff plus a pack of posh M&S sausages …. so plenty of scope for menu planning for the coming week. Oh, and a beautiful bouquet of white roses. I’m so lucky to have this place (there are many community fridges in the vicinity, pretty much one for every day of the week, but this is by far the best).

June grocery spends so far are now £28.87/£150 although I will need to get a few bits (butter, squash, Pepsi etc) from Sainsbury’s before the weekend.

Soontobeoap

All this talk of beans on toast. That's what we are having tomorrow now. I also added in pasties today made with the left over stew. I am managing to stretch the meal plan really well and we can venture into next week without buying too much I think. We will be heading g toorriso s tomorrow to see if we can bit some chocolate oranges for 97p bit they will be for craft club to make knotted covers for Christmas so won't be out of my budget. 🙂