June 2026 Grocery Challenge

Sallyp2

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are you avoiding Upf's?

its really good to eat whole foods

Nelliegrace

@Sallyp2 I would not call those dubious chemicals food, and I believe they are harmful. I try to buy ingredients which my mother and grandmother would recognise.

Sallyp2

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i agree. You'll likely live forever lovely eating & shopping the way you do 😊

PipneyJane

Afternoon All

Well, this is an odd occurrence. Following some small shops this week, we’ve spent every penny of our June GC budget! We’re bound to go over.

I’m not declaring yet, but we’re at £195.30/£195.30 !

Since my last post, we’ve spent the following:

• £3.36 in Sainsbugs on Sunday, on Wild rocket £1 and YS Honey roast ham £2.36.
• £6.71 in Sainsbugs on Tuesday, on peppers £1.44, bananas 78p, spring onion 69p, 450g Yeo Valley Greek Yoghurt With Honey 2x£1.86. These were items we definitely would use before month end.
• £6.67 by my DH in L!dl on Wednesday night, on YS Haddock Fishcakes 2x£1.14, Red Onion & Cheddar Quiche £3.10 and premium coleslaw £1.29.
• £1.10 in L1dl today, spent by DH on coleslaw.
• £4.23 in L1dl today by me, on spring onions 49p, rocket 69p and a packet of 12 ice creams £3.05.

Why the three L!dl shops? Well, on Wednesday evening, I was wondering what on earth we could eat for the rest of the week, it being too hot to cook, DH objecting to hot food, and me having exhausted all my salad-with-something ideas (potato salad served with grilled salmon, French whole lentil salad with added (leftover) salmon, and tabouli with added smoked mackerel). DH went in search of a quiche.

Today, DH popped in to the L!dl near his office, in the blind hope he’d find one of their tower-style fans. No such luck, but he nabbed the coleslaw. He then checked their website, which said there was stock near home, so emailed me.

I went to our local branch at 3pm, after finishing work. No fans of any description. Bought the spring onions and rocket because we need them, then went a little mad and blew the rest of the budget on ice creams. I’d been looking at their frozen fruit. (We have an offer on the 1kg bags of frozen mixed berries but none in stock.). Bought the ice creams as a surprise for DH.

• Pip

RedRose61

A couple more spends. Had a Sainsbugs delivery for all of our meal plans until the end of the month.
£65.95 spent.
I was thinking that I had done well until hubby informed me that his son was visiting at the weekend! Luckily I’ve got a big lamb joint in the freezer and enough veggies to go with it. However, needed mint sauce, gravy, ingredients to make a pudding and some other snacks for him. And so I had to pop to Aldi to pick these up. £7.26 spent.

£256.59 out of £300 spent.

Fingers crossed that there are no more spends.

I’m happy with my first month but I had lots of stock in my store cupboards and freezer. We also had a bulk buy from the previous month of Longlife skimmed milk, washing powder, washing up liquid and toilet rolls. If I’d had to buy these this month it would have been much closer.
I’ve kept all of my receipts and so I’m going to check them all and see where I can shave some more off the budget for next month.
Have a lovely weekend everyone. X

carboot_karaoke

Evening all,

Today l braved the heat and went to Tesco for our final shop of the month, unfortunately this turned into TWO trips to Tesco, because in the first superstore l visited all the meat, cheese, chilled food, fridges were empty or being emptied 😱 there was literally £1000's of food been wheeled away before my eyes destined for the bin apparently. The heat had cause the fridges to stop keeping the food at the required temperature. Awful waste not to mention the inconvenience of driving to another superstore in 33 degrees.

Quite a lot of the food l brought wont be used until next month so I'll record one receipt here and the other on the July thread.

I needed washing tabs, food bags and a few toiletries that will come out of the bulk fund. £15.60 spent on those. Another £31.76 spent on fruit, veg, salad, nando's sauce l don't normally buy but, it was on offer and earned me 50 Clubcard points.

Grocery Budget £378.99 / £400

Bulk Fund £52.71 / £50

Grocery Challenge £ 431.70 / £450

See you on the July thread

Soontobeoap

Forgot to record £12.00 spent in the range on bits whilst in the range a week ago. Added to my signature. Really glad with how this month is shaping up

K9sandFelines

£5.13 spent the other day in Ald! - on courgettes, bananas and can't remember what else

Suffolk_lass

Bought milk but once again, our delivered milk has gone off before it has been used. I might suspend it for the next month and do the local Co-op run instead (any excuse to step inside their air conditioned shop, lol). 2 pints of whole organic is £2.15 instead of £3.10 for semi-organic from the milkman, so a small saving might be possible there

LotsOfTea

I had a shopping delivery on Wednesday that will be the last for the month which came to £50.58. I made sure there were plenty of ice lollies included and have been grateful over the last few days that they all got delivered. I ended up slightly over budget but I'm still happy as it's only by a little bit.

£301.96/£300