July 2026 Grocery Challenge

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning GC'rs

I've just noticed that m0rr1s0ns has got a 20% discount on their 'World Food' items. Has anyone any intel on how long the promo is set for? Our local store has only just recently got into WF, and whilst it's a vast improvement on what went before (ie zero), they don't have as much variety as a store across the way that serves a much more cosmopolitan catchment. I don't mind travelling to the bigger store, but would need to combine it with another trip somehow - ie school uniform shopping or a day trip out in the school holidays (if the promo is on that long).

I'm not a routine m0rries shopper, but there are several items ie 1kg brick packs of pulses, that are about the cheapest i have seen. I also could have saved had I bought my lemon and lime juices from their yesterday 🙄

EDIT - the lovely Suffolk_lass has said that online orders for m0rries, have to be in by 21st July for the WF discounted items, so that's a date to aim for. What a wonderful community we have on MSE - so helpful!

Greying X

t14cy_t

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£18 spent today for the community pantry, this covers july. this was todays basket!

diminua

£19.99 spent - vinegar and soy sauce, fruit, salad veg, milk, root ginger and mange tout (for a stir fry later with some already-cooked salmon and rice), tinned fish, pesto, milk and margarine. I forgot eggs and marmite so will pick those up this evening.

Suffolk_lass

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82055450#Comment_82055450

I just checked out pulses and none are on offer in my Morries shopping but there are lots of offers in World Foods that all seem to end on 21st July

Greying_Pilgrim

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82055495#Comment_82055495

I'm interested in the beans and lentils that are in the La1la brand 1kg brick packs that are on offer. I prefer the MrT offers - usually on 2kg packs - but at present, m0rr1es is the cheapest for some of the items I need. I rarely if ever see black-eye peas on offer where I am (and I don't think they are in this current offer - I've never seen them in m0rr1es), although i did drop lucky with some RTC B-E brick packs in MrT, around Easter time. I'll have to check whether our local M has the brick packs - if they don't, I will have to plan a trip to the bigger store. Thanks for your help - the 21st July is doable in terms of visiting the other store.

Greying X

Soontobeoap

Welcome @ burtha. Good luck this month

Suffolk_lass

@Greying_Pilgrim none of the brand brick packs are in the online shop (that means nothing, things regularly disappear, especially savers things) - but their coconut milk is on offer.

Milk and cream purchased after the football last night (I made pink gooseberry fool with some of our crop; delicious!) but the strawberries are still MIA from Coop, as is icecream bars (well all ice cream due to freezers not working properly in the heat (!!) and also the in-store bakery oven has broken (heat, they think). The store is new, only opened in February and has had the front plate glass broken three times since, for low-level cigarette thieves.

The car park is a really dreadful design and the pavement is the same colour and kerb as the car park markings (ie the kerb, which is raised is the same colour as the bay markings) resulting in may near misses as people leaving the cashpoint and the disabled bays don't make the distinction between the two and almost run over the pedestrians returning to their vehicles

path_to_1m

did an Olio collection last night and fell into the trap of seeing some good deals on treats for the kids and got them!
DOH
oh well

24.50 / 350

Greying_Pilgrim

Update ref m0rries 20% off World Foods offer. I went to my local (medium size) store. They had the offer bunting up which confirmed 24th June - 21st July. The pulses available in 1 kg brick packs at my branch were; red lentils, chickpeas and channa dhal for £2. A good offer, but I'm lucky we have a fArmf00ds, and they routinely carry 1kg packs of all of those (plus RKB's) for £1.29/£1.49. I did pick up some lime juice (60p 250ml), they were oos of the lemon - same price/size, and I got some tahini, cyp3s$a brand £2.56 instead of £3.20.

Considering our branch hasn't had a WF section that long, I was quite impressed, although there wasn't much for me, personally. A trip to a different store may yet yield what I'm after.

Total grocery spend today £3.22. Bulk fund spend £1.20. I did visit fArmf00ds as I was close, but nothing doing today (is sometimes the way), but they did have all the pulses in that M had - hence price comparison.

Greying X

thriftwizard

What on earth? Finding the new editor baffling on an iPad - am I really one character too short?! Now it's all emboldened itself!

Back from the Bronze Age now & catching up with the store cupboard & the week's shopping; I'll swear that everything in L!dls has gone up by 50p! A scary £177.38 spent so far. So £272.62 left to play with, and extra mouths to feed this weekend and onwards. Some more will be spent at tomorrow's market, hoovering up any huge bargains; I'm hoping they still have some of the £4 boxes of Dutch tomatoes, which have been gorgeous & I don't think a single one has gone to waste. But my own tomatoes are beginning to ripen up now too. I'm also digging up Alouette potatoes, and they're just delicious however you cook them; off to fetch some more in a mo!