But seriously, have you ever worked out your average grocery bill? Assuming you are at home all the time as now.
If it really is £10 a week, the OAP etc is extremely generous. ;-)
My food parcel included toilet soap, shower gel, and toilet rolls. But not everything you'd likely need from a supermarket for a 3 month isolation period.
Roadkill ?
no it is a two way street they owed me...tee hee
no I panic bought well before the rush...just milk and bread and fruit...thanks for your concern....
probably just buys all the marked down stuff ...
"You'll have had your tea?"
nodnodnod :-)
Owain
Too right I have. Weekly big shop at Aldi or Tesco should be £7 (average £1 per day). Some days dinner is more than £1 but some days it is less. Then a few incidentals at Asda or Morrisons. Should total about £10 a week.
January was £40 and February was £37 a month for groceries.
I know because it all goes on the credit card which is balanced monthly.
OAP!! *Do you mind*!!
One gets by.
Owain
Too right.
I still have about 4 dozen tins of haggis that were reduced to about 35p each.
Half a tin of that, and a 25p packet of value savoury rice, makes a "haggis risotto" which is a dinner for under 45p. Together with any reduced vegetables.
Quite often the reduced vegetables don't scan, and the Tesco staff are often in agreement when I say "for 12p it hardly seems worth keying it in" plaintively.
If I get a really good week on yellow stickers I can even have a bottle of plonk in my £10 budget.
But under current circumstances I have having to pay full price for almost everything. It's heartbreaking.
Owain
Haven't got a car ;-0
Owain
Just food?
What about cleaning items, loo rolls, toiletries, all the other things needed to generally maintain day to day life.
I see articles from time to time 'Woman cuts family shopping bill to £x per week' in various places I check for recipe ideas - some of the recipes are interesting, especially as they tend to use fresh ingredients and are suitable for cooking when travelling, but I always think "what about all the other things families need to buy" (not just want, need, if they are going, for example, to keep the house clean etc).
Is it good?
I love Haggis (seriously) but Senior Management isn't keen. I've seen small tins but wonder if it is any good. Once in a while she has a meal out with a group of Guide leaders and I thought I might try one.
That 25p aldi savory rice is very good.....I go for all the cheap food as well....don't like haggus though
What? A Guide leader?
It's actually 20p in Asda, I got caught out assuming Aldi was cheaper.
Owain
True - the occasional time I need to buy stuff like that it either pushes the total up, or has to be a cheap food week.
And if I buy £10 10kg bag of rice or £4 bag of 440 teabags, I regard that as exceptional expenditure outside the weekly budget, as that stuff lasts for several months.
Owain
It's acceptable; perhaps not up to the standard of freshly-caught wild haggis. I like it in a "risotto" or to make haggis and red pepper soup.
Of course up here we also get sliced haggis pudding for breakfast, or deep fried haggis in the chippies, so it would be easy to indulge even if Senior Management frowned upon it.
Used to share a flat with a chap whose girlfriend wouldn't let him have haggis, black pudding, bacon or anything like that, so I'd cook double and take it into my bedroom, then he'd climb out of his bedroom (dormer) window and along the roof on the tiles and into my bedroom.
There's a lot to be said for a haggis, black pudding and bacon roll and a glass of whisky for elevenses breakfast.
Owain
I had to have counselling once after a Welshman knocked me down on price.
Owain
Stop it! I'm salivating!
Maybe a bacon roll once in a while at 11 am, may be a whiskey once in a while at 11 pm as a night cap but never together or the other way around!
Ok, I was just curious. What you spend is up to you. I was thinking more about things you don't eat but it doesn't really matter. As I mentioned, my comment was more triggered by the various things I see on recipe / cookery pages than what you posted.
Please tell me it is Earl Grey, ideally Twinings and you just get a very good price. No one should suffer poor tea, it is cruel and unnatural.
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