I found a shopping reciept from 1996

[KindergartenKop]

Ok, so it's not quite a badly written shopping list but close. So retro! I found it in a book I bought from Amazon.

Interestingly, the date is the day I started my periods!

What were you up to in 1996? What is Mexicorn?

[PTW1234]

How cheap is all that fruit and veg!!

[Cherryberrypies]

It’s all so cheap!!!!

[JanewaysBun]

Wow! The tea is 72p!

[Butterymuffin]

Being young and carefree! The 90s were good times. Had been to a festival that summer and was enjoying flat sharing. Ate all sorts of things at the time but never came across Mexicorn!

[NotDavidTennant]

Mexicorn was tinned sweetcorn with little bits of bell pepper added to make it 'Mexican'.

[vomcomvomcom]

I think Mexicorn was a tin of sweet corn with chopped up red and green peppers in it

[BobbinThreadbare123]

That Marmite hasn't gone up than much, for almost 25 years. It's £2.69 for 250 g now.

[smallandimperfectlyformed]

I wonder if mexicorn is tinned sweetcorn with peppers inside it?

[TheQueef]

I had a DC in 96
Mexicorn was like beanfeast iirc.

[NoraLuka]

Beanfeast! Does that still exist? Reminds me of when I just started being vegetarian 😊

[Spied]

Wow. Parisian baguette!
No idea about the mexicorn.
1996 I was an off the rails 16yr old on a mission to self-destruct. I certainly wasn't out shopping.

[vomcomvomcom]

Love how I can’t remember to pay a bill but can easily remember obscure foods from 30 years ago haha

[Aroundtheworldin80moves]

Sweetcorn with beans in it?

I was at primary school.

[NannyR]

Mexicorn was tinned sweetcorn with bits of pepper in it, green giant brand I think?

[formerbabe]

Oh I love this...it combines my two passions, nostalgia and supermarket shopping!

[TheQueef]

No junk though, looks like they were doing SW.

[AndIquote]

Fig rolls, can you still get them?

[LaurieFairyCake]

I'm shocked how cheap NOW Rich Tea biscuits are - this is one of the reasons we have an obesity crisis, our reliance to feed children crap if you're poor as fruit/veg much dearer than biscuits etc

[Kez0777]

Beanfeast, how I started my veggie years! I am so pleased we have all the stuff we have now!

[Fabuleuse]

Also started my period in October 96 although it was the 7th... at school, traumatic! Thought I was weird for remembering the date.

[HagenDaz]

Nope, Weight Watchers: “WW Tasty Cheese” which means it was probably vile.

[StopGo]

£30 in 1996 would be roughly £48 in 2020. That said I'm not convinced it would be enough for that list today.

[grafittiartist]

Awe- Beanfeast was a staple on my shopping lists in 1996 too!!

[wellthatsunusual]

I think food is much cheaper now in comparison to income than it was in 1996. I was a student then and I remember a pint of milk being 45p. It's only 50p now almost 25 years later. Same with bread, a loaf cost around 80p and now I can buy a cheap one in Tesco for around the same price or a nicer one for around £1.

[BlackboardMonitorVimes]

Oh my goodness, that was our main supermarket back in the day. I shopped in there in the 80s as a child with my Mum! I think it's still there.