What is your most expensive weekly food purchase

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And where do you buy it?

Just me being curious nosey

Today I Made an unexpected trip to Waitrose to look about and bought some frozen meatballs for £3.60. Expensive for me.

Apart from wine , I probably spend the most money on ground coffee, £3.50 a pack & I easily get through three packs a week, on my own.

Anything gluten free for my child who has Coeliac disease. It's all about 3-4 times the price of the muggle equivalent.

Fruit
Cheeses
Honey.
Hotel chocolat

Berries, Yorkshire tea bags, free range chicken, nice M&S bacon and ham.

And yes, collective suckie yogurts, I went back to pots as they’re so expensive but soon remembered what a mess my toddler enjoys making with a spoon at the moment so we went back to the suckies this week. I do have plastic waste and budget guilt about it though!

stopdropandroll
...the no bull quarter pounders, pulled pork and tofu burgers were £1 last week / if they still are you should stock up!

Thanks for the tip, I'll have a look when I go on Saturday ☑

Oliversmumsarmy
We don't get them every week but those vivera fake steak things
We love those. We do them with chunky chips, mushrooms and vegetables

We usually have them as a "beef" stroganoff served with rice but we sometimes make steak & chips with a creamy mushroom sauce. I'm a bit funny with chips though because I don't like them too thin but neither do I like them so thick that they're not cooked in the middle!

Leg of lamb for Sunday lunch and wine

@BuzzShitbagBobbly I moved over to thighs for a few months and they are juice, but we kept finding more and more gristle, tubes etc and we just got the ick about them

@tkband3 can you get prescriptions for bread and flour that is gf?

Fish.

@LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett could I have some sources for your info? Lice?!

@calpoppincalpol prescriptions for bread? You're barmy

Coffee beans for DH - usually £4 a bag
DS age 3, picky eater really bumps up my bill - £3 granola, raspberries, watermelon, cheese, yogurts. Also, nappies but to be fair Sainsbury's ones are reasonably priced.
DH loves Lurpak but I just get Sainsbury's butter.

My uncle has had Coeliac's disease since the early 90s. Back then the only way he could get gluten free bread was on prescription. Thanks to the fashion for gluten free food that has transformed over the last 20 years and the offerings in the supermarket are much better than the NHS choices now.

Fruit. In a week my 3 boys (all under10) will go through 2 punnets of strawberries, 2 punnets of grapes, 1 punnet of blueberries, 1 punnet of raspberries, 1 mango, 4 kiwi fruit, 6 satsumas, 18 apples, 5 plums and 18 bananas. It would be seriously cheaper to fill them up on biscuits!

For those spending alot on fruit do you not have local markets? They tend to have larger sizes and much cheaper strawberries and grapes etc than supermarkets which I think are quite expensive. You can also get 3 cucumbers for a pound.

Meat. The 2 for £7 salmon at Tesco, or around £4 for a chicken or prawns at Sainsburys. Steak can be pricier, more like £6 or even higher for two decent fillets, so we buy it rarely (I don't find British beef delicious enough to splurge on anyway).

Loaf of sourdough for £4 and we get through 3 a week

We are in Germany and I think our biggest expense food wise is squash (as in the drink) - you just can't get it here but neither DS or I drink enough if we try to have just water, and I refuse to lug giant crates of fizzy fruit water. We buy the syrups made for soda stream machines and dilute them, but they are about €3 for a tiny bottle I always go to Asda and buy massive bottles of squash when we visit home.

That or frozen burgers they are about €6 for a bag as well.

Including non food, nappies and dishwasher tablets are the worst.

Most expensive individual item is a large free range chicken from a farm shop for Sunday.
I would go into detail about the number of meals we get from it, but I fear mockery.

@Warmer no local markets near us. There is a fruit farm from around June but it's not easy to get to and is so expensive plus the fruit is only available for about a week or two. I'd have to pay £4.50 for the bus to the fruit farm or the nearest market so it's not any cheaper.

Mrspear thanks for letting me know! I shall be stocking up tomorrow.
Just remembered strawberries! All year throughout the Autumn and Winter months ds was obsessed with strawberries. Would eat them by the punnet if I let him. I worked out that some months I was spending £53 on strawberries as they were out of season! Now they are in abundance, nicer and cheaper. Guess which fruit ds refuses to eat... He now loves watermelon.

Salmon fillets most weeks for dh and I (on the day dc have roast lunch at school).

Prawns. Not every week, but 2-3 times a month. Problem is DD2 could easily demolish the whole 4euro box herself! And they aren't very filling.