What is your most expensive weekly food purchase

[bluebananababe]

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.

Oh yes and berries. Trying to convince my 3dc that frozen berries or apples are great isn't working!

@BlackPrism here is a page of articles from The Ferret, there's also a BBC Panorama programme on iPlayer which I'm going to watch tonight... it's a dirty, cruel industry which is having a massive impact on Scotland's water and other fish stock. I haven't bought salmon for six months.

link to the Ferret page

Obviously you can also read lots of 'industry spokespeople saying they are proud of their record' but it's all bull.

Soz for derail!

Salmon every week
President butter
Ready chopped veg from M&S not every week but I have some health issues so if I’m having a bad week I just don’t have the energy to chop my own carrots.

I don’t want to be tht person- but do people not think about the environment when they buy out of season stuff? The destruction of land, the air miles, the water....

I buy British when possible but we don't grow mango and bananas here. Strawberries, raspberries and apples are grown here and I will choose British over imported if there is a choice. I don't eat meat or fish, don't drive, don't fly, don't eat take aways more than about 3/4 times a year, so my carbon footprint is quite low compared to those who do do all the above.

@calpoppincalpol We used to get bread and pasta on prescription, but our local CCG, along with many others in the country, decided to discontinue these about 4 years ago unfortunately. Obviously the range of free from food in the supermarkets has increased exponentially in recent years, for which we are very grateful but the price hasn't decreased at all - £1.20 for a 500g bag of pasta and £3 for a loaf of bread (that has much fewer slices than a standard loaf) for example.

Brazil nuts
Fage Greek youghurt
Blueberries, raspberries and cherries
Rib eye steak.
Regina Blitz.
Organic French sea salt butter.
I need to try chocolate florentines.

Bertrand... nope.

My ancient cats special diet. She is on prescription biscuits and organic wet cat food which is the only one she can tolerate without having diarrhoea.
I have to shop at the pound store after shelling out for that lot. But babes is worth it

Blueberries ( my dd absolutely loves them )
She'd eat a punnet a day if she could
I don't let her as it gives her a bad tummy but we go through a lot with her

Coffee pod machines are the worst invention of the 21st century.
So wasteful of resources. One cappuccino can cost 60/80p and you’re left with a muddy mess of bonded plastic and foil which can’t be recycled properly.
I was given a Dolce Gusto and, while it was useful on our building project for the occasional (clean and fuss-free) cup, I would NOT use it every day when a normal pack of ground coffee costs £3 and you can get a hundred cups from it with a mocha or basic electric machine.

Wake up folks, or at least get some refillable pod shells!

refillable pods

Rant over.
Apart from meat and alcohol which are expensive or highly taxed for a reason, my most expensive food is Brazil nuts at about £3 per 100g.

good decaf coffee from Waitrose. The Peruvian Waitrose 1 kind. I get through a bag and a half a week, they are £3.50 ish each.

Nobody who buys a pod machine is likely to entertain the concept of refillable pods, are they? The entire point of a pod machine is that it's convenient without having to think too much about it. If you're arsing about refilling pods you might as well use a percolator in the first place.

(I don't have one. But it winds me up seeing people go on about refillable pods, spectacularly missing the point.)

Cheese!

Washing powder! (Normally buy in bulk from macro but haven't had time to get there and had to buy a small box from Tesco. £££!)

black prism absolutely agree about chicken thighs. I can’t stand them, they are fatty and slimy. Plus I think there is much actual chicken meat that comes off when you compare it to the breast piece.

Also markets for fruit, I pass by a few and they are very hit and miss. You might get a big bowl of strawberries/blueberries for example for £1 but guaranteed half will be mouldy or on their last legs - it’s a waste then. Atleast when I get fruit from the supermarket it lasts.

Most expensive things for me:
meat and fruit

BertieBotts I think pod machines are a bit like home printers; the machine isn’t expensive to buy initially but the consumables are where the company makes its money.
We’re mostly talking the Nestlé company here. Not known for its environmental policy...

So a nicely designed machine, maybe given as a well-intentioned Christmas present as in our case, turns out to be an environmental liability. At least refillable pods go a step towards redressing that liability. At €1 each I think it’s worth the faff occasionally!

Agree about free from foods. GF bread is much smaller, has fewer slices and costs 3x the price! To offset it the rest of us eat value brown bread at 36p a loaf, it's not great but better than the value white stuff. Other than expensive free from foods our biggest spends are pg tips, cat food, peas for the chickens (they get through bags of them) and large joints of meat. However those joints are used for several meals so it evens out.

Oh God definitely booze 😂

And Cheeky Panda toilet roll. £5 something for 9 rolls and we need 3 packs a month. But it's lovely.

Tinned tuna. DH eats a lot every day.

Fruit. Strawberries in summer in particular.

Fage Yoghurt.

For those spending alot on fruit do you not have local markets? They tend to have larger sizes
Unfortunately my kids and giant bananas/ apples don't mix, they'll always leave half. The small ones are perfect, just a pity they only come in non recyclable bags

Wine followed by apples, 6 of us eat at least one a day!

Fruit here too. I have to drive past 3 supermarkets to get to the nearest fruit market, so I don’t bother. I would love to use the local greengrocer for fruit and veg, but the quality is terrible. I threw away too many rotten bag fulls of veg ( after buying it the day before) and suffered too many cotton wooly satsumas before giving up on it.

I do have an excellent local butcher though, so all meat is bought there, I use my own packing boxes so very little waste.

£5.50! A loaf!! Wtf