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.

True, I just think people who worry about their plastic consuming wouldn't touch a pod machine in the first place. I think they are expensive enough the amount of people buying them as presents for someone they aren't 100% sure wants one must be low.

£30 for 2 steaks ??? Gold plated ??

@IntoValhalla It's very easy to make oat milk from scratch, if you're looking for ways to cut your spend on it. You just need GF oats and a blender. Recipe Here

Fresh fish
Total yoghurt
Coffee beans

Main thing is meat and fish, I only buy organic. I love Drambuie but rarely buy it as its £25 a bottle but Tescos sometimes has it £5 knocked off and I may treat myself. I used to buy Lurpak but now buy the black wrapped French butter with salt crystals from M&S. I would never buy Lurpak Spreadable, its only 64% butter with the remainder rapeseed oil and water and I don't want that on my food. Last thing is Green & Blacks chocolate, especially milk and butterscotch and buy one of each if I'm tempted..

I meant free range re meat, not organic

Posh tonic water. Totally addicted.

MotherWol it’s for my 2 year old, so I prefer to buy the provitamil which is fortified with extra calcium, vitamin B and vitamin D

Steak £3.70 but only my OH eats it so I’m only buying enough for him.

Not weekly but washing powder, and dishwasher tablets bump the shopping bill up.

Fresh fruit and veg for the guineas. We do share it, but I reckon I must spend at least £20 on stuff for them. Some goes to the rabbits too, but they're far cheaper.

Individually, whatever meat I buy for the Sunday roast. Usually a chicken or gammon joint, about £5.

Formula for £8 is the most expensive item. Other than that probably fresh fish.

Butter
Meat for roast dinner
Biscuits

I tend to buy in bulk to last more than a week in case I am away at short notice, I like to be prepared .

This week:
Milk (12 litres) - I had 2 litres in the fridge plus one 2 litre open.
OJ (8 litres)
Fruit
Cheese
Fish
Meat
Tonic water (6 litres)
Soda water (6 litres)
Sparkling water (10 x 2ltr bottles)

When its on offer, wine. I buy a shed full, literally. Also gin when its on offer, I currently have 6 bottles (2 opened and 4 stored) it lasts me ages as I drink a lot of tonic with it.

Boxes of Ella's pouches - specifically the red ones. It's pretty much the only fruit our (asd) 4 year old will eat.

I buy half a dozen granary flat cakes from the bakery once a week, price £2.76. I think that's the most expensive.

Meat and poultry for us is the most expensive things we buy.

We have a roast usually every sunday and the cheapest is a chicken so about £8 and the most expensive would be lamb which is nearly £20,there are 7 of us so everything ends up costing quite a bit.

Oh Lordy you people would have a canary if you lived in Ireland - everything is so much more expensive than the UK 😨

Raw nuts: (almonds and walnuts in particular but also Brazil and cashew nuts) although I try and get them online or from "ethnic" shops.

Bread: I love dark rye sourdough which has a lovely flavour and a chewy texture and makes great toast. Thank goodness I've cut back on bread so it now lasts longer.

Yoghurt: I'm addicted to one in particular which is not cheap and I stick up when in offer as they have a long expiry date.

@happynow091 do you have a lidl nearby? Their cashews / walnuts / almonds are even cheaper than the ethnic shops

MyBlueMoonbeam - is it really? Why is that?

ArchieHarrison
Thanks Archie. Yes I also buy from LIDL. Need to do more if that.

MWNA I bulk buy Ella’s Kitchen smoothies too - the purple ones. My (neurotypical) 8-year-old is slightly better than she was about eating fruit & veg but these are still essential items on my groceries list ...

JuneFromBethesda both of my kids used to be obsessed with Ellas Kithen smoothie pouches. Then I was wandering down the tinned fruit aisle in Asda and I noticed they do Del Monte smoothie pouches with Disney characters on them, which have very similar ingredients to Ellas Kitchen ones but are slightly bigger! They are usually on a multi-but offer too - I got some yesterday and it was 7 for £3

Meat, fish and wine.

Don't eat that much meat anymore, but when we do, we spend more on quality.

Fish is always expensive.

Live very close to a very nice wine shop, which is far too convenient

fruit juice - darn the nice stuff is expensive