My shopping is £500 this week 😩

[tulipsrus]

My mother gave me her shopping list, Jesus they’ve got expensive taste
Crab
Prawns
Sea bass
Salmon
All sorts of vegetables, herbs
Soya beans lentils

Can get all those items in Aldi for under £20!

Actually, joking apart, it's probably good that someone still wants this stuff. I read an article yesterday about the Scottish fishing communities being in dire straits and food bank use in those areas hugely increased, partly because the fish and in particular the luxury seafood market has collapsed.

I think you should ask your mother to pick more "essential" things.

She'll surely survive without crab

Sorry. I'm not helpful.

Do some Tesco substitutions and tell them the shops shelf were empty.

Crab - Felix cat food
Prawns - Skips prawn cocktail crisps
Sea bass - Sea Salt
Salmon - Jar of salmon paste

Seriously though, is the problem you don't think they will pay?

My mum owes me about £100 for hers so far. Don't want to bother her with cash right now. She is too old to transfer electronically and I cant get close!

At least lentils are cheap!

Why are you paying? Get the money first or say no.

Maybe OP is buying an actual Fridge/Freezer too , to put it in......

Five HUNDRED BRITISH POUNDS???

are you shopping at F&M or something??

Sounds a pretty normal shopping list, perhaps for a non-meat eater. Where's the £480 going?

Take a zero off and that's our weekly food allowance

Waitrose fish and meat counters are still open.

Have to laugh at ‘all sorts of vegetables’. Do you not buy vegetables yourself?

Lentils are super cheap.

I bought a bag of large prawns this week for £7:95 and sea bass from M&S is no more than £6 and sometimes less. Salmon is £4 -5.

It must have been a long list!

how many kilos are you buying?

That's part of a normal shopping list, which for an average size family like mine nowhere near reaches £500!

I don’t understand. If no one buys anything except beans and pasta then the entire food system is fucked and we won’t be able to buy anything except beans and pasta. It’s your mam’s civic duty to buy and eat whatever food she wants, can pay for, and is freely available in the shops.
Why on earth would we want to force food shortages and make people fight to the death for the last bag of noname pasta just in some sort of weird virtue signalling performance?
I bloody hope that anyone who can happily afford $500 a week on groceries continues to put out to keep as many businesses afloat as they can. Otherwise even more people are economically fucked.
Mean spirited and counter-productive.

You can buy it all online from Fish for thought or the Fish Society. They’ll deliver.

*Crab
**Prawns
Sea bass
Salmon
All sorts of vegetables, herbs
*Soya beans lentils

I don't get it. Which one is costing hundreds of pounds?

How are you getting to £500 @tulipsrus ?

biscuits I am with you 100%.

I'm not surprised. We managed to hit £350 last week, including a few bits for neighbours. Managed to get some seabass too. Everything is full price, most of the usual offers are not there.

I'm curious how you've spent 500quid

I always manage to get prawns, salmon and sea bass reduced in Morrisons. Makes a lovely fish pie for the toddler

Receipt or it didn't happen

I find it’s the ‘all sorts of vegetables’ that does it

Prawns, salmon & all sorts of vegetables aren't that expensive are they?

Maybe not standard weekly fare for everyone, but surely not needing to be in the top income bracket either?