My shopping is £500 this week 😩

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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

If they can afford it, there’s nothing wrong with it. Not everyone wants to eat Aldi basics.

I always wonder who buys the fancy crab in Waitrose. I but naive stuff but never think to buy that. Turns out, like you, it is DM OP! She has it on a rocket and avocado salad with brown bread and butter. Yummy!

She has been on self imposed lock down for much longer than we were ordered to. If she asked, I'd get edible gold leaf to put on her Weatabix.

Buy naice

That’s what I spend on groceries for a month. I hope your DM will pay for her groceries on the order OP

My Ocado order for this week is £280 and that's for 3 of us plus pets. My parents haven't given me their list yet.

@Seriouslyastounded
There's nothing wring with it.

It's just HOW do you spend £500 on food?? How?

I’ve ordered lush meat from a butcher including filet steaks and I got and ordered of swordfish prawns snapper from a fishmonger why should we all live on freakin beans on toast sorry but my husband isn’t out there stuck at sea for us to not have nice grub and it’s costing us more so I’m putting back into the economy and I’m not claiming shit from the gov or bank but I want my luxuries in fact ordered a lobster takeaway from our local restaurant on Saturday don’t do crap food not worth the calories I’m stuck at home that’s enough right now

Mine was not far off. I blame the one way system, my other half seemed to have felt obliged pick things from EVERY isle 🙈

Considering we're all stuck indoors worrying about coronavirus... Why not eat nice food if you can afford it. No point being miserable

I dont spend that a month. Blimey

Have to laugh at mumsnet! OP was simply making an observation that her shopping was £500, obviously a lot for a food shop, but clearly goes onto explain the reason why... were being rude and there was no need! it’s time to have a laugh and be kind surely..?
I completely agree OP, our shop last week was £165 and was a bit but then reasoned I have 2 kids at home who usually eat at school plus three adults, we aren’t popping to shops for bread milk lunches out etc, also got all Easter eggs, toiletries booze within that, so felt less extortionate!
Friends have commented the same that they are spending way more.
Love that your mum is still taking her cooking seriously, good for her, why do we love suddenly need to eat pasta and beans!

My weekly shop (for 5 of us - all meals and also includes nappies and wipes) is an eye watering £210 this week.

We probably spend on average between £120-£150 a week as we're not at all frugal, buy lots fresh throughout the week and use several different supermarkets, but the difference in cost is staggering.

Not many special offers at the moment?

Sorry, do you live inland? Our fish stalls are still open when I walked the dog,
Frozen would probably be fresher than "fresh" fish if you live inland anyway plus I am pretty sure you can get frozen crab, lobster etc not sure if shell fish textures are different when frozen as massive shell fish allergy.

We spent 170 on a food shop delivery this week and other than sausages no meat, no alcohol, very little veg, (BN squash, cabbage, carrots and tomatoes) only fruit was 4 apples and a punnet of grapes every thing else out of stock no bread for my son no GF pasta or flour , no cleaning stuff only thing in abundance that wasn't out of stock was the copious amounts of chocolate that crept into the order bit by bit and 3 Easter eggs so god knows how it was 170.... I find that food is more expensive atm to stop people stock piling and this will last us a few weeks although we need peppers,bread and fruit, veg quite quickly so will have to put ourselves at risk sadly (at risk group)

And I thought my shopping bill was expensive! Our Asda click n collect came to approx £90 (already had a fruit and veg delivery. A few bits for the in laws brought it to £110. Phoned my parents to ask did they need anything. 3 bottles of vodka, 3 bottles of wine a huge multi pack of Stella later (the fresh mackerel was out of stock) and it ended up coming to £220.

Soubriquet
‘More fool you’ I’d give my parents anything. They have me every penny they had when I was you.

@Den1se, quite an exaggeration there.

No, they just eat well

I have never cooked so many meals from scratch since lock down. It's something I have more time for and enjoy trying to make lovely and healthy meals. ,Normally I' m too tired to bother, and will make do with the usual quick fail Safe's , pasta and baked potatoes etc. Also think it's more important than ever to eat well for our immune systems, and give us joy if we are getting down hearted. This is why, at the end of a long and anxious shift, those restaurants that are donating beautifully cooked meals for our NHS staff are so much appreciated and enjoyed.
The food is still there, as someone has already said, we should limit the times we go shopping, but not necessarily limit the items we buy, and if you can buy avocados and dressed crab, if your budget allows, why the hell not.

@TheChosenTwo I completely agree. I don’t know why people are moaning about anything other than beans or pasta not being essentials. I’ve been buying what I would usually buy when I can get it. We can’t leave the house, go on holiday, children can’t go to school surely one thing we can do is eat as we like. I’m sick of the constant judging of every movement and decision at the moment.

den1se- that’s very mean
They are very unselfish and eat quite sparingly, especially my Dad

This weeks list is even more specific, she’s been online and found some tasty looking stuff and it includes 6 bottles of wine!and bird food!

If they can afford it & they're paying you back, I can't see the issue. Live and let live is what I say. I can imagine the shock at the online checkout though!

Lockdown is hard for people. If you can pass time planning and cooking enjoyable meals, then it’s surely a good thing?
Fish for Thought are better quality and cheaper than Waitrose. Get them to order online; there’s lots of interesting fish and their dressed crab is exceptional.