I found a shopping reciept from 1996

[KindergartenKop]

Ok, so it's not quite a badly written shopping list but close. So retro! I found it in a book I bought from Amazon.

Interestingly, the date is the day I started my periods!

What were you up to in 1996? What is Mexicorn?

That was pretty much the same day (could have been the day before) i had my first date with my now dh!

I qualified as a nurse...started 1st Nursey role in Margate.

@lu00

I wasn’t even born then!

Why are there school children on MN? It's not the holidays!

I had been divorced for 10 years in 1996.

I feel old!

Oooh I was 19 and also vegetarian and it had been my birthday on the 22nd which was a week day so we went out that weekend instead, with my then boyfriend! We bought our house in December and had been saving up, but splurged on a night out, he bought me some CK Obsession, a nice watch and some chocolates. I was so in love, but he was a bit of a knobber tbh, and we split up shortly after buying the house and I bought him out for £500 😁.

I see you had a cat in 1996, OP.

I assume those are cans of Felix at 48p each. You don't see canned Felix so often these days. Mine only eat dry food but I think Whiskas tins are about 80p nowadays.

Ah beanfeast and Linda McCartney Country Pies, the sign of a 90s vegetarian. By Christ you knew you’d had beanfeast the next day!

I see you had a cat in 1996, OP.

Receipt isn't OP's. She found it in a book.

Why are there school children on MN? It's not the holidays!

One of the teachers I work with was born in 1998. A teacher. A person with a proper grown up job.

@StanfordPines

Ah beanfeast and Linda McCartney Country Pies, the sign of a 90s vegetarian. By Christ you knew you’d had beanfeast the next day!

Yep! I was veggie then and no stranger to Beanfeast and it's aftermath!

Receipt isn't OP's. She found it in a book

Oh, sorry, missed that in my excitement at the receipt.

I’m in my 20s ...

Beanfeast is such a 90’s shopping list item

@wellthatsunusual

I think food is much cheaper now in comparison to income than it was in 1996. I was a student then and I remember a pint of milk being 45p. It's only 50p now almost 25 years later. Same with bread, a loaf cost around 80p and now I can buy a cheap one in Tesco for around the same price or a nicer one for around £1.

You are probably right, but bread and milk are bad things to use as a measurement, because the supermarkets know that nearly everyone buys those things and knows the price of them, so they try extra hard to keep the price of them down. They've almost ruined the dairy farmers in doing so.

We used to take Beanfeasts on Duke of Edinburgh because they didn't weight much for carrying!
I was in early secondary school in 1996, with my giant Umbro backpack!

Mexicorn is sweetcorn with red and green peppers.

@JonHammIsMyJamm

Beanfeast is such a 90’s shopping list item

I lived on those as a student. See also Vesta curry with the noodles to deep fry and use as a 'garnish' and soya TVP that you had to soak in water.

I had my first baby in September 1996 so chances are very high I was breastfeeding while they were buying their shopping

I think @CountFosco’s ‘school children’ post was a tongue in cheek joke in a ‘how can it be 24yrs since 1996?!!/Where does the time go?’ kinda way.

I was 7 months pregnant, living in our first flat. Can you even get SEEDED grapes anymore??

Ooo yeah, Vesta chicken supreme was a favourite of mine 😆

soya TVP that you had to soak in water.

Oh my that was gross stuff!

@AndIquote I buy fig rolls every week-my favourite!

@KindergartenKop in 1996 I started uni in central London. I thought I was so cool, living in a flat opposite Madame Tussaurds

Rich Tea biscuits. Unfathomable that anyone would pay 1p let alone 41p!

@KindergartenKop

What's Wivenhoe like? I've never been.

Picturesque but sleepy little place. The marina is really pretty, and there are some lovely B&Bs.