How much did this little lot cost then?

[takeitandleaveit]

Interested to know how much you think I paid for my shopping this morning, because I was in for a surprise when I got to the till...

4x premium individual steak & ale pies
Halloumi fries
2x Goats cheese lattice tarts
Frozen skin-on fries
Mini hash browns
240x Tetley tea bags
2x tissue cubes
1 each of tinned toms, kidney beans, mushy peas, baked beans
2x bleach
liquid soap
Swing bin liners
4x flat tins cat food
box 12x cat food pouches
cat treats
Large jar Nescafe
2x washing up liquid
kitchen foil
olive oil
savoy cabbage
large bag red potatoes
small bag new potatoes
honeydew melon
4x lemons
3x peppers
bag conference pears
cherry toms on vine
2x sweet gem lettuce
pack fine green beans
punnet plums
bag rocket
cucumber
6x organic bananas
3x microwaveable rice pouches
2x packs pork belly slices
streaky bacon
2x salted butter
small wensleydale
small gruyere
pack sliced ham
pack sliced chicken
pack sliced pork loin
stuffing mix
ibuprofen
napkins
angel cake slices
cereal bars
8x croissants
cream crackers
Viennese biscuits
9x toilet rolls
3x kitchen rolls

What do you reckon?

Are you serious that dementia is lafrgely preventable by lifestyle?

What's the evidence? Both my DM and DMiL have/had dementia and very different lives. One lived in the countryside, was reclusive and physically very inactive and overweight. The other lived in a city centre and was very active, skinny and led an extremely busy life with lots of socialising and learning new skills as she grew old. Both ate healthy food, home cooked from scratch.

If both these lifestyles lead to dementia how should I live to prevent it happening?

Around £80 and you got it from Aldi.

That’s a good price.
That little lot would cost a lot more in other supermarkets.

I was going to guess £76.00, so not too far out. I don't even know how much milk costs though, so possibly random.

£220

Wow OP I originally thought around £160/70 and then when I saw from Aldi I thought oh maybe about £120/30, that is amazing you got all that for around £80!

I am amazed at the amount of people coming on to lecture you about your shopping-

How very dare you buy different things to other people!!

I love shopping and food threads - always gives me some good inspiration, I get in food ruts far too often.

£81 is a really price for all that lot. I'd have guessed £115 - even from the Aldi!

Ignore the snarky pearl clutching comments about soooooo much processed and convenience foods @takeitandleaveit You always get that shit on mumsnet from some posters. Food snobs! They're the same individuals who look down their nose at people who like 'popular' and 'mainstream' stuff, like current chart music, Love Island, Coronation Street etc etc, and claim they don't even have a TV! Such irksome individuals!

🙄 Grip those pearls now!!! Real tight!

Well, either you use basic raw ingredients and bake your own croissants and bread, make your own fresh pasta, mayonnaise, tomato ketchup, lemonade, yoghurt, jams, mango chutney, churn your own butter, whip up your own granola, gather elderberries from the hedgerows and make your own wine... or you don't.

My kitchen isn't big enough for such things as a bread maker, pasta machine, preserving pans or carboys, let alone storage space for the results, so I let the experts do it.

Assuming Aldi (as they have the goat's cheese lattice things for £1,59), and rounding up just for the convenience when adding up, I'd estimate it at around £90, give or take a fiver each side depending on which cold cuts/bacon, etc, you went for, etc...so for cheaper cuts around £85 and about £95 max for the more expensive cuts/bacon and luxury toilet paper/kitchen roll.

I would assume that because you've not said otherwise, that you've bought their standard range as you've said premium for some items, in which case it would be closer to the £85-£90 figure.

I don't cook from scratch or cook much at all come to that, there are only 2 of us and we generally buy desserts from the bakery or at a push M&S and they are better than anything I could knock together. We often get those Charlie Bigham type meals as they are quite easy.

Op, even if you had the time, space and inclination it would cost a lot more in ingredients and energy than it would to buy items such as you have bought.

@JinglingHellsBells, many cases of dementia are not caused by lifestyle. I know several whose lifestyles were perfectly healthy, who still succumbed. My FiL was never overweight, hardly drank, never smoked, was cycling and playing tennis into his late 70s - and he still got it.

I have virtually gone NC with an aunt who told me it was my DM’s own fault that she got dementia - IMO it’s a very cruel thing to say. And in her case, both ignorant and prejudiced.

In any case, the likelihood increases a good deal with age. My DM only showed the first signs in her early 80s and went on to 97 - which she would never have done if she hadn’t otherwise enjoyed very good health.

You're not wrong there. I don't think I will ever feel the inclination to make my own cream crackers.

It’s for 4 adults including packed lunches to take to work.

she’s not eating it on her own.

Wow that's a very detailed list. There's obviously a large difference between churning your own butter and an M&S ready meal.
'Processed food' is really a misnomer, as according to the official definition anything washed and chopped is processed.

It's 'ultra-processed' food that we want to be fussed about.
www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/what-processed-food.

Yes, @NanaNelly I can read! I know it's for 4 people. That doesn't change the type of food, though.

What a pointless thread, so what if she bought some processed food? Typical snobbery on here.

Frozen green beans are horrid.

Amen.

It has been known for us to have other sandwich fillings.

Why is it irksome if people don’t have a tv? We don’t have a tv aerial so got rid of the tv when we moved here as we couldn’t be bothered sorting an aerial out.

@takeitandleaveit But one point you are missing is that it's not a case of making it yourself or buying it. You have a choice not to eat some of those things on your list at all!

Playing devil's advocate, croissants are not essential items. So no one has to eat one whether it's made at home, or bought. They are white flour and lots of fat.

In fact many of the things you listed are not 'foods' but condiments, and non-essentials.

It's more about regularly eating highly processed foods like reformed meat (many cold meats - even the best have added dextrose- a manufactured sugar) - and often nitrites.

Most pastry in pies etc contains palm oil which can be very bad for the environment unless sustainably produced.

I'm sure that on balance you have a reasonably healthy diet but your list does include a lot of white, refined carbs, hidden sugars, preservatives, and possibly unhealthy fats.

Be careful getting down of that high horse.

why didn’t you take a photo of the receipt and post that with amounts covered? Or were you at a completely loose end??

I’m the least domestic person ever and I rarely cook but I did once make my own baked beans using this recipe:

www.100daysofrealfood.com/recipe-slow-cooker-baked-beans/

They were totally delicious!!