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?

I’d love to know what food you buy Jingling, genuinely interested. Do you really never buy any little treats? No condiments? No baked beans?

From Ocado I reckon around £100. Difficult for me to judge without 8 bottles of Prosecco in it.

I made baked beans from scratch recently. The kids liked them even more than tinned and arguably much healthier. But it was a faff and tins are just more convenient.

It was £81 from Aldi. OP said at 12.16 today (page 5 of the thread.)

😂

🤣 a heck of a lot seeing as you chose so many luxury products

Was anything Reduced Op? Not A promotion but reduced due to close to sale by date or damaged packaging for example

If anyone else ever thinks to themselves 'will I try making baked beans from scratch?' pop into your local fishmonger and ask them to gently paddle your face with their biggest trout.

The answer is 42.

Given your dominance on threads about HRT medication - I am guessing that you don’t follow the daft school of thought that the often debilitating symptoms of menopause can be “largely preventative by lifestyle” @JinglingHellsBells

I just joined at 16:20 and was going to guess £74

I'm quite pleased really!

Don't know about that poster, but the only condiments I buy:

• Soy sauce


• Sesame oil


• Oyster sauce


• Worcestershire sauce


• Butter/margarine

Breakfast : Toast with margarine.
Lunch : rice porridge
Dinner : Usually meat, rice/noodles/potatoes and veggies. Batch cooked, or just tossed into the oven if I haven't done it.

We don't buy any sweets etc because Too Good to Go has some fabulous deals for dessert shops near my workplace. It's cheating really I suppose but we get these once every couple of weeks.

You were robbed? That would be £3.50 on TooGoodToGo

That is honestly the most boring and lacking in nutrients diet that I have seen in a long time

Are you cooking that for children / teens?

where is your fruit? The colour? Some avocado, maybe some Greek yoghurt and berries, nuts
basically… flavour

I eat a mix I guess. I don't use jars but I do eat the odd beige meal

No breakfast
Lunch - sandwich of seeded bread and either ham, tuna, egg or cheese. Some pretzels. Banana. Greek Yoghurt. Depends how hungry I am. Occasionally scrambled egg and cheese or a wrap
Tea (if I eat it, I don't always) - anything from chicken dippers to feta salad, omelette, cottage pie, pasta bake, beef stew (last 3 all batch cooked and frozen as live alone)
Eat lots of bananas, apples, salad, strawberries

Weekends I tend to have avocado/feta/tomato toast for lunch because I love it and skip breakfast and tea

I must be really sad and have way too much time on my hands (recovering from surgery so possibly true atm, lol) but I've just tried to do a like for like shop at Asda with the same list and it came to £89.77, which is also not too bad. I had to swap for the closest thing for some items as Asda didn't stock them, and I went down to their normal range for the steak pies. It would've been an extra £2.80, (so a total of £92.57) for their premium range steak pies.

No idea. So many things on that list I don't buy.

£167.50

Do the majority of people really not cook from scratch?

I shouldn't think so. I doubt it's just me anyway 🤣

Sometimes, but I don't have the time or inclination to.

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

No... really?? You must have missed the bit where I said I was stocking up on storecupboard bits then, and not doing an acrual full weekly shop. I know they're not essential. Why should I just buy essentials anyway?

"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"

Gosh. However did I survive to the age I am today without having you around to patronise me?

takeitandleaveit Have you asked your family to guess how much the bill came to?

Reason I ask is that I asked my DH and DD how much the total of my bills came to recently - scone and coffee in M&S, squash, toilet rolls and box cereal - Sainsburys. Filled car up about 5/8ths and bought a stash of stuff from where I work as we had staff double discount week. 20 year old DD (lives abroad) guessed £80. DH admitted he didn't have a clue, but petrol around £60. Petrol was £70 and the whole lot came to £110. I originally went out to get a few items with double discount and used my Sainsburys points😚.

Came back on to see the answer and so happy to see my £82 was so close! It's the small things.....

@JinglingHellsBells is in her late sixties.

Quite honestly - I think many of us will probably my have a somewhat different approach to cooking when we are retired and have only yourself and possibly a partner to cook for.