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?

£20 before the 6th line. But you could shop smarter. E.g.: one big pie is cheaper than 4 small ones, halloumi is £1.80 in lidl and pennies in cornflour, seasonings and oil to make your own...the rest of your list looks very "convenience food"
Don't you do a tally in your head as you go round? My surprises are never more than £2 over or under.

And sorry on the app I didn't catch every update. I understand if convenience foods are necessary for someone who can't cook anymore. I have to buy pre cut frozen veg these days myself.

@JinglingHellsBells

All cancer is thought to be only 5% due to genes, except some types.

Calling bollocks on this statement. Source? Think you’re confusing the fact there are +20k genes in the body and we don’t yet know which mutations (or types of mutation) and combination of, causes all cancers. Just because there is no family history doesn’t mean anything, except it was or wasn’t inheritable.

@takeitandleaveit Not sure how it's patronising to make a statement of fact about what your food consists of.

How is saying there are refined carbs in croissants patronising?

Nothing reduced no, I sometimes go to Morrisons at about 6pm for that. Got a huge bunch of rhubarb for about 10p recently.

@MurderAtTheBeautyPageant 😂

I'd say you got quite a lot for your money there, under £90 isn't bad at all.

Please please ignore any comments to do with food on this bloody forum op.you’ll go away with a fucking eating disorder.
your choices are fine.you don’t need to read every daily mail article and believe that a bacon Earnie will rot out anus out or clobber our colon.
you don’t need judgment on your food.if this was your Riley without the other stuff at home that would be fine too.you can have white carbs! And still be balanced and healthy. Or if you aren’t healthy that’s still no one else business. Please don’t change your food choices based on money. It’s known for its competitive starve yourself on a plate of chicken for a year mantras.this is healthy for your family. Good on you.
also people no what processed means right.that every food you have is processed. Even carrots go through a process to get it to your plate!😮
op you don’t need to give reason for your choices. You came in to comment on good cost.your choices are fine.

It is patronising to assume that I needed to be educated on the matter, yes.

£80 if it was Aldi
or Lidl
150 in the rest of them

Sorry OP didn't realize you have said how much it was but l am really chuffed l wasn't far out 😂

You don't grow your own rice??

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. 🤣🤣🤣

Just because I'm really bored I price checked with Tesco too.
It came to £99.83.

.......so quite a bit dearer and some items were smaller packs: eg, foil only 10m (without buying brand) but cost £1.80 (I added 2 x 10m as closest fit for £3.60) as opposed to Aldi's 30m for £2.69

Dread to think what Ocado or Sainsburys would cost.

@TheNewlmprovedMrsMadEvans Good call.

@justasking111 Don't think it hasn't been considered. 😄

I would have said roughly 140

😅
Thank you !
Tbh l am surprised Tesco was only 18 quid dearer, their prices are terrible.

Has anyone checked Sainsbury's? I'm not volunteering (lazy) just wondered if it had already been done.

I’ve had to start using microwave rice. I’d be dangerous with a pot of boiling water.

Im not so safe with knives, either.

I was gonna say £150 so £80ish is good I think 👍🏻

Quite a few PPs have mentioned putting the shopping list into supermarket apps to see where it is cheaper. Stupid Q, but how does that work? Does one have to input each item individually on a load of apps? That sounds v time consuming. Or can one somehow transfer the whole basket contents in one go? Or is there a comparison app that looks at all the different supermarkets for one? I have already reduced to amount of food I am buying, dropped the brands and the treats, but still need to save some more.

How a simple and perfectly innocent thread about the cost of shopping became such a pile on, I don’t know, but my God people can be snipey. Sneering comments about ‘I wouldn’t know, I don’t buy this sort of thing’, groaning that it’s obviously an ad, or lecturing about diet, it’s just so rude and obnoxious. Is it being online, some kind of personality complex or just people? Awful. OP, looks like a great deal, I hope whoever ate the food enjoyed it. I’m having pizza tonight, bite me.

What an insulting and ignorant comment. You really don't want bowel cancer. It's not the easy option.

The only thing being eaten so far will be some of the new potatoes with this evening's dinner - cajun chicken drumsticks and the proverbial massive salad. Possibly followed by melon. Or gin. 🙂

Scotch pie, chips and vegetables.

I'm a lazy mare this evening 😂😂

What a bonkers thread. I didn't realise Aldi was so cheap. Which is the point of the thread, not the refined carbs the OP is eating.

So it was just a top-up shop?