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?

Why aren’t you growing your own apricots op? And I hate to tell you about the hidden chemicals in store bought seasoning….

You still forgot the wine woman! (Mind you that’s full of sulphides so you’d have another lecture coming your way about that and the dangers of alcoholism)

About £95-100 ? if you shop at Aldi.

Have I missed the update on the second shop?

Whatever it was, it is not a very good diet of nutrition, and therefore a waste of whatever you paid for it.

Plain Haricot beans, passata, garlic clove, paprika, white pepper. Warm in a pan. Delish. So much nicer than the salty sugary shite I usually buy 🤣 but I can't be arsed to make them most of the time. Beans on toast is supposed to be a minimal effort minimal cleanup tea.

I haven't RTFT. I'm going to say £230. Lots of expensive items, and the smaller ones add up to.

I enjoy these threads so much!

£65 if from Asda

To be fair shop bought cakes really bear no comparison to home made but costs wise, home made wiill always be more expensive.

So far as pig related products, I would only buy free range.

Home made baked beans on the other hand are a complete waste of time and fuel.

Bean there (pun intended) still not as good as Heinz

I’ll put up my hand OP and admit to regularly making my own baked beans. Ex preferred them and we used the glut of tomatoes we had most years. However, that’s a chore that ended with the marriage!

Well I got to £175 but I counted the premium pies as Charlie Bighams which would be about £17 to begin with, so…

Dh makes his own baked beans, spicy Smokey paprika style ones.
im fine with the ones out the tin with the sauce already made 😂

Omg OP.
I haven't RTFT but I'm sure you will have been slaughtered.
I'm sure someone will have already told you that you could have homegrown a chicken & veg & it would have lasted you until Christmas.. :-)

Now that is what you call a Sllllooooowwwww day on MN.

Heinz are the worst 🙈 I really don't like the taste of the sauces on any of them. But it's a cheap easy tea, with lots of nutrients despite the added sugar and salt.

I've made something like that using cannellini beans. Surprisingly easy, though it was from one of those recipe box things.

Is OP still getting a hard time about not rearing her own goats for the cheese, grinding the corn and that sort of thing? 😅

In all seriousness those goat cheese lattice tarts sound very nice.

Without knowing the brands and/or the shop it's hard to tell, I don't buy convenience food either so I've no idea!

It’s mad isn’t it. Only wealthy people have time to muck around making everything from scratch. I find it very privileged.

Mumsnet is mental. Actually gobsmacked at someone berating the op for eating and buying fucking croissants for goodness sake 🤣

Sure is - can't believe I'm top of 'trending' two days running and all I've done is go to the supermarket. Twice.

Fear not, Band of Chums, I am NOT going shopping tomorrow. At all.

Oh, and it was £3.77 in Morrisons today.

What would you call convenience food?

It depends on how much you were able to under scan on the self checkout

I think some ppl missed the OP’s point. It was quite a vague post but there seemed to be a lot of sniping criticism about their food choices. God knows what you’d think of mine. I also love Aldi. I live alone so eat eclectically.

Wow thats a list I can only dream of these days, and thats also more items than I manage to buy a month now!

Based on how we used to live, in another lifetime, and the pricing now, my guess would be somewhere nearer the 200 mark