How much did this little lot cost then?

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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 expect about £170 in Sainsburys

£210 ?

Just before real bad heat wave two of my children had school trips in very hot weather - so I went to Aldi so it would be cheaper and picked up drinks, easy things and eat fruit salad as wanted them to have food with liquids in to help avoid de-hydration and two small new sun tan lotion bottles - expecting it to come between £20 to 30 at worst over £30 it was only just under £40.

Cat food, ham, bleach and washing liquid are "big ticket items"??

I know right....who has the time?!

Totally friends in the shop but I will say £124

And yet I've bought both there. Our local Iceland is a "warehouse" style, so maybe it has a wider range of stock than smaller shops.

*depends not friends!

I dunno but I went in B&M for toiletries. Deodorant, toothpaste, shampoos etc... £38

I nearly died

It's a lot of brands and convenience food.

No it's not. There are only two brands mentioned, Tetley, and Nescafe. They were the only two branded items I bought.

Not much convenience food either, bearing in mind that my freezer already has meat in it, and some of the 'convenience' things I bought are for a housebound relative who is unable to cook from scratch any more.

£145. Roughly what that list would cost me in Asda. But obviously depends on brands etc.

£180 in Waitrose
£120 in Tesco

Can’t be arsed to even read the list.

Tuppence?

Yes. They're more than £2 each. There's also toilet rolls, kitchen paper, more than one type of precooked meat and the olive oil alone could be well over a tenner.

It's a lot of brands and convenience food.

Oh come on op, this is mumsnet. Don't you know you should be able to buy one chicken, some broccoli and one MASSIVE salad and that should feed your family for a month 🤷‍♀️

Anything else is just wasteful. And do you actually eat bananas, so much sugar 🙄

I started counting then stopped when I'd gotten half way and realised how long the list was. Good grief op, I cba to read it never mind type it out!

Forgot to mention the coffee as well.

£138

I count 19 processed/pre made/convenience things. That’s not what this thread is about really but I’m sure it affects the price (if your point is that it was too expensive, you can make these things or find cheaper alternatives)

130

Seriously who the fuck cares? We're all paying too much.

Where was it from and were you buying basics, mid-range or top end ‘finest’ type stuff as that could make a big difference. If in Aldi/Lidl and with offers maybe £120 odd but if in Waitrose/ M&S higher range products could be more like £250.

Lots of meat- I'd say £140

I caught a segment on one of the Radio news programs - they'd started sending a reporter round aldi last few weeks every week it's gone up they though food inflation was running around 9% .

We do big shop once a month - I think we area really going to feel in this next month with three teens all at home.

19? What are they then, because you've lost me.

£77 - 84 at Aldis