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?

You know potatoes grow in the ground? And lots of people grow them? It's not a shock that some people just might pick their potatoes out of the ground!!!!

You typed all that out, Christus bikus. This place is getting odder and odder.

£125

I count 19 processed/pre made/convenience things.

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

Come on OP, you are just being lazy by not synthesising your own Ibuprofen. Home made is much nicer than store bought.

Surely that's because of what your family buy? If yours grans has only gone up £7-8 and yours has doubled, look at what you're buying!

We spend £300-350 at Asda every month bulk of it food but also household things that's 2 adults and 3 teens.

Plain flour and toilet roll are bulk items from Amazon - and there's often top up of cat litter and occasionally cat food from on-line shops but not every month.

There are top ups especially towards end of month from Aldi and Small Tesco but we try and avoid these.

So it's roughly about £100 a week currently.

Crikey OP, is that how you get your kicks😀 You need to get out a bit more!

Quite the opposite.
The only buy basics, like me, so have no idea how much things like 'premium steak and ale pies' cost...

£240.

Buy some washable cloths next time so you don’t have to keep buying kitchen roll

Shopping has gone up but not evenly so I suppose it's hard to guess other peoples baskets. We are spending around £120 for 4 adults and that includes 4 Gousto meals and lunches as we take sandwiches.

AH OSRRY OP!
somehow misse dyour last update
sorry people

We’re you surprised at how much it cost or were you expecting it to be more?

Where? Because I've counted up several times and can't get it past 15, even with counting the 4 pies individually.

Is this at Aldi / lidl? I reckon around £150 at Aldi / Lidl.

@Movinghouseatlast of course
but most of us don't have time for that.

Bargain! I think I might swap to Aldi!

Whatever the price, how can you say there’s only 2 things processed on that list? When it includes things like pre made pies, some lattice thing, angel cake and microwave rice packets.

Sure a frozen pie might only cost £2. And that’s ok if your on a tight budget. But don’t pretend people spend ‘silly amounts’ because they buy all the fresh ingredients to make a pie. It’s two different things.

Depends on whether some of the products are premium or not. I'd have has as many shop brand as possible, so hopefully not more than £120, but I guess otherwise up to £150.

I guess that's not a week's shop as no milk, cereal or bread products. Being noisy, how long will it last and how many in family? Either way, enjoy.

Are you not able to use the see all function?

I can do you some home-made aspirin if you like!

It was less than I would have predicted, but I do mostly shop at Waitrose. Maybe I should look elsewhere. In terms of too processed / over priced crap - below are the worst offenders imo. But we all do it for certain items!

4x premium individual steak & ale pies
Halloumi fries
2x Goats cheese lattice tarts
Frozen skin-on fries
Mini hash browns
3x microwaveable rice pouches
pack sliced ham
pack sliced chicken
pack sliced pork loin
stuffing mix
angel cake slices
cereal bars
Viennese biscuits

Just seen your update that's a really good price @takeitandleaveit

Can I ask what sort of meals you are making. It seems similar to an Aldi shop when I go minus the cat stuff but I come home and realise I haven't got any actual meals it's all bits and bobs admittedly stuff we will use of course. Maybe I'm just bad at meal planning!

No - not 2 processed. 2 branded.

£128