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 think that’s an amazing price for all that food. I was thinking it would £120 for lidl/Also and around £160 for Waitrose.

£120 ish PLUScat food as no idea how much that costs !!

Seems very cheap to me. I’m struggling to work out if you feel you got a good deal OP?

I'm not sure if you posted to show this was good value or because you want to save money?

There are so many things on your list here that would taste far nicer if home-made (assuming you have the time) , cost less, and be much healthier.

(Not wearing pearls today by the way!)

I would have expected price to be higher!

Would you know have just taken a picture of the receipt without the prices & uploaded it instead?! All the typing!!

She did say some of the 'convenience' things I bought are for a housebound relative who is unable to cook from scratch any more. So take your judgy pants off.

Wow! I’d mentally added it up with Sainsburys type prices and got to around £140

So.. you buy all this stuff for £80 odd, but then come and say ‘ that doesn’t included fruits and veg I buy from greengrocer, eggs from farmer, bread from bakery…’ so like 80% of your shop isn’t included then?

I did a fabulous shop today. Only cost me £2.50.. haven’t brought meat, fish, fruit, veg or eggs yet but..

God these sanctimonious posts about home made do my head in

For some of us buying a portioned out food means its easy calorie counting and not tempted to eat the whole lot of whats been cooked. Its quite difficult to cook a calorie counted amount of rice because the final volume of it depends on how much water it absorbs and Ive never found it easy to cook very small amounts of rice. I also dont want a freezer full of portions of rice.

Sliced meats? Standard sandwich fillers and lower in calorie than cheese per 100g.

Angel cakes, you'd struggle to make them as small as that without making far far more than you need.

And that assumes they would taste nicer or would be cheaper, I bet some of them wouldnt.

Oh, it’s another advertising type thread for Aldi. At least they’re getting more incentive than the usual ‘I’m going to Aldi for the first time today; what should I buy?’ threads, I guess.

I guess it depends on the quality of the food.

I remember back at uni a lad finding baked beans from Lidl for 7 pence.

Yep, 7p.

He thought it was fantastic value.

Then he tried them and they tasted pretty bad.

I've found when I visit Lidl that brands on offer are a bargain but most of their own stuff is a bit meh.

There's food and then there's really nice food. Which Lidl doesn't seem to sell.

Yes it might be half the price but if your angel cake slices are full of glucose syrup and other crap and your pack of sliced ham is from a factory farm pumping pigs full of antibiotics you may feel like you got a good deal but I'm not sure your body will thank you for it.

it's still an interesting post.

Fuck all if your a shop lifter !

I don't particularly need to save money, I'm just not in the habit of wasting it in Waitrose.

The rice packets were 35p each and I bought them because the adult dc will otherwise waste money on the Ben's ones.

I made my own skin-on wedges yesterday, which is why were were out of spuds.

Frozen green beans are horrid.

I do make my own pies, tarts, cakes and biscuits. In fact the plums are destined for tomorrow's plum crumble. However, with the price of butter and flour just now, it is not more economical to make your own cakes. Anyway, I hardly think that one pack of five little cake bars and a packet of biscuits between four adults for a week is necessarily a bad thing processed food-wise.

Oh, and whoever said a tin of baked beans is processed food - lol.

The stuffing mix is to sprinkle on top of the pork strips when they are slow-roasted next week.

God who cares how much it cost?

Oh, and whoever said a tin of baked beans is processed food - lol.

They are though…

Between £170 and £210 depending on store, amounts of some stuff.

For some people it's all they can afford, when you're on a budget you're generally going for cheap and not best quality

On here is the only place I see people worrying about ham/processed meat/bacon. Everyone I know just eats a bacon barm every so often and carries on

Imagine trying to hide all that in your pockets. 🤣

I'd have guessed at £200 so you did well!

We have a regular delivery from Ocado every Saturday morning. Today's receipt is for ~£180 and there's only 2 of us these days.

(I blame DH for randomly adding stuff we don't need or even really want, like £13.50 for a mouthwash bottle and refill today. 😮)

Wow that's even lower than I expected (and I'm an Aldi shopper). And life is way too short to go making every last thing from scratch so ignore the preachy pearl-clutchers!

Bloody hell. Aldi's cheap! I never shop there. I might start

@PeloAddict people definitely care about processed meats in tbe real world otherwise Finnebrogue wouldn’t get anywhere by advertising their stuff as nitrite free.

Frozen green beans are horrid.

Waitrose frozen fine, whole green beans are delicious. But don't over-cook.

You do have masses of processed food in your trolley (if you are interested!)

It's the croissants, crackers, cakes and biscuits, pre-packed processed meat, (full of nitrates) the pies and quiches, hash browns, cereal bars, and YES the Baked Beans! 😂

I would probably care if I could afford to but it's not in my budget so standard meat it is
But realistically how much standard bacon gets sold vs nitrate free?