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 agree that it would be better value, yes. I wanted a pie for 4 and they didn't have any, so I bought 2 packs of 2 instead. Which has worked out fine, as we don't always eat together due to work hours anyway.

This shop was not representative of a weekly meal plan, or of our diet in general, so you can rest easy. It was partly a store-cupboard stock-up and much of it won't be used for weeks.

By the way, I only bought green beans and a savoy cabbage because we already had mange tout, onions, carrots, parsnips, leeks and a white cabbage, and we have rosemary, basil, chives, sage and mint growing in the garden. We also already had apples and oranges, hence only buying the lemons, bananas, pears, plums and melon.

OP as an Asian I abhor anybody buying microwave rice! Or uncle ben’s or any of that rubbish. You can buy a lovely 5/10/15 KG bag of pure basmati online and it’s sooo gooood and lasts much longer
*lighthearted of course

I would have guessed about right, maybe closer to £100.

It’s very similar to my shopping, except I don’t buy cat food, pies or microwaveable rice, and I buy one bottle of wine and much more frozen skin on fries (I recommend sweet potato, much nicer than plain) than you do.

Aldi is fantastic. I can’t believe people thought £150+

From the Soil Association

www.soilassociation.org/media/23032/ultra-processed-planet-final.pdf

^Ultra-processed foods also contain ingredients unfamiliar to
domestic kitchens , such as soy protein isolates. Colourings, emulsifiers, flavourings and other additives are added to make the products better-looking, tastier and longer lasting^.

They can also be extremely moreish – or “hyperpalatable”. Foods in this group include most shop-bought snacks, biscuits and cakes, mass-produced bread and breakfast cereals, reconstituted meat products, mass produced desserts, infant formula and some baby foods, yogurts inclusive of sweeteners and artificial colourings, and many ready meals.

I know they are.

Hands up all those who have ever made their own baked beans.

Seen your update of what else you have a t home :)

Aldi angel cake
Sponge (88%) [Sugar, 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐫 (𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐫, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Pasteurised 𝐄𝐠𝐠 White, Vegetable Oils (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil), Humectant: Glycerol; Raising Agents: Diphosphates, Sodium Carbonates; Preservative: 𝐏𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 Sorbate; Emulsifier: Mono- And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids; Colours: Carotenes Carmines], Vanilla Flavour Filling (12%) (Sugar, Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Glucose Syrup, Rice Starch, Emulsifier: Mono- And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids; Flavouring).

Sorry But that is rubbish processed ingredients. Whilst I couldn’t make an angel cake from scratch quickly or cheaper, I would just make something else or eat a banana.

scones I made for friends visiting today - flour, egg, butter, sugar, baking powder. Batch of 10, cost about £1, and take 10 mins.

I make it c. £170, but there's a lot of luxury there. A budget shop it is not.

Actual real Nescafe £4.49.

No one cares though?! 🤷🏻‍♀️

Reasonable, and I shop at Aldi!
The cat food threw me along with the meat, because I don't buy either.

OP, IF you're looking to reduce further then my suggestion of reducing meat still stands. You can reduce the amount you have in sandwiches.

Saying that though, I think that's a very reasonable price considering the meat.

@Caspianberg yes but you can't buy butter and flour etc etc for £1. So if you have only £1 and you want cake, you're buying the processed ones
If you have time and money to buy in bulk, it's easier to eat better

Are you going to tell us the point of the thread? Were you pleased or horrified by the cost? What did you think it was going to cost?

That is cheap for all that but I would be really interested to know if the quality is same as Waitrose/better?

Well I never said it was a weekly food shop, did I?

My mil and fil have just started shopping at Aldi - they say they like it so far

£120 in ALdi/Lidl. £140 if Tesco/Asda

I was going to ask where all the booze is but I see I have been beaten to it.

as soon as I saw the list I could have bet my very own shopping trolley worth of food that it would become a thread of “gosh, look at all the money wasted on stuff you could fashion from thin air at home!”

I am impressed with the cost of that shop. I had it at about £130 in my head. We tend to shop across all the supermarkets to pick up things which we prefer (and we live in some sort of weird supermarket Mecca where we have them all within three miles)

this thread is surely not that far away from the old days of MN where people would find lists in trolleys and post them for us all to guess what sort of person was buying those items and what they were buying for.

My money is on… she’s been paid by Aldi to do it. These kind of threads are always about how amazing Aldi is.

You’d think you’d see similar numbers of threads about Lidl, or noticeable numbers of them anyway, but you don’t. MN is always awash with extremely loyal and evangelical Aldi shoppers.

All these comments about how terrible it is that she doesn't make her own croissants or baked beans, ought to be rearing a pig in the garden for ham etc are so funny.

So many people on this website live in fantasyland.

Although I am very much amused by the way the responses have developed into analysing the levels of processed food involved. 🤣

I think they're point is she got a decent trolley full for less than they were expecting to pay. They weren't just shopping for themselves but a housebound family member who isn't able to cook from scratch.

I think it all depends on the Aldi or Lidl you go to.

we had one of each on the same trading estate and whilst Lidl fruit and vegetables were excellent Aldi was dreadful. But then Vegan stuff was good in Aldi but not great in Lidl
I do prefer Lidl for fruit and veg and the majority of my shop but pop in because Ds likes their vegan pizzas and other vegan stuff they do.
Lidl have amazing large jars of olives and the jar is really nice to put other food items in after. If you can get the lid off without skewering it to break the vacuum.

I don’t buy meat, fish, cakes, biscuits or anything that has pastry
I don’t personally eat beans but others do and they don’t seem to mind them.

We are a family of 4 adults. Dh buys his own meat stuff as he is the sole meat eater in the house but everything else I buy.
I add up each month how much I spend on food shopping and it is around £350 per month and if it edges towards that amount it is because I have just filled the cupboards.

Mostly I bulk buy certain stuff at the beginning of the year. Eg cat litter which is the non branded sifting sort and comes in large plastic bags from a horsey place and gets stacked in the garage, under the stairs and where ever we can put 30 large sacks of pellets.
January is a very full house

Sorry But that is rubbish processed ingredients. Whilst I couldn’t make an angel cake from scratch quickly or cheaper, I would just make something else or eat a banana.

Repent, ye OP! Buying factory made cakes like some kind of debauched wastrel.

FOR SHAME.