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How much do you think this was (no cheating)

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I4gotmyname · 18/12/2024 09:35

How much do you think this came to see pic

How much do you think this was (no cheating)
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ElaborateCushion · 18/12/2024 13:58

I4gotmyname · 18/12/2024 10:19

True it was 26.00 club card put it to 19.00

Blimey. It was the turkey I wasn't sure on the estimate and I was quite wrong on it. That said, if I'd got the turkey right I'd have still been £9 out on the clubcard price and £32 out on the pre-clubcard price!

That is a lot.

I'm glad there's only four of us for dinner this year - bought a frozen turkey joint from Aldi for £5.49!

Grammarnut · 18/12/2024 13:59

c.£40.

Grammarnut · 18/12/2024 14:00

ElaborateCushion · 18/12/2024 13:58

Blimey. It was the turkey I wasn't sure on the estimate and I was quite wrong on it. That said, if I'd got the turkey right I'd have still been £9 out on the clubcard price and £32 out on the pre-clubcard price!

That is a lot.

I'm glad there's only four of us for dinner this year - bought a frozen turkey joint from Aldi for £5.49!

So the proper price was £19.00 but you had to pay £26.00 if you don't give the shop your name, and access to your phone!

PandoraSox · 18/12/2024 14:03

In case it helps anyone who mught be on a tight budget, in Sainsbury's today they were selling sprouts, parsnips and potatoes for 15p. Might be a bit early to buy them, but you could par boil and freeze the spuds and parsnips. Sprouts last for ages..

Another2Cats · 18/12/2024 14:03

DreamW3aver · 18/12/2024 10:50

Do Tesco charge different prices in different areas? Discounters aside I don't find Tesco to be more expensive than other supermarkets

What do you mean by overpriced though?

I don't know about different areas but they do in different types of stores.

For example, where I live there is a large store and also a couple of Tesco Express stores. I notice that a loaf of bread is typically 10p more in the Express store than the same loaf of bread in the larger store.

Wine is often also more expensive as well. I haven't noticed other differences but perhaps that just reflects on what I buy there (bread and alcohol!!)

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 18/12/2024 14:04

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This has been withdrawn by MNHQ at the poster's request.

Posters just can’t help themselves, can they

MillyVannily · 18/12/2024 14:04

40-50£

Cattery · 18/12/2024 14:06

backinthebox · 18/12/2024 11:10

Ultra processed food. You could have spent a lot less if you’d not bought all the ready made stuff. Peeling a few spuds and wrapping a bit of bacon round a sausage is hardly arduous, and you’d have less cause to complain about the cost then.

Also, I can’t think of anything worse than a shop bought cheesecake. To make a cheesecake you bash some biscuits, mix them with melted butter, pat them down in a tin or even on a plate, mix some cream cheese with icing sugar and your preferred flavouring, blob in on the top. Done. I like ginger biscuit base and lime flavoured cheese, with either dark chocolate or ginger on top. Best served freshly made, it goes a bit soggy if you leave it too long, but leaving it too long rarely happens round here! Shop bought cheesecake is always soggy, and packed with preservatives. 🤮

I also eat shit at Christmas, but I think my idea of shit is different to the OP’s.

Booo.

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 18/12/2024 14:08

I4gotmyname · 18/12/2024 13:49

I confirm this is a Christmas shop

Phew! In which case, while we’ll leave you tied to the stake, we won’t yet burn you

Petrasings · 18/12/2024 14:12

I4gotmyname · 18/12/2024 12:14

Someone above said i should do better for 2025. I will definitely do that . I have asked for books to teach me about organic growing. Also bee keeping. The home raised turkey seems a bit more complicated. But hopefully someone can help me with that . 🦃

Someone will MOST definitely be along any minute to tell you point by point how to raise turkeys for next year I am certain of it 🤣 even on a postage stamp size garden with marauding dogs!

Next year dear op you will be thanking the enlightened souls of MN for your free range turkeys, your neighbours might not be speaking to you, the garden will NEVER recover but you have been awarded a eco brownie point from the anti UPF club 🏆🏆🏆

Onlyonekenobe · 18/12/2024 14:14

I'm quite chuffed I totted this up to 90 quid in my head! Chuffed because I'm vegetarian, hate cheescake and hate chocolate 😂

natwalesrug · 18/12/2024 14:14

About £100

Fuzzyandwarm · 18/12/2024 14:16

I4gotmyname · 18/12/2024 10:09

The sub total was 95.40... I think that's awful
Club card put it down to 71.95

In my case I have 60.00 in a gift card so personally I only paid 11.00 so I was lucky with that.

I don't know why I'm shocked. Probably because I would shop differently for a standard shop.

I'm doing an aldi shop tomorrow. Will be interesting to see what I can get there.

I feel rather proud of myself I guessed £72 before looking at your answer! Although I suppose that I way off without Clubcard prices but I swear they just inflate prices to bring them down.
Those Cadbury chocolate coins are crazily expensive now, I looked at them then put them back and bought supermarket's own ones!

SavingTheBestTillLast · 18/12/2024 14:17

PandoraSox · 18/12/2024 14:03

In case it helps anyone who mught be on a tight budget, in Sainsbury's today they were selling sprouts, parsnips and potatoes for 15p. Might be a bit early to buy them, but you could par boil and freeze the spuds and parsnips. Sprouts last for ages..

Thanks Pandora
Im off to Sainsburies 👍

LizzieBennetsSister · 18/12/2024 14:20

No idea, but it looks unhealthy. I wouldn't eat it.
And before I'm accused of being a food snob whatever that is - I am concerned with healthy food sustainably produced, ie. good for human health, animal welfare and the environment. No need for processed everything.

I4gotmyname · 18/12/2024 14:21

Fuzzyandwarm · 18/12/2024 14:16

I feel rather proud of myself I guessed £72 before looking at your answer! Although I suppose that I way off without Clubcard prices but I swear they just inflate prices to bring them down.
Those Cadbury chocolate coins are crazily expensive now, I looked at them then put them back and bought supermarket's own ones!

I agree with you . I only got the chocolates coins because I promised gs. I would get them for on the way home from school. And I just went and forgot them ffs 😭

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I4gotmyname · 18/12/2024 14:23

LizzieBennetsSister · 18/12/2024 14:20

No idea, but it looks unhealthy. I wouldn't eat it.
And before I'm accused of being a food snob whatever that is - I am concerned with healthy food sustainably produced, ie. good for human health, animal welfare and the environment. No need for processed everything.

Good job your not eating it then 👍 i am and so are my kids 😋

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Russiandollsaresofullofthemselves · 18/12/2024 14:25

£70

Another2Cats · 18/12/2024 14:27

I4gotmyname · 18/12/2024 12:44

9 I did think that about the turkey. I was thinking about adding a chicken. I still got a few bits to add to the main dinner. I'm going aldi tomorrow morning.

Edit as I was meant to say feeding 9

Edited

But that is a turkey crown, not a whole turkey so you do get a lot more meat on it and less bone. Tesco claims it feeds 10-12 people.

The £19 Tesco turkey crown works out at £6.55 per kg. Aldi do a slightly smaller one at £5.92 per kg so about 10% cheaper than Tesco.

But if you didn't have a clubcard then you would be paying full price at £9.17 per kg so Aldi would be 35% cheaper.

Blogswife · 18/12/2024 14:28

5128gap · 18/12/2024 11:25

You've only yourself to blame OP. If you'd have spent last year turning your garden into an allotment and taking cookery classes, you'd have free organic veg and a home made dessert for 20 that cost nothing but the 'bits you keep in the larder' by now. Then you could have spent your entire budget on one enormous piece of Very High Quality meat. You should also have raised your DC to prefer nuts and tangerines over tins of chocolates. Make 2025 the year you do better!

Edited

That reply was a piss take surely ? Otherwise how sanctimonious can you get ?
You might have the lifestyle that allows you to turn your garden into a bloody allotment but other people are facing challenges that you clearly don’t have.
If it is a piss take then forgive me - it went over my head . If not - stop now with your superior attitude 😡

Fuzzyandwarm · 18/12/2024 14:31

RabbitsEatPancakes · 18/12/2024 10:23

£95

Seems quite cheap for a lot of junk, I'd rather rhave spent it on one piece of quality meat.

5 massive tubs of sweets
2 packS of after eights
2 bags of frozen spuds
40 pigs
4 cheesecakes
3 bags of chocolate coins
1 turkey crown of unknown weight

It's a lot of food.

I am imagining your family sitting watching a Christmas film on Christmas Eve (or attending the local Carol concert before you come on to tell me you don't have a tv) passing round the bowl of raw hunks of meat instead of Celebrations. Delicious and festive...

I4gotmyname · 18/12/2024 14:32

Another2Cats · 18/12/2024 14:27

But that is a turkey crown, not a whole turkey so you do get a lot more meat on it and less bone. Tesco claims it feeds 10-12 people.

The £19 Tesco turkey crown works out at £6.55 per kg. Aldi do a slightly smaller one at £5.92 per kg so about 10% cheaper than Tesco.

But if you didn't have a clubcard then you would be paying full price at £9.17 per kg so Aldi would be 35% cheaper.

I understand the first part about it will feed more. Because there's less bone .

I don't understand the rest of the post at all . Probably because of my dyslexia.

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I4gotmyname · 18/12/2024 14:33

Blogswife · 18/12/2024 14:28

That reply was a piss take surely ? Otherwise how sanctimonious can you get ?
You might have the lifestyle that allows you to turn your garden into a bloody allotment but other people are facing challenges that you clearly don’t have.
If it is a piss take then forgive me - it went over my head . If not - stop now with your superior attitude 😡

They were definitely joking.

OP posts:
Fuzzyandwarm · 18/12/2024 14:34

I4gotmyname · 18/12/2024 14:21

I agree with you . I only got the chocolates coins because I promised gs. I would get them for on the way home from school. And I just went and forgot them ffs 😭

Oh noooo, how frustrating! I was tempted to pay for the Cadbury's ones to be fair but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. Reckon if it was one bag I was buying I would have gone for it 😅

haveagoharry · 18/12/2024 14:34

losingweightandgainingconfidence · 18/12/2024 13:48

@haveagoharry oh please

It's a few days. It's fine.

Did you miss the bit where I specified I wasn't talking about a few days? 🤔

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