AIBU - Aldi: How much should this have cost...?

[GingerWit]

I'm not sure if I should be shocked or I should have realised everything will cost more due to cost of living situation etc and I need to suck it up.

However, Mumsnetter's!

How much do you think the following should have cost?

Small tray of beef pieces
Jar of mango chutney
2 onions
Bag of wonky peppers
3 packets of microwave rice
Small, plastic container
Cheap drinks bottle
Tin of mixed fruits
2 Naan Bread's
Garlic bread
Small tray of Indian bits (bhaji and samosa x2)
Flour
Sugar

One bag of shopping from Aldi. This is also a bit of fun/tongue-in-cheek to help me get over handing over the money when it came time to pay and my daughter needed to unfurl my iron-like grip from my card and put it in the card machine for me while I stood there wondering when are my kids gonna get a job at the ages of 8,9, and 14 and buy me food instead and leave my money alone.

Alas, here I am! So...how much!? Have a guess!

(I didn't get a receipt. Daughter was too busy guiding me out of the store through my veil of tears and catatonic state. I might actually just be a tight-wod!?) Hubby works full-time, I work full-time.

Anyway!

How much!?

(Stffu, Aldi! Stffuuuuuu! hisses)

£32-£35

If I had literally nothing better to do, I’d look it all up on their website, but…. Nah. CBA. So: £34.67.

Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

£45 - Spot on!

I'm asking because I was just a bit shocked that so very little can be so very much.

Container and bottle came to about £6. I suppose that boosted it up.

I had already paid £174 online for a click&collect from Aldi, thinking it would be cheaper. When I got there and realised I had missed those bits we needed...£219. This shop will last 3 weeks for the 5 of us.

I suppose it just always surprises me when prices in cheapish places continue to rocket. When we first started out in life I remember £45 would get us 2-3 bags of shopping.

I do like to shop and around, and I normally add up as I go along and try to stick to online shopping (I find this easier for budgeting.) It also got me thinking about families who are really struggling, even more than we are. If one bag cost £45 (lunch box and bottle to replace DD's worn down and broken one) - How are those families going to feed themselves!?

I will say I work with people from really poor backgrounds and I'm also a studying Social Scientist; I question everything. Mostly I just really feel for everyone skipping meals or not eating at all right now. 😕

(That's 2 bags of onions for the pedants)

Well, we've answered you, and you now have half an hour of figures, so I think you've dragged it out long enough.

£32 with update

Cross post. 45 quid! Ye gods.

How much each for the microwave rice packets? You’re paying for the convenience, far better to buy a bag of rice to cook yourself.

Well to be fair the stuff you bought would not have been cheap in most places beef is expensive would have cost you more in asda

Oh wow! I was going for £25, plus your additions £30. £45 does seem a lot.

The OP was typing a response.

My sincere apologies.

I haven’t lived in the UK for years, and Aldi came to where I live about 4-5 years ago. Or they came before but I didn’t realise!

Anyway, I keep being told that the UK is expensive so I’ll say £50!

£30

I’d have said £27 with the update but now read it was £45. Bloody hell I know prices have gone up recently but that seems loads for Aldi.

Refer to my response above your comment.

I’d have been shocked too, in Aldi.

£30

Wow I was going to say £25!

£45 is a lot.

Did you buy branded stuff? I don't shop there much but I've noticed branded stuff is always v expensive in Aldi/Lidl

The only thing I'll be advertising for Aldi from now on is, "Stealing from Aldi is cheaper."

what was it that was unexpectedly expensive? Was it the yogurts? The rice is only about 50p a packet isn’t it, and meat can’t have been more than a few quid

I would have said about £26. Things cannot continue on this trajectory. It's so scary.

No branded stuff! It's all the little things which seem to be adding up these days. I'm always a bottom shelf girl.

It’s a bit strange, I have no idea what you’ve meant by cheap drinks bottle however I thought it should be rather about £28 -30
plus the price of the bottle.
By the way lots of products are cheaper in Aldi but not all, atm butter and milk are the same. Yogurt - depends on the size and type of yogurt. The same applies to small pack of ham and pack of beef.

Best part of £40

Wow, £219 for 3 weeks for 5 of you?!! You’re doing waaaaay better than me - does that include lunches too? I think I need to come to you for training….!!

I spent not much more in Lidl today and had four full bags of shopping. No mat though.