Literally penny pinching - need prices from Lidl

[Dalint]

apologies in advance if you have read this post lol
I tried to get to Lidl today but the bus decided not to run. 😏And the arseholes are going on strike too I believe. Wonderful.

I pay for a Tesco delivery subscription as I don't drive but I'm actually down to pennies these days.
Can anyone tell me the price of the following three items from Lidl (I don't have Aldi near so I don't need those prices).
Iceberg lettuce
Cucumber
Stewing beef (lean diced beef) - I've 600g in basket (£10.50/kilo)

I used to know the price of everything but my memory is shot and now everything is jumping extortionately and I know that the next thing to go will be my will to live lol.
The tesco delivery is tomorrow so I only have 2 hours to decide before it's locked in and when it's pennies for heating for the winter or a penny here or there to a company, I no longer have the luxury.
Jesus Christ, but this is awful.

I dont blame you. I quit smoking to have my kids and I miss it every day. My mental health has never been the same either.

I've got a £15 off a Morrisons £60 shop of that's any good to you/works on someone else's account? Just seen the email and did my shop yesterday but it expires in a few days fss.

Would you substitute some of your fags for a vape? It’s way cheaper and healthier too.

"I'd prefer that someone with children got food from food banks rather than me"

That's not how it works, you won't be doing a kid out of food by going to the foodbank. Just go, you're not a fraud and they would want you to go.

I am astounded that a person spends more on fags than on food.

Wow I'd love £80 a month to spend on just me. I'd still lose the lettuce though 🤣

I've started rationing how much cucumber anyone gets now. So instead of getting through the whole things well done half one day half the next regardless of what anyone gets.

Can people stop with the comments and judgement of the OP's choice to smoke?

I don't have prices for all of those unfortunately, but I think I got an iceberg lettuce last week for 55p.

Your life is your own, so no judgment from me re: smoking. But it’s worth noting that smoking reduces your levels of vitamin C, making it extremely difficult to absorb iron. In short, smoking predisposes you to iron deficiency.

Could be worse in terms of smoking costs - least you're not in Aus...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/24/smoking-was-costing-me-1000-a-month-by-the-end-but-thats-not-why-i-quit

I should introduce you to the concept of the salad sandwich.

This recipe is for two people:

2 tomatoes
2 spring onions or half a brown onion (a lot of people can't tolerate spring onions strangely)
Half a head of butterleaf lettuce (in poverty, a quarter of an iceberg lettuce will do).
Mayonnaise
Butter
6 slices of bread
A grain of salt (also known as about a teaspoon)

Now, back in the day, this recipe called for 'wilted' lettuce and for the tomatoes to be put into boiling water for 10 seconds to get the skins off them.

We're all evolved now and realise that wilted lettuce has lost a lot of its nutrients to the free-radical process and the skin of the tomato is no harm.

So, you chop your onions (I'm one of the ones who can't tolerate the spring onions) or your spring onions finely. Chop your tomato and chop up or tear your lettuce.
Stick them all in a bowl. You want enough lettuce to be about 3 to 1 to the onions and tomatoes.

Now we come to a point which has almost caused life-long fall-outs in my family. Salad Cream or Mayonnaise?

For the purposes of peace on earth, I'm going with mayonnaise (it was decided by my mother that only a fucking lunatic would put salad cream on a salad sandwich). Mayonnaise is creamier to be fair to my mother.

Ideally you will have an assistant in this process who is buttering the bread, while you're enduring the chopping.

Anyway, the grain of salt is the secret ingredient.

You stick the tomatoes (chopped up), onions (chopped up) and lettuce (chopped up into a bowl and you throw a dollop of mayo on top. You mix it up. You will then usually decide that it needs more mayo so put another dollop in and stir again. Very important to stick the grain of salt in now too. Then you taste. But DO NOT FUCKING DARE PUT THE SPOON BACK IN OR I WILL FUCKING HUNT YOU DOWN. Adjust salt and mayo as per your taste preference.

Now, your assistant should have buttered the bread at this point, so she is prepared with her/his slices of bread. It's important that you don't over-fill these sandwiches as they're going to be moist (hence the requirement for butter).

Slice into triangles and serve with a cup of tea. Not to Auntie Anne though who prefers salad cream. She gets a ham sandwich.

Oh come on this has got to be a wind up.

Strikers are are arseholes and spending more on fags than food?

Hi, have you tried selling stuff you don't want on Vinted for some extra cash?

I joined last week and have already made a sale on something that I thought no one would want

Btw - cucumber has no place in a salad sandwich. End of story.

Nope. If it was, I wouldn't be fucking admitting to spending money on tobacco. I'd be pious.
Jeez. I just asked for the fucking price of lettuce! FFS

@Dalint, well yes maybe in your first post, after that it seems all bets are off.

I'm pretty sure that I'm not begging.
FFS.

Aunty Anne and my mother would have a fucking field-day over the price of lettuce lol.

No judgement on the smoking, as you say, your choice.

I would say that although the items you asked about are more, the majority of stuff is cheaper at Lidl so overall should save you money.

Also, check out price per Kilo on your stewing steak and other pre prepared meat/veg. Cant speak for Lidl but in Aldi it was £6.99 kg when I last bought it (admittedly a while ago) but the roasting joints where £5.99 kg. So I would buy a small roasting joint and make double the amount of stew because although the initial outlay was more, per portion it was cheaper. The meat was better quality too so needed less cooking time to tenderize so a saving on fuel too. Also I cook two meals at a time if I am using the oven so (say) stew on the top shelf and a curry or bolognaise on the bottom shelf as they both do well with a long slow cook as long as they are covered with foil and maybe add a bit of extra liquid to allow for evapouration.

You could try checking out your local FB and seeing if you have any food hubs, community food groups etc around - one near me is not a food bank in the style of Trussel Trust, it’s a hub to give away food to anyone that wants it to reduce waste. It’s currently swimming in fruit and vegetables (often locally grown) and they’ll give it to anyone, no questions asked, pauper to millionaire. They have so much it is literally being binned at the end of sessions. Salad galore.

Back to the OPs original question, you may find trolley.co.uk helpful for comparing prices, although it looks like lettuce and cucumber are 'known cost items' that are the same everywhere, so the likes of Waitrose and Sainsburys can claim to be the same price as Aldi and Lidl, because the price of a few key staples are the same and then they hope you'll buy all your shopping there too.

Can I substitute pepper for tomato please?

You're your own worst enemy then, if you prioritise smoking over eating.

Stop calling striking workers "arseholes" as well. People deserve decent pay and conditions in return for their labour.

That's the kind of detail I can work with!

I prefer the lean stewing beef as the cheaper cuts take longer to stew.
Thanks.

I'll work it out.

Jesus. Are you fucking nuts? That would cause war!

The bus drivers striking are arseholes?

I am astounded that a person spends more on fags than on food

It's an addiction... You want it more than food a lot of the time. Before I went dry I'd have rather gone all day without food than go without booze!