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Literally penny pinching - need prices from Lidl

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Dalint · 24/08/2022 21:54

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.

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Original poster
Dalint · 25/08/2022 00:37

Notatallanamechange · 25/08/2022 00:32

You’re now just coming off as a right twat. Reported.

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You're coming across lovely!

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Notatallanamechange · 25/08/2022 00:43

Why go for support and be so damn rude? Pigheadedness might seem cool to you but when you’re so rude, blasé and unwilling to even entertain the concept of bloody feeding yourself for life over smoking yourself to death then yeah, you’re gonna piss people off. I say that as a lower income smoker.

BitterAndTwistedChoreDodger · 25/08/2022 00:46

If you are low on iron, spinach, broccoli and liver are all cheaper than beef.
<inhales cheap roll up>

Original poster
Dalint · 25/08/2022 00:47

BitterAndTwistedChoreDodger · 25/08/2022 00:46

If you are low on iron, spinach, broccoli and liver are all cheaper than beef.
<inhales cheap roll up>

Are they fuck?
They are not!

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Original poster
Dalint · 25/08/2022 00:48

Notatallanamechange · 25/08/2022 00:43

Why go for support and be so damn rude? Pigheadedness might seem cool to you but when you’re so rude, blasé and unwilling to even entertain the concept of bloody feeding yourself for life over smoking yourself to death then yeah, you’re gonna piss people off. I say that as a lower income smoker.

Go and have an auld fag there and don't be working yourself up

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PeloAddict · 25/08/2022 00:58

Do you do any online surveys?

Curious cat app lets you withdraw from £1
I'm sure I've got a code for branded surveys and LifePoints
Boring but it gets to a fiver quickly and you can withdraw to PayPal

Jade308 · 25/08/2022 01:07

Lidl, at leat the one by me is more expensive for salad bits than Asda, p,us you can get tobacco delivered with your shop. Everyone's a winner.

Notatallanamechange · 25/08/2022 01:16

Dalint · 25/08/2022 00:47

Are they fuck?
They are not!

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They are. You’ve got your lettuce leaf prices, you’ve been rude to a number of people. Almost goady or trolly now

Wafflesnsniffles · 25/08/2022 01:16

Switch to quorn - its half the price per kg than the price for beef you quoted. Once you've flavoured it for chilli con carne/spag bol/lasagne/pasta bake - you wont notice the difference.

Notatallanamechange · 25/08/2022 01:19

Dalint · 25/08/2022 00:48

Go and have an auld fag there and don't be working yourself up

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And I did, via vape. Realised that cost of living was getting bad a few years ago, bought one and intersperse the smoking with vaping. Amazing what you can do with a bit less arrogance.

Notatallanamechange · 25/08/2022 01:21

Wafflesnsniffles · 25/08/2022 01:16

Switch to quorn - its half the price per kg than the price for beef you quoted. Once you've flavoured it for chilli con carne/spag bol/lasagne/pasta bake - you wont notice the difference.

To be fair I’ve hated every comment by OP but I would wholeheartedly support the abuse against this. Tastes nothing like it and cooking anything takes about triple the number of tins of tomato, herbs, spices etc of it’s of the norm.

Dobbysgotthesocks · 25/08/2022 01:21

Are you remotely green fingered OP?

I bough lettuce seeds for 70p this spring . Shoved them in some compost at 4 week intervals and have so much lettuce and salad leaves it's mad! Saved myself a small fortune this year.

sidheandlight · 25/08/2022 01:28

I am not in the UK OP, so maybe not at all relevant, but everything I buy from the veg aisle in Lidl, rots faster than the Tesco veg aisle, with no exception (well maybe peppers). I appreciate you are looking for cents in savings. I don't see savings in meat either. It's all about the same. In fact the 2 things I never buy in lidl are veg and meat but everything else fine.

sanityisamyth · 25/08/2022 02:33

Dalint · 24/08/2022 23:13

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.

Literally my idea of hell. Allergic to tomatoes, crunching onions is like nails down a blackboard and makes me want to throw up and mayonnaise tastes like cum. Each to their own!

PyongyangKipperbang · 25/08/2022 03:37

mayonnaise tastes like cum
Does that mean that cum tastes like mayo? Cos if it does I might change my stance on "spit or swallow"! As long as it is Heinz Mayo because Hellmans is rank! 😅

BellaCiao1 · 25/08/2022 03:49

Come on, obviously a wind up.

Whatever you had planned to spend on a bus would obviously be more than the salad you are trying to save pennies on.

JohnsShirt · 25/08/2022 03:54

BellaCiao1 · 25/08/2022 03:49

Come on, obviously a wind up.

Whatever you had planned to spend on a bus would obviously be more than the salad you are trying to save pennies on.

Quite.
Wonder how much she's blagged behind the scenes....

TooMuchToDoTooLittleInclination · 25/08/2022 03:55

If you gave up drinking (alcohol) you could afford lettuce.

Wheretheskyisblue · 25/08/2022 04:57

Do you have the lidl app? You can get the weekly brochures in it which show steak at £10.48 per kg.

Literally penny pinching - need prices from Lidl
ApolloandDaphne · 25/08/2022 05:13

TooMuchToDoTooLittleInclination · 25/08/2022 03:55

If you gave up drinking (alcohol) you could afford lettuce.

OP doesn't appear to drink so that is unlikely to help, she smokes.

fannyfan · 25/08/2022 05:40

BellaCiao1 · 25/08/2022 03:49

Come on, obviously a wind up.

Whatever you had planned to spend on a bus would obviously be more than the salad you are trying to save pennies on.

Quite..

Can't find it within herself to give up smoking but can spend days on a thread about nhs staff at night bashing any and all hcps except paramedics (that's important)

surreygirl1987 · 25/08/2022 07:40

I was sympathetic until I read about the cigarettes.🙄

SharlaShanti · 25/08/2022 08:11

I used to eat lamb's liver, very cheap but high in iron.

Anxietyandwine · 25/08/2022 08:35

Haven’t read the full thread so apologies if it’s been mentioned.

I know you’re not keen on using a food bank but if you Google ‘community fridge’ and can find one local it’ll be a great help.

I use my local one and for £4 a week I get around £20+ worth of food. You go in and choose your own it’s not a food parcel. My local is called ‘the pantry’ definitely worth a look for you.

(For example last week was a pack of chicken thighs 700g, 4x baked beans, 4 x crisps, hot dogs, bag of pasta, 2x chopped tomato tins, a box of cereal, tin of sweetcorn, jar of pasta sauce, packet of rice, and then loads of veg and fruit.)

AceSpades54321 · 25/08/2022 08:37

Sheesh…..lung cancer, not being able to breathe, slowly suffocating to death is my biggest fear. I can’t get my head around why people would choose that way to end their life 😱 it looks horrific.