Food shop cost

[temperance81]

Anyone else have a mini heart attack when they put all of their Xmas food into their basket for delivery/pickup. Mine came to £400. Admittedly that's with a turkey, piece of beef and piece of pork and 5 bottles of alcohol. But I still!! I think we're living on beans on toast, and pasta and sauce for January! 🤯

I’ve not finished my basket yet but I’ve nipped out this morning for a few bits and have already spent best part of £100 on soft drinks, Pringles, Santa shaped butter, snacks etc!

I spent almost £400 yesterday too and still have the fresh food and turkey to buy!

I can't believe the price of party food this year. I went into Tesco yesterday to buy a couple of quiches, dips, sausage rolls, soft drinks etc... and was shocked.
Also, my cheese board is adding up to be pretty expensive this year.

I have a £350 Sainsburys order that will cover 5 days. Excluding the meat!!

Yes! It’s extortionate this year. We are hosting twice over the holidays so will feed an extra 9 people and I’m wishing we weren’t now. Add in a 16 year old who is always hungry I think we will burn through januarys food money over Xmas too. Will be creating a cheap meal ideas thread in a couple of weeks!

I'm not sure why people spend so much on a few days, and then live like paupers, to be quite honest. As for hosting large groups, surely more folk would be doing an 'everyone bring something along' sort of meal, or even chipping in, in the current financial climate?

It is what it is. Supermarket prices are scandalous but they know people need to eat and it's just pure greed the prices they charge. If I had a pound each time hear covid, Ukraine and cost of living once more I would be a millionaire. But it wont stop me spending a fortune buying meals for not only xmas but the normal food. But what I'm spending would have been cheaper in 2019 etc.

I have saved up my tesco club card points all year so have over £100 to use towards our shop. I am anticipating to spend around £250 overall. We are feeding 10 people on the day and will have lots of food and drink. That doesn't include the turkey though, I am picking that up separately

I am going to meal prep this weekend for some of the meals over Christmas too so there is food ready to go in the freezer that will just need reheating/defrosting otherwise the costs end up escalating even further and I end up desperate to eat a vegetable 😁 thats the plan anyway