How much did this shop cost?

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2 FT working adults, 1 in nursery, 1 off school needing packed meals for holiday clubs - shop is for a week.

1. Attaching picture of full Morrisons trolley.
2. providing meal plan below
3. listing items

Any guesses as to how much it cost? It includes everything except 1 adult’s lunches (includes 2nd adults lunches as leftovers) -

picture attached .

NOTE: Have well stocked larder, plus Fruits: Have 4 sorts already at home and frozen fish

LIST of stuff -

Vegetables: ripen at home Avocados, Toms, cuke, onions, garlic, pots, mushrooms, broccoli, green beans, carrots.
Meats: Chicken thighs, drums x 2, pork.

dairy: Milk, buttery spread, plain yog, kefir, soft cheese, salad cheese (feta), roule
food cupboard: Wholemeal bread, beans, crisps, frozen pizza, chocolate digestives, garlic bread, lunch box cakes
household: bin bags, San pro, hand soaps, dishwasher tabs

8 MEALS for the week (not in order of days of the week!)

1. Meat free Mondays Paneer and chickpea curry, brown rice chopped Indian kachumber salad (leftovers for adult 1 lunch)
2. Sunday roast: Air fryer roast dinner with chicken thighs and veg
3. Busy Wednesdays: Jackets with baked beans and cheese, Greek salad
4. Drums Piri piri with couscous and salad
5. drums jerk style with wedges, salad (leftovers combining 4 and 5 for adult 1 lunch)
6. Pizza Thursdays: pizza and garlic bread night
7. Pork casserole with carrots mushrooms and Toms (leftover for lunch)
8. Fishy Fridays Spaghetti with teriyaki salmon and broccoli (salmon in freezer) leftovers for adult 1 lunch

8 Yo packed lunches (he’s crazy about avocados and olives and feta and puts away huge amounts of cheese and grows only vertically it appears!)

1. Wholemeal sandwich with soft cheese and avocado
2. side of olive and feta and toms and onion pot salad
3. Juice box
4. bag crisps from multipack
5. 2 fruits from bowl
6. Dates from cupboard
7. wedge of roule

how much do you think the shop came to?

That’s a big shop but mostly cheap items, nothing luxurious.

maybe £100 ?

Forgot to include! Paneer in dairy, and air fryer chips for freezer also in the picture and shop. Might be other stuff too!

£120

I recon expensive! I've beens shocked at the price of things recently... I'm going to guess £130

Good spot about luxurious. We don’t drink I forgot to mention. Not a health/religious thing - it just doesn’t happen often unless we’ve gone out (like last night!)

will put the cost on in a bit :)

Right. Have got to attend to air fryer roast - so will put costs on.

It’s cheaper than any of your guesses! Screen shot of transaction from Starling App attached.

this is due to the following caveats I should add -

1. Absolutely no branded items. Everything “savers” including avocados, dairy etc.
2. We don’t drink. Alcohol is zero on there
3. We have a well stocked herbs and spices cupboard and had eggs, fruits and fish at home. But I reckon that’s often the case that we might have 1 or 2 things already in.
4. Toddler is out of nappies and has meals at nursery
5. Dog food is covered through separate budget and enormous bags of kibble from specialist shop
6. And ……. I love cooking. Concocting random recipes from what’s at home is a post work stress buster.

it came to £62.41. If you have the time (!!) and zoom in to the individual items and price up the savers version If it it will add up.

screengrab attached!

A lot of money for very little meat and shopping overall. Morrisons is ridiculously overpriced.

I was going to say £70 without being able to see the amounts so seems right to me. I mean thats a decent price for a family of four for the week!

😳 Wow.

We have a similar shop to you and our Tesco shop this morning came to £121.

I mentally totalled it around £65-70 without knowing how many of everything/brands.
Our weekly shop is twice that, but we've got 3 hungry teens!

Good guesses from those guessing 60-70!

so we try to do the basic meal shop this way in the 60-70 region and tend to keep an additional £15-20 budget a week for some fancy top ups like any extra meat/fishmongers visit at 5-6 pm pre nursery pick reductions time etc and generally tend to find some nice top up fish/meat that way.

I looked at the picture only and was going to say £72

Well done though - I think you all eat well . Particularly your 8 year old's packed lunches !

£175

Ooft I was going to say about £40-£45 going by your list and comparing it to all those items I buy at my local Aldi 🤣 It's not a lot at all.

I had got to £60 before you told us. Think it’s good value for money.

We’ve recently started eating much less meat, and it’s considerably reduced our bills.

About £70 when I add it up. Difficult because you have not said how many of anything!

All great guesses! We don’t eat much red meat by choice, and I tend to make a lot of paneer from milk (Indian grandma’s technique with milk and lemon juice) - so Meat Free Mondays often become paneer Mondays and paneer Tuesdays etc. my son also really loves salmon - so frozen salmon packs tend to produce teriyaki salmon noodles and salmon fish pies couple times a week too. Rest of the week tends to be chicken drums, thighs etc I find. I’m sure if we had more red meat the shop would be higher.

then again though we do buy red meat off butchers/supermarkets around just before nursery pick up sometimes when reductions are on - so it does feature but not more than once or twice a week maybe.

naopies, alcohol or more meat would definitely push it further up, if we had those to add.

Agreeing!