Grocery shopping

[MikeRafone]

I've swapped to lidl and am managing to spend £90 per week to feed 3 adults every day (not lunches though) and 1 adult 4 days per week (not lunches)

This include a top up shop in Sainsbury for the bits I couldn't get - so £82 Lidl and £8 Sainsbury

I've come in at £80 for the last 3 shops now - so not a fluke

breakfast is frozen croissants, pain au chocolate, toast and jam or bacon/sausage sandwiches, porridge and fruit

Roast chicken dinner with braised red cabbage, roast parsnips, roast carrots, broccoli and peas, Yorkshire pudding. Pudding was apple strudel and ice cream Bubble and squeak with sausages for Monday pudding was meringues, peaches and ice cream, homemade chicken curry Tuesday, yogurt and fruit, Wednesday Tarragon Chicken casserole (makes two portions so freeze for next week) creme Carmel for pudding, Thursday Pizza and garlic bread, meraingues and fruit with creme fraich, Friday fish chips and peas pudding rice pudding, bananas and custard, Saturday Chilli con Carne.

I do have enough mince meat to make spaghetti bog and I have bacon lardons to make pasta pesto, so each week Im putting extra in the freezer until I have 5 meals for one week

Im cooking for extra as having students staying for 12 weeks and I have to give them pudding - Im spending less feeding 2 more

Do you use both the Lidl AND Nectar apps for further offers & discounts?🤞

Sounds pretty reasonable to me. You could probably save another £5-8 a week if breakfast was always/mostly porridge with frozen fruit or toast with butter, but otherwise sounds about right.

Two don't like the porridge and I think its nice if they can have bacon sandwiches or croissants, especially works with teenagers that are running late for the bus - I can wrap it in tinfoil and they can eat on the bus!

UI use nectar - my daughter an I have a card between us with nearly £20 on this year - we use at xmas towards the big shop

Not got a lidl card though, didn't know about that

Lidl give you a free bakery item regularly (loaf of bread) if you do a moderate shop with them (if you have the Lidl app)

It's a feee bakery item if you spend £10 and over now.
Lidl is great, I really like it, I've shopped there for years. You need to get the Lidl plus app. Every week you get 15% off offers on lots of things you regularly buy, making your weekly shop even cheaper.
Every time you hit certain targets you get free food items as well. It also shows you reduced items in general instore.
Not to mention when it's reduced time food goes down to 75% off in the reduced section, making already cheaper food even cheaper!
Plus you get a virtual scratch card after every shop, can win freebies & offers on it.
I don't know why Aldi don't do a rewards scheme, as Lidl are serious contender's.
I do really like Aldi as well tho as that's cheap too.

I've had lots of sweet treats for free, it's not just bread. It's sweet & savoury

Also free sanitary products each month with Lidl 🙌