£100 for salad and dog food

[Realscottishhaggis]

I got some salad bits, fruit, dog food which was only £10, cheap veg, pack of mince, milk and yogurt well that’s £100 rounded up gone, on what was essentially a top up shop. Yes it’s my fault for buying £5 blueberries, I know there’s frozen but it’s not as nice and nothing should be so expensive anyway. if it’s this expensive to be healthy I’m not surprised hardly anyone does it.
I am only venting as I’m aware I have bought expensive food just saying I don’t think it should be expensive

That’s ridiculous. I did a weekly shop in Aldi today and spent £78.00. Two adults/2 cats
Cucumber x 2
Tomatoes
Rocket
Celery
Radishes
2 x bags of spuds
Carrots
Cabbage
Cauliflower
3 bags of English apples
2 x bunch of bananas
3 x tinned fruit
onions
garlic
Sausages
Chicken thighs x 2
Salmon
pork steaks
tinned tuna
4 cans of beans
frozen peas
frozen sweetcorn
basmati rice
2 x tinned toms
kitchen roll
baby shampoo
cat food (2 x 12 boxes)
Chicken pies (frozen)
handwash
razors
crumpets
2 x bread
butter
jam

I once found a box of cherries for £9 in M&S 😁

I didn't buy them obviously just stared in admiration

It genuinely cost £100 Idk how people think that’s unbelievable

Strawberries were a similar cost I bought a few different types of fruit and things like a few different salad leaves cheese avocado tomatos and so on

It’s not if you bought big quantities of the stuff rather than an average amount. Good luck with the blueberries if they’re fresh, mine have been awful.

Strawberries are very expensive this year.. bought (in Tesco) a large punnet today I think it was £3.60. They were really big but didn’t get many in the pack, and completely tasteless. My 2 kids ate them all in a matter of seconds.
Then they had half a melon each, which was £2. Melon is better value I think as there’s more of it.
But requires me to cut it up.

I can see how you racked up £100 pretty easily. I’m always surprised by how much I spend in Tesco. And Sainsbury is worse. Aldi is a good idea, I just don’t like the car park at the one near me it’s designed for accidents.

6 x bags of frozen fruit 400-700g each in Farmfoods for £10. Lovely, good variety, no waste.

Good to know as it’s not bad for smoothies

Of course people believe it's possible to go into a supermarket and spend £100 but what's not true is that it costs £100 for 'a few bits' or 'a top up shop', unless those items are expensive versions or in large quantities.

You see it a lot on here, people try to insinuate 'CoL, how awful, how do people afford to live' with stories that simply do not add up. Yes prices have risen and yes many people are really struggling but that doesn't mean that it costs £100 for a top up amount of salad and dog food.

I could say that 'cat food costs hundreds of pounds a month' or it's '£80 for a bag of shopping from Ocado' and while that is my personal experience it's not representative because we have 6 cats and I bulk buy when I see good offers so might spend £300 one month but little or nothing in the next two.

Then I only really shop at Ocado very occasionally and buy treaty little bits which add up. I don't really consider this normal grocery shopping more me indulging my foodie interests, eg my saved list with them is called 'nice things' with bits I want to try. I once bought 6 packs of naice butter to compare whether any of them were sufficiently better than basic £2 supermarket stuff to justify the extra cost, most of them weren't tbh.

because what you said in the OP suggested it was just a few bits. But it’s clearly more and since then you’ve added cheese too.

list it here and people will be more likely to believe you!

A few bits is generally not £4 worth of milk which must be about 10 pints

But you’re choosing the expensive fruit for this time of year and buying lots? Of course that’ll be expensive.

Why won’t you list out what you bought @Realscottishhaggis or show the receipt?

Such a ridiculous thread 🙄.

OP went to a shop, bought what she fancied irrespective of the price because she fancied it and could afford the price.

Then chooses to post in a topic frequented by posters genuinely struggling to buy necessities just to say I think I should be able to buy whatever I like, whenever I want it, but for less money 🤔

This, basically.

The OP is not going to post a receipt. I hate these threads where people either drip feed or make up nonsense.

We are going to Lidl later. I don’t buy fresh berries because we can’t eat them quickly enough but we will have frozen berries. Veg will be lettuce and cucumber and tomatoes and the usual carrots parsnips turnips celery etc. onions don’t need potatoes we still have some Mince and a roasting chicken. Apples. Bananas. Tinned toms. Kidney beans and chickpeas. Milk. Yoghurt which is the big tub of Greek. Oranges. Dilute. If it’s more than £60 I’ll be shocked.

Strawberries are not nice just now as they are the imported hard tasteless ones so we avoid until the british/Scottish ones appear.

if you choose to buy lots of the out of season expensive options then of course it will cost you more

Unless you post details of what you bought including quantities then it is hard to comment.

If you are on the Shetland Islands and so transport costs are higher that would also be relevant.

You didn’t buy ‘a few bits’. You bought a fuck-ton of stuff. Even if you did only buy some fruit and salad, you obviously bought loads of it, and the most expensive kind.

Yep! £98 in Sains yesterday, £47 in Aldi today, we’ll need more food by Wednesday! There are five of us (well four as dd1 currently away at uni) but it’s just not sustainable even with us both working full time!! 😥

OP bought a lot of luxury goods for her £100, if she had wanted to save money she could have bought a tub of spread for about £1.50. As PP said, why is this indulgence in cost of living section.

Ypu need to post the receipt OP otherwise nobody here is going to believe you. I spend £60-£100 per week in Sainsbury's/Tesco/Lidl (I like to rotate so I don't get bored!) for a fanily of 4, and that sum often includes cat food/clothes/gifts/toiletries/cleaning products as well as food. I'm in Kent so not a cheap part of the UK! I rarely buy branded items though - for most items we can't tell the difference so it's not worth it.

But it is accessible to everyone? People can buy smaller amounts, from different retailers etc. We dont have a single price for food items.

nothing should be so expensive anyway

With out-of-season fruit from South America, South Africa etc you're paying for the air miles and the import.