£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

Just did a weeks shop at Lidl which is meat, salad, fruit veggies etc and then frozen top up for £106. And yes I bought lots of blueberries. And a 10 pack of Guinness!
Some of you are shopping in Harrods right.

Ok well I didn’t know

Show us a photo of your receipt - only joking - yes food prices regularly shock me, usually though its the preprepared food.

Not possible for everyone. My nearest Aldi is 25 miles away. Lidl further than that.

@Realscottishhaggis Are you in a remote location, or maybe one of the furthest islands?

You say in your title that it was £100 now you are saying £80, which is it?

You need to learn what’s local and in season.

This. The most expensive butter in our tescos is probably Kerrygold at about £2.95 a block.

Do you still have the receipt so we can see exactly what you bought? I shop in Tesco every week and can’t see what you said you bought coming to £100 (and we also buy the large pack of fresh blueberries, £4.50 ) just wondering if you’re overlooking something?

I spend less than that for food for two for a week.
Where were you shopping?
That's shopping at Tesco or Sainsbury's. Even at Waitrose for £100 I could buy meals for a week

I did a full week’s shop for two (and the dogs) at Aldi for £70 yesterday. Depends what you buy and where 🤷‍♀️

You keep adding things in to what you bought though. You say at the beginning salad bits and dog food. Now you are adding cheese, yogurts etc. So what did you actually buy?

Don't agree. Why should fresh berries out of season be accessible to us? It's not an entitlement. It's expensive for a reason.

I’m just confused as to why out of season berries should be ‘accessible to all’. Whats wrong with in season fruit that will taste better and hasn’t needed to be shipped half way across the world.

The OP clearer did a much bigger shop than she is letting on - cheese, avocados etc have all been added on since the original post.

It comes across as a stealthy ‘I just want you all to know that I can afford fancy blueberries at £5 per pack whilst some of you are stuck eating bananas’.

This a bash the poor thread guised as a humble brag.

i spend £5 on blueberries

jesus, some of you people need hobbies

Bananas are nicer than blueberries unless totally fresh though ? Why brag that you do something daft ?

It’s the beginning of March in the UK so not the season for salads with avocado and fruit bowls with lots of berries. I agree that healthy food should be accessible to all but the food you have chosen is expensive and would be a treat in our house rather than a given each week. Apples, bananas and oranges are staples here with berries as a bonus if within budget. Cheese is expensive these days as is premium yogurt. I’m not surprised it totalled up so high if it was a Tesco express.

Eating healthily is expensive to do if you are eating chicken breasts/salmon/steak with salad leaves, avocado, expensive tomatoes, feta cheese etc but much cheaper to eat lentils, beans, cheaper cuts of meat with British veg like carrots, celery, leeks, swede.

And salmonella corner is your friend. Dp went to fill up the car, and saw two sea bass fillets for 2 quid, so I've frozen them separately as he doesn't eat fish, extra brownie points to him for being thoughtful. And that was a tesco express.

The lettuces, radish and spinach in my raised bed right now disagree… plant in autumn for harvest in Feb/March.

I admit I’m clueless about what is out of season or not

Well, there's nothing like a price shock at the tills to find out! I love this website, it's so basic and makes me feel like I'm back on the 2005 internet: https://www.eattheseasons.co.uk/

Today we had roast pork shoulder which I marinated overnight in a slush of fennel seeds, capers, sage, rosemary, garlic and lemon zest - roasted with small turnips, parsnips, carrots, potato and a bulb of fennel. We ate this with some yellow sticker rocket. Dessert was apple crumble with some dried dates and apricots, orange zest and orange juice added to the apples to make it more interesting.

All these things are in season now so it feels "right" to eat them in on a grey dull Sunday in March, and would be completely wrong to eat them in on a blazing hot day in June!

I get a Riverford box every week for less than £25 - it delivers fruit, veg and salad for a family of 4, it's always in season, and then I plan and cook around what I get. Takes some of the thought out of it for me.

@Realscottishhaggis , you want berries and avocados to be accessible to everyone? In March?

Are you really this clueless?
Your posts being in Cost of living indicate that you are tone deaf.

Great website - thanks for sharing

don’t buy berries is a good option 🤷🏼‍♀️

£10 for dog food, £5 for blueberries leaves £85 for “ bits of salad” yoghurt, cheap veg, milk and meat. Have you checked your receipt? Unless you were buying big quantities it would not have gone to that.

Mince was over £6 milk £4 cheese £5, got a bunch of fruit and salad, idk who just buys salad leaves and that’s it I like to buy avocados, tomato’s etc