Food shopping!!!

Just been to do my two weekly shop..... £170 later i nearly died! Feel like i should have of given her an arm aswell!!

So, that's the dog sorted - what about you?

what have you bought

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We spend about £140 - £170 per week !! ... though most of thats larger now

we spend £50 a fortnight! booze is separate.....

I suppose I spend about £250 a fortnight on food (plus toiletries etc), but then there are 4 of us + Dempsey.

cost of living getting silly these days

theres only two adults and a small child and due to work he has his tea at childminders four nights a week. Cost a living is just ridiculous and we work just to survive!!! £50 a fortnight you got room for a little one ella haha!!

I bought all my meat, veg and treats most i have ever spent! think i need a stiff drink!

Jeez even I have heard of retail therapy, sounds like you need counseling after a spend like that. I would have fainted.

rebeccaleanne wrote:

I bought all my meat, veg and treats most i have ever spent! think i need a stiff drink!

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Kathy wrote:Jeez even I have heard of retail therapy, sounds like you need counseling after a spend like that. I would have fainted.

Haha i don't mind food shopping, retail therapy went out the window 4 years ago when the young man came along!!!!

think i just need general bloody therapy, The OH can go next time!!

I feed myself and i could spend about £50 a week. I'm a really fussy eater soo anything buy is really expensive, lol

The cost of living i.e. food which we are talking about here, is just astronimical, and I notice that the prices of meat and veg (at least in my local Tesco) have gone up since Christmas - the weather?

I spend about £50-60 per week on average on food (me, my adult son and dog, plus making a dinner for my elderly mum). I don't use convenience foods, except for the cook-in sauces for chicken or mince.

It's not easy, but to be honest I can't remember a time when it WAS easy!

rebeccaleanne wrote:theres only two adults and a small child and due to work he has his tea at childminders four nights a week. Cost a living is just ridiculous and we work just to survive!!! £50 a fortnight you got room for a little one ella haha!!

I bought all my meat, veg and treats most i have ever spent! think i need a stiff drink!

£50 a fortnight is for 2 adults and i eat enough for 2 as it is!

Lynda wrote:The cost of living i.e. food which we are talking about here, is just astronimical, and I notice that the prices of meat and veg (at least in my local Tesco) have gone up since Christmas - the weather?

I spend about £50-60 per week on average on food (me, my adult son and dog, plus making a dinner for my elderly mum). I don't use convenience foods, except for the cook-in sauces for chicken or mince.

It's not easy, but to be honest I can't remember a time when it WAS easy!

well we knocked it on the head 'popping to the supermarket' few times a week as when we worked it out we were spending too much. yes totally agree with everything going up since xmas!! we try not to use connivance food, i have two lasagnas and a bag a pop corn chicken for 'just incases' but everything else is so high, then you have the goverment going on about balanced diets and eating fresh but people on low incomes can barley afford to pay bills

I am lucky here, I can source most of our food fresh from farms and farmers markets, everyone should check out local farms buy their produce and the farmer will know another farmer that sells meat,eggs or other produce at a very low price and a lot fresher than supermarkets, even Cassie's meat i can get fresh cheap

dave742 wrote:I am lucky here, I can source most of our food fresh from farms and farmers markets, everyone should check out local farms buy their produce and the farmer will know another farmer that sells meat,eggs or other produce at a very low price and a lot fresher than supermarkets, even Cassie's meat i can get fresh cheap

im thinking about doing this as there was a piece in the paper were a couple were saving £180 i think it was a month on buying fresh

Please give it a go, it not only saves you money but makes you feel good too knowing you hard earned money is helping the farmer and staying local. potatoes,carrots and other vegies are so cheap and fresh, the taste is so different

dave742 wrote:Please give it a go, it not only saves you money but makes you feel good too knowing you hard earned money is helping the farmer and staying local. potatoes,carrots and other vegies are so cheap and fresh, the taste is so different

Gotta say, we used to buy a lot of our veg from the various local farmers markets/shops .. (LOADS round here in the stix) untill we watched a "Watchdog" type programme about how farm shops buy all the "qwuirky" mis-shapen veg and stuff that the supermarkets cant sell cus its "ugly" and sell it at a premium as fresh, and local

We still use a local farm shop down the road for some veg and mainly fresh meat as I know his family/background .. but farm shops these days as a whole arent much differant to s/markets we've found

Everyone needs to make a livin .. and we'd rather fund the local farmer, but at the end of the day, if we are payin through the nose for the s/market cast-off's ... it's good night vienna

Andy wrote:Gotta say, we used to buy a lot of our veg from the various local farmers markets/shops .. (LOADS round here in the stix) untill we watched a "Watchdog" type programme about how farm shops buy all the "qwuirky" mis-shapen veg and stuff that the supermarkets cant sell cus its "ugly" and sell it at a premium as fresh, and local

We still use a local farm shop down the road for some veg and mainly fresh meat as I know his family/background .. but farm shops these days as a whole arent much differant to s/markets we've found

Everyone needs to make a livin .. and we'd rather fund the local farmer, but at the end of the day, if we are payin through the nose for the s/market cast-off's ... it's good night vienna

I don't know about paying through the nose because i find it so much cheaper, but even at the same price as s/markets i would still give it the farmer than the asda owner sat on the yacht in the bahamas lol

dave742 wrote:

Andy wrote:Gotta say, we used to buy a lot of our veg from the various local farmers markets/shops .. (LOADS round here in the stix) untill we watched a "Watchdog" type programme about how farm shops buy all the "qwuirky" mis-shapen veg and stuff that the supermarkets cant sell cus its "ugly" and sell it at a premium as fresh, and local

We still use a local farm shop down the road for some veg and mainly fresh meat as I know his family/background .. but farm shops these days as a whole arent much differant to s/markets we've found

Everyone needs to make a livin .. and we'd rather fund the local farmer, but at the end of the day, if we are payin through the nose for the s/market cast-off's ... it's good night vienna

I don't know about paying through the nose because i find it so much cheaper, but even at the same price as s/markets i would still give it the farmer than the asda owner sat on the yacht in the bahamas lol

I guess .. just felt a bit of a fool after watchin the programme TBH .. and "farm shops" have been springin up all over the place round here for a couple of yrs ... some good, some as I described above ... but yeah once you find a good one (which we have), your sorted

Andy wrote:

dave742 wrote:Please give it a go, it not only saves you money but makes you feel good too knowing you hard earned money is helping the farmer and staying local. potatoes,carrots and other vegies are so cheap and fresh, the taste is so different

Gotta say, we used to buy a lot of our veg from the various local farmers markets/shops .. (LOADS round here in the stix) untill we watched a "Watchdog" type programme about how farm shops buy all the "qwuirky" mis-shapen veg and stuff that the supermarkets cant sell cus its "ugly" and sell it at a premium as fresh, and local

We still use a local farm shop down the road for some veg and mainly fresh meat as I know his family/background .. but farm shops these days as a whole arent much differant to s/markets we've found

Everyone needs to make a livin .. and we'd rather fund the local farmer, but at the end of the day, if we are payin through the nose for the s/market cast-off's ... it's good night vienna

Theres a few around me and one iv been meaning to pop into on my travels to work. theres also a good market by me would you think this would be cheaper than the super market?. But i am all for fresh produce

I live on my own. Only really eat veg and I'm a vegetable merchant so food costs are very little for me lol.

Meat from the butcher for Logan costs very little and I buy the big bags of dry food (sometimes unsuccessfully)

I don't like spending money!

MatLogan wrote:

I don't like spending money!

i been saying that for years. The farms i use have been around since i was a child, but like everything it's trial and error, finding cheap and quality and alot of it for me is mental, knowing the produce is fresh and i can drive past at certain times and see them picking produce, but at certain times of the year they obviously have to buy in some produce, but thats where i trust the farmer to respect me as a customer and give me the best he can

we spend about 40-50 quid a week,just started my diet though so it should drop a bit

RIP of Britain, it costs a fortune to live in this day and age, I try and get the half price deals but supermarkets are very cunning as they know how to get you to buy more than you need ie by moving items so you can't find what you need and then ending buying goods that you don't need clever bastards lol

shazney wrote:RIP of Britain, it costs a fortune to live in this day and age, I try and get the half price deals but supermarkets are very cunning as they know how to get you to buy more than you need ie by moving items so you can't find what you need and then ending buying goods that you don't need clever bastards lol

this is a classic, majority of the things i bought i were on yellow tags want to know how much i saved?!?! £3.38!!!!they are very cunning hahaha!!!

I don't spend anything on fod , just send out the OH to do it

Lucky you Dave to be spared that headache!

Just wait till you're an OAP though ......

Lynda wrote:Lucky you Dave to be spared that headache!

Just wait till you're an OAP though ......

Don't think he has that long to wait and Run!

£18 per week on food and houshold stuff and brew my own booze dogs cost me £26 per week lol guess where my priorities lie

Nathan wrote:£18 per week on food and houshold stuff and brew my own booze dogs cost me £26 per week lol guess where my priorities lie

what do you eat?!

i went to the co op the other day spent £20 few fresh bits!!! what you feed the dogs?

Browse and find deals on protien and use bulkers like potatoes and then taste with tinned toms and sweetcorn or beans, dogs eat either jwb or wainrights plus denta sticks and a tangly twizler each night as a treat....cant do without that :0)

Don't worry Rebecca I'm like you. No idea how allot of you are only paying that much, but then again there is 5 in our house. We normally spend around £100 - £120 and that includes food and toileties etc

Now from someone who use to shop full at Morrison, an Aldi store opened up right by Morrison, well I shop there now instead, and find I am saving £50 plus. I still have to shop at Morrison for certain things, but the main shop is now at Aldi, what a saver.

Mike wrote:Don't worry Rebecca I'm like you. No idea how allot of you are only paying that much, but then again there is 5 in our house. We normally spend around £100 - £120 and that includes food and toileties etc

Its hard when you have a family isnt it, i feel like you have to have 'emergency' food in at all times or a few quick and easy foods in (prefer to eat fresh but sometimes you just need them)

think i may try going local for meat etc

120/130 on food and toiletries for the 4 of us about 10/15 on memphy boy and abolut 70 quid on booze so around the 200quid mark lol