I've been better organised this year and had a bit more time to shop around, which helped squeeze every penny out of the £15 grocery budget (not losing sleep over the extra 10p...)
I park the car in the Marks and Spencer's car park at the bottom of town every morning and walk the kids to school (to avoid the horrendous traffic and stay sane) - so, I often wander through the shop to get back to the car…which isn't the most sensible thing to do when you're hungry. Or when you're not, to be honest. I'm pretty good though, considering - and because I'm there just about every day I've picked up some great bargains. Always scanning for yellow labels. My best find this week was a 300g block of Ayrshire cheese reduced to a pound. Looks interesting, and it's going to come in handy over the next 7 days…
So, apart from finishing off a few stray tomatoes, half a cucumber, 2 slices of ham, a little butter and some soft looking apples left in the fridge, this is what we'll be eating.
Doesn't look like much, does it…
The only thing missing from the photo are the chocolate mousse/mousses? Mousses sounds wrong somehow - anyway, 18p for four - not bad.
Lidl
Chicken £3.04
Flour 3kg £0.90
15 eggs £1.19
sugar £0.49
tinned tomatoesx2 £0.62
porridge oats £0.39
rice £0.40
pasta 500gx2 £0.58
milk 4pts £0.89
Tesco
butter £0.86
potatoes 2.5kg £1.00 (half price offer)
choco pops cereal £0.83
3xonions £0.22
carrots 1kg £0.53
tinned peaches £0.50
4xchoc mousse £0.18
Asda
pesto £0.88
chocolate 100g x2 £0.60
Marks and Spencers
Ayrshire cheese £1.00
Total £15.10
I'll post our meal plan at the weekend.
Off to make some bread!