£300 -6 months shopping list help needed

sandraroffey

wow, can i come and visit??

scaredy_cat

for the meat, i would suggest contacting a local farm shop or farmer and buy 1/2 a pig or lamb. This may work out cheaper and be better quality meat. I did see a reply on another thread where someone said they got it for £118!

Also with the teabags, Tesco always have an offer of either 50% extra or BOGOF so buying in bulk is a bit pointless i think. You also have to think where will you store it all. If you put it in the garage, some of the items can get damp and ruined.

Why not open a basic saving account and only use it got grocery money so that you have to go into the branch to withdraw the set amount each week or fortnight?

GrillMonkey

Also if your taste buds will allow you to drop down a brand and buy tesco basic tea bags you could save more than half the money you would have spent

mum_of_4

wrote: »

wow, can i come and visit??

New list

£48.00 -16 packs of fresh mince (buy 2 1kg for £6)
£20.00 -20 packs of walls sausages £1.00 each
£30.00 -30 bags of 800g peas £1.00 each
£40.00 - 8 x Salmon 8 pieces £5.00 a bag
£19.50 -10 value white fish pieces 800g £1.95
£20.00 - 6 whole chickens (3 for £10)

£24.80 - 10 boxes of Tesco 240 tea bags £2.48 each
£16.24 - 28 bottles of tesco squash 58p each
£11.60 - 10 baked beans pack of 4 £1.16 each
£24.00 - 1.5kg Strong white flour 48p each
£3.75 - 5 daisy 1l washing up liquid 75p each
£15.80 - sugar 1kg 79p each
£8.40 - 10 x Tesco Red Split Lentils 500g 84p
£15.00 -6 x Pasta dried 3kg £2.50

Total £297.09

I've just checked my freezer list and i have
18+kg of french beans,
6kg ish sweetcorn cobs
27 bags of about 500g of tomato base sauce (tomatoes, onion, basil and garlic)
6kg carrots
a couple of bags of spinach.

I also have swedes, beetroot,carrots, onions and potaotes in the garage and drying kidney beans and those white beans canellio???? Leeks,spinach, parsnips and brussel sprouts and 3 cabbages still on the plot.

sandraroffey

please remember here folks that we are looking at spending £300 of TESCOs shopping cards.

mum_of_4

scaredy_cat wrote: »

for the meat, i would suggest contacting a local farm shop or farmer and buy 1/2 a pig or lamb. This may work out cheaper and be better quality meat. I did see a reply on another thread where someone said they got it for £118!

Also with the teabags, Tesco always have an offer of either 50% extra or BOGOF so buying in bulk is a bit pointless i think. You also have to think where will you store it all. If you put it in the garage, some of the items can get damp and ruined.

Why not open a basic saving account and only use it got grocery money so that you have to go into the branch to withdraw the set amount each week or fortnight?

Yes maybe i should scrap the teabags and just buy 3 boxes and i guess i could get a clubcard plus.

It's just peace of mind knowing that more or less we are covered for the next 6 months by which time we should have sorted ourselves out. With having the children i did think it would be nice to know that we have enough food. I have the veg covered and i cook everything from scratch but sometimes i get side tracked with special offers.

Idiophreak

mum_of_4 wrote: »

£16.24 - 40 bottles of tesco squash 58p each

Err, that doesn't add up...

mum_of_4

Whats the shelf life of butter and say stork.

I buy the stork for 38p for the bread and pastry

GrillMonkey

sandraroffey wrote: »

please remember here folks that we are looking at spending £300 of TESCOs shopping cards.

Ooops, I should have read the origanal post a bit more carefully. Sorry. :rolleyes:

mum_of_4

Idiophreak wrote: »

Err, that doesn't add up...

sorry 28 bottles - if you could see dining room table covered in numbers and crossings out;)