please help me

stressed_mother_of_one

i am really struggling with reducing the price of my trolley in asda. any suggestions? the more i try the worse it gets. i need to get it belw £50 including delivery. is it mission impossible?

Stir fry sauce - chow mein 3£1.50
Stir fry sauce - oyster 2£1.00
Egg tagliatelle1£0.95
Baked beans 3£1.86
Spaghetti loops2£0.28
Coco rice1£0.66
Cornflakes1£0.69
Muesli1£0.58
Baby wipes - fragrance free4£2.80
Size 5 - Nappies1£1.47
Eggs - minimum net weight1£1.45
Tiger complete with duck, rabbit and vegetable1£1.97
Litter1£1.16
Sandwich baps - white1£1.00
Fish fingers 40s1£3.008
Beef burgers1£1.00
Bananas1£1.25
Mushrooms2£2.92
Chow Mein noodles1£1.58
Stir fry - beef1£3.00
Irish recipe pork sausages - thick 8s 2£1.94
Mild white cheddar (price displayed is average price per pack)1£3.94
Cheese slices 10s4£2.00
Thin sliced Danish salami1£0.58
Cornish pasties 2£3.76
I can't believe it's not butter 2£2.28
French set yogurts - assorted1£1.11
Yogurt - strawberry and raspberry1£0.43
Cheeky Monkey cake1£6.98
Crumpets 6s 2£1.26
White loaf - medium3£1.14
Chicken breast - fillets1£3.20
Chicken goujons1£3.00
Curly Chips Oven Cook1£1.34
American style fries1£1.40
Potato waffles1£0.98
Freshly Frozen Baby Carrots1£0.98
Freshly Frozen Garden Peas1£1.48
Crispy potatoes1£0.74
Southern Fried Potato Wedges1£0.52
Giant Yorkshire pudding 3£1.23

subtotal£70.41

multisave discount-£3.83

estimated total £70.08:eek:

meals are =>
wednesday- sons bday so chicken goujons, cheesey waffles and spaghetti
thursday- beef in mushroom sauce with tagliatelle
friday- pasty, curly fries and beans
saturday- chicken chow mein
sunday- sausage, yorkshire, crispy potatoes and veg
monday- cheeseburger and wedges
tuesday- fish fingers, fries and peas

please help.

BitterAndTwisted

I'd get rid of that expensive cake for a start, although I do appreciate that we all feel we deserve a treat.

The potatoes: you could replace all of those pre-prepared ones and cook from scratch.

Personally, I think cheese slices are not good value and would replace them with whatever cheeses are on special offer.

The chicken breast and goujons: I'd buy a whole chicken and make your recipes from that. Or substitute for a cheaper cut like thighs. It all cooks the same.

Make your Yorkshire Pudding from scratch, it's not difficult and costs pennies compared the factory-produced ones.

Do without the baby-wipes: I think they're terrible value. Nothing wrong with warm water, cotton wool and then baby lotion, but you know best.

wigglebeena

You have a lot of different fancy frozen potato options. Nice to have, but if you really want to knock it down, I know in Mr S and probably in Mr A too you can get a HUGE basics bag of oven chips for about £1.16 - probably more than all your little bags of more expensive frozen fried potato. Good place to start.

Looking at your list, I make that about £4 saved straight off.

They're nice chips too. Good flavour.

brownhandbag

loose the cheese slices and use cheese from your cheddar block. I just discovered what goes into those rubber efforts and it ain't nice

floyd

Pasties are easy to make and cost just pennies as you can use up all the bits of veg that are on their last legs.

Stir fry sauces are really expensive when you consider that you can make most of them with some basic storecupboard items like cornflour, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, garlic and ginger.

Tagliatelle is also dear compared to basic spaghetti, pasta all tastes the same when its covered in sauce its just the shape that determines the price.

Absolutely agree with the potato thing as well. A bag of spuds can easily be baked, wedged, mashed, boiled, gratined for pennies compared to the pre-done stuff that is high in fat and salt.

Hope this helps

BitterAndTwisted

A good substitute for the processed slices on the burgers might be Leerdammer or something mild and melty like that.

Gigervamp

You've got a lot of processed food there, it would be much cheaper to make a lot of those things.

I make my own goujons from chicken breast. It's really easy and you can use different herbs and spices in the breadcrumb mix to add different flavours. My family likes cajun spices.

Also, as others have pointed out, those frozen potato products are very expensive for what you get. Wedges can be made very easily and again can have spices or herbs sprinkled on them. Making them from scratch costs loads less than buying them ready made.

wigglebeena

Is that 3 trays of basics baked beans at £1.86? I can't see how you'd be paying more than 60p a tin. What brand is that?

I've stopped even buying basics beans because I think they're taking the p. Red lentils or split peas are a cheaper legume option.

maman

If that's 2 packs of mushrooms I'd buy one large SP one. They can be really good, sometimes even chestnut mushrooms for SP Prices. Bertolli is on offer at £1 this week so try that instead of your usual spread. Totally agree with potato ideas ut perhaps other scratch cooking needs to be in medium term plan and fair enough treating DS on his birthday.

maggie111

Cut out the cake, the cheese slices and buy a mix of frozen veg, sure you'd find a carrot and peas mix for the same price as one? Your baked beans are a lot more expensive than your spaghetti loops? Are you going up a quality there? Cut out your cornish pasties and buy some frozen sausage rolls - bought a bag of fifty mini ones from tescos and it cost under a pound - bargain.

If you need help making an easy cake - get cake tins and greaseproof paper then you will always be able to make a cake.
Buy two packets of chocolate fudge cake mix, and a tub of betty crocker chocolate fudge icing - ta da! A perfect delicious cake and easy to decorate with things around the kitchen, like bits of chocolate, sweeties etc.

stressed_mother_of_one

just thought id add that the cake is for sons bday