please help me

Penny-Pincher!!

stressed_mother_of_one wrote: »

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-Use Soya Sauce/Fish Sauce Etc
Stir fry sauce - oyster 2£1.00-As Above
Egg tagliatelle1£0.95-Use normal pasta and add an egg
Baked beans 3£1.86-Buy Cheaper Option
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-Value Ones
Fish fingers 40s1£3.008
Beef burgers1£1.00
Bananas1£1.25
Mushrooms2£2.92
Chow Mein noodles1£1.58-Use Vlaue Noodles
Stir fry - beef1£3.00-Pork is cheaper
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-Use normal and grate yourself
Thin sliced Danish salami1£0.58
Cornish pasties 2£3.76-Make your own-cheaper!
I can't believe it's not butter 2£2.28
French set yogurts - assorted1£1.11 -Natural Yogurt sweeten with fruit/honey?
Yogurt - strawberry and raspberry1£0.43
Cheeky Monkey cake1£6.98-Make your own!
Crumpets 6s 2£1.26-Value ones are nice
White loaf - medium3£1.14
Chicken breast - fillets1£3.20
Chicken goujons1£3.00-Make your own
Curly Chips Oven Cook1£1.34-Value oven chips are nice or make your own
American style fries1£1.40-Buy one lot of chips
Potato waffles1£0.98-Fry some spuds sliced in butter
Freshly Frozen Baby Carrots1£0.98
Freshly Frozen Garden Peas1£1.48
Crispy potatoes1£0.74-Make your own mini roasties
Southern Fried Potato Wedges1£0.52-Make your own
Giant Yorkshire pudding 3£1.23-Make your own

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.

You seem to have alot of convienance (sp) foods there which could easily be made.

PP
xx

mgardner

stressed_mother_of_one wrote: »

can anyong show me an example of your list and meal ideas then plz?
the pasies are 2 packs of 5
the eggs are a 15 pack
my son picked the cake himself.

If your little one picked the cake then thats what you have to get, I made this mistake with a young grandson, asked him what he wanted and let him choose, didnt realise the price of them, but could not then disappoint him. This year told him we would make the cake and let him choose the decorations and help do it, less than half the cost and one very chuffed little boy and nanny.

stressed_mother_of_one

thats the problem with the cake

lynzpower

The thing Id say is if you are tying to stick to the budget, then getting rid of your potato products is the best way. You probably have about a 9.00 saving right there.

Will you really eat 3 lots of cereal in one week?

I try to only buy what I need for the week - im not always successful! but this means that you can pick up better deals as and when you need them the special offers change every week.


If you plan for each week and only buy what you need for that week. Then the next weeks can use up what you have in. And thus you rotate your cupboards evenly.

I agree those noodles are expensive, Ive been into a chinese supermarket today to find noodle sheets for 35p for 2 sheets, about 1.3 of the price in supermarkets.

If you have home bargains near you - or farmfoods- they are donig amoy straight to wok noodles for 19p at the mo.

MrsAnnie

mgardner wrote: »

If your little one picked the cake then thats what you have to get, .

Not nessesarily. How old is your little one? If still quite young, can you tell him the shop has run out? (I know...a lie, but a little white lie is not too too bad!) He will probably soon forget about the monkey cake in a few days. And as the other posters have said,promise him a super home made cake with his own decorations - he will be so proud of it!!

After all the monkey cake is almost 10% of your grocery bill :eek:!

maggie111

Oh kids are much easier to manipulate as opposed to telling them white lies!

"I've been thinking about your birthday and have thought it over and decided that because you've been ever so well behaved, and because it's your special birthday (you don't turn __ everyday!!) That you get to make your own cake!!!! Oh wow you are so lucky, when I was little I only had the pooey shop bought cakes and I always wished I could make a cake with sprinkles and jelly beans and ANYTHING I wanted on it! You are so lucky and I am so jealous!! Wow, you could even decorate it like a ____ cake (name anything that is their favourite, Ben 10 or whatever). Wowee! You're lucky you've been such a good boy!!!"

That kind of thing works ALL the time

MrsAnnie

maggie111 wrote: »

Oh kids are much easier to manipulate as opposed to telling them white lies!

Sorry for not taking the moral highground :rolleyes:

sunflower76

Replace

• the noodles with 2 / 3 packets of smart price instant noodles at 10p a pack and ditch the sachet of sauce. Use these in your stirfry (saving £1.18)
• Smart Price frozen peas are 80p (saving 68p)
• Smart Price pasta is 43p (saving 52p)
• Replace all of the potato products with 2 x 2kg bags of Red Rooster potatoes on multisave @ £2 (saving (£2.98)
• Carrots can be replaced with 2 x tins Smartprice sliced carrots at 18p (saving 62p)

Total saving £5.98

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, crispy potatoes and veg, (take out the yorkshire)
monday- Change to jacket potatoes and beans & cheese
tuesday- fish fingers, fries and peas

Remove burgers, buns and cheese slices and save £4.00
Remove Yorkshire and save £1.23

Thats over £10 and if you can swap the cake for a homemade one then you'll be a lot closer to your target.

givememoney

missm29 wrote: »

When i've run out of wipes, i use flannels and soapy water or cotton wool and water. Try to just use wipes for dirty nappies now. I used to use baby wipes for everything face, hands, bums, cleaning the sofa etc until my mum commented on how many i used now i wash my little ones sticky hands instead of reaching for the wipes.

Quite agree when my kids were little for dirty faces and hands (not bums) used to rinse a flannel under the tap, ring it out and put in plastic bag to keep it damp then wipe them over with that whilst we were out.

mhe

Do you have to do your shopping on the net?
Aldi has alot of the stuff you bought for less. There 49p veg offer is great and I alter my meal plans to what they have on offer. Noodles are 19p a pack.
Home Bargains sells baby wipes cheaper too.

Failing that Id change to SP products and ditch all the chips - home made wedges are really easy to make - slice the potato into wedge shapes - put in a bowl - mix in a small amount of oil and mix to coat - roast at 200c for 30 mins or so. We have also swapped a lot of our meat for Quorn - its cheaper and tastes nice too. Asda do there own Quorn in the freezer section. The beef or chicken style pieces are great in stir fries and curries and are only about 1.50 a bag and are often on multi buy - 3 for £3

Try having a store cupboard week next week - use up some of the stuff thats still in and only buy fresh milk and veg/fruit.
Did you eat all of this food because you bought 10 pasties but only ate them for tea once - were some for packed lunches?

If you are doing your shopping on the net you can see how much your basket is - youll have to be really tough and go back and chuck out all those things you could do without this week.:rolleyes: