please help me

Toonie

Hope this helps you...its my delivery last week from Sainsbury and what I intend to do with some of it.

1 Sainsbury's Sweetcorn 1kg £0.96
1 Sainsbury's Garden Peas 1.81kg £2.70
1 Sainsbury's Traditional Breaded Cod, 540g £2.99
1 Pizza Express Pizza, Sloppy Guiseppe 8" 362g £1.79
1 Sainsbury's Smoked Back Bacon, Polybag 800g £5.59
1 Sainsbury's British Pork Streaky Rashers (approx. 500g) £2.98
1 Sainsbury's Freedom Foods Endorsed Chicken Thighs £1.57
1 Sainsbury's Freedom Foods Endorsed Chicken Drumsticks £1.28
1 Sainsbury's Freedom Foods Pork Loin Steaks x4 £5.01
1 Sainsbury's Freedom Foods Endorsed Whole Chicken (approx. 1.5kg) £4.23
2 Sainsbury's Beef Mince 500g £4.00
2 Sainsbury's British Pork Mince 500g £3.50

1 Sainsbury's Penne Rigate, Italian 1kg £1.24
2 Sainsbury's Classic Pesto Sauce 190g £2.22
1 Sharwood's Medium Egg Noodles 375g £1.00
1 Sainsbury's Trottole, Tricolore 500g £0.78
1 Sainsbury's Parmesan Cheese, Freshly Grated 120g £1.88

1 Sainsbury's Gold Label Tea Bags 80s, 250g £1.69
1 Sainsbury's Pure Orange Juice 4x1L Buy 2 for £5.00 £2.91
1 Sainsbury's Apple Juice 4x1L Buy 2 for £5.00 £2.09
6 Sainsbury's High Juice Orange Squash Drink 1L £6.00
2 Sainsbury's Skipjack Tuna, in Olive Oil 200g £2.30
3 Sainsbury's Chopped Tomatoes, Basics 400g £1.14
2 Sainsbury's Sweetcorn, Basics 326g £0.70
1 Robertson's Golden Shred Orange Marmalade 227g £0.74
1 Sainsbury's Cous Cous 500g £0.60
1 Kellogg's Frosties 750g £1.07
1 Sainsbury's Sultanas 500g £1.38
1 Tiptree Brown Sauce 310g £1.79
1 Sainsbury's Pineapple Slices, in Juice 227g £0.33
1 Sainsbury's Spaghetti Rings, in Tomato Sauce 212g £0.28
1 Sainsbury's Corned Beef, Premium 340g £1.48

1 Sainsbury's Porridge Oats 500g £0.39
1 Sainsbury's Home Bake Baguettes, White x2 £0.79
1 Sainsbury's White Petit Pain, Home Bake x6 £0.79
1 Sainsbury's Crumpets x8 £0.57
1 Sainsbury's White Butter Muffins x4 £0.65
1 Sainsbury's Low Fat Rice Cake, Be Good To Yourself 130g £0.85
1 Real Foods Corn Thins 150g £1.09
3 Sainsbury's Cream Crackers 200g £0.78
1 Sainsbury's Digestive Biscuits 500g £0.58
1 Sainsbury's Part Baked Half Ciabatta, Taste the Difference x2 +50% Extra Free £1.39

1 Sainsbury's English Butter, Slightly Salted 250g £0.94
1 Sainsbury's Fresh Milk, Semi Skimmed 1.13L (2pint) £0.86
1 Sainsbury's Cottage Cheese, Natural, 250g £0.65
1 Sainsbury's Gouda 265g £1.53
1 Sainsbury's Dutch Edam 230g £1.00
2 Cathedral City Cheddar, Mature 400g Add 2 for the price of 1 £3.86
2 Yeo Valley Organic Natural Yogurt 150g £0.68
1 Sainsbury's Houmous, Organic 200g £0.99
2 Flora Buttery Spread 500g Buy 2 for £2.50 £2.50
1 Stork SB Margarine 500g (59% Vegetable Fat) £0.59
1 Sainsbury's Butter, Salted, Basics 250g £0.84
1 Sainsbury's Cucumber, Whole £0.70
1 Sainsbury's Beansprouts 400g £0.59
1 Sainsbury's Maris Piper Potatoes 2.5kg £1.99
1 Sainsbury's Sugar Snap Peas 200g £1.32
Total £95.14

This is what I came in my order last week. The majority of food is to last the month, this is just for me and my partner. We mainly plan big meals for weekends, as I eat at work during the week.

Friday-Chicken stir fry (chicken legs, half beansprouts, half sugar snap peas, sweetcorn and noodles).
Saturday-Fried pork steak, jacket potatoes, sugar snaps, sweetcorn
Sunday-Pasta, pesto and cheese
BF will have pasta/noodles during the week or sometimes we will have fish if I've only had a light meal at work.
We will also make meatballs (pork mince), cottage pie (beef mince), pasties using mince and frozen veggies, Bolognese, roast chicken, chicken and chips, chicken stir fry, and sticky pork (streaky rashers, pineapple, brown sauce).

We do also have a good store of food and find this really helps. Many of the items on the list (sweetcorn tins, tuna, tomatoes, orange squash) are for the store cupboard and will keep us going for longer if we have problems with money or getting to shops-both BF and I have back problems.

We also don't eat much bread, so what we buy are part baked rolls for when we do fancy some and they can be frozen. As for vegetables and fruit, we buy these week to week as we've found the quality of those delivered is not very good.

maggie111

MrsAnnie wrote: »

Sorry for not taking the moral highground :rolleyes:

Gosh, don't know if we've fallen out or not... Just thought it'd be easier to spin it into an exciting thing rather than leading with disappointment

No offence meant, honest! :beer:

OrkneyStar

Got to say there are some good ideas on here.
More and more I realise that shopping south (by this I mean on the UK mainland, not 'down south' lol) is much easier and cheaper.
So many of you mention Home Bargains, Aldi, Asda, Sainsbugs etc and I miss having all those to chose from. Here we have Tesco, Lidl, Coop (all smallish compared to mainland stores!) and local shops- anything else we have to go off the island for (and that costs!). I try to stock up when at mums but its a faff bringing too much back. I think I will try to set aside some of my Household budget for next trip away so that I can stock up in all these cheaper shops, and set aside some car boot space too!!!

BitterAndTwisted

OrkneyStar, I think you should borrow a van! Do people who are traveling to the mainland collect shopping lists for their neighbours so pool resources? There might be an opportunity there, I think

lynzpower

Another point for OP is that if there is a 99p store around, again they are doing Amoy Jar sauces for 2 for a 99p. They feed a family of four easily - last night we had the yellow bean and cashew one, chicken, babycorn, onions, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and there was 3 large portions there, and we only used half the jar.

OrkneyStar

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

OrkneyStar, I think you should borrow a van! Do people who are traveling to the mainland collect shopping lists for their neighbours so pool resources? There might be an opportunity there, I think

There is only 3 of us in the car (and one is a toddler) and so it is fine for us just to fill the boot and other spaces - always careful not to block the back window though . Any van which would safely seat three would cost even more than a car does!
As for pooling well that is an ok idea but tbh I don't want to spend my time doing other peoples shopping!

BitterAndTwisted

I have no idea why I imagined you might be going to the mainland on your own. The getting shopping for other people was more about them getting for you, rather than you cramming a car full of shopping with three passengers in it. It just surprises me that folk wouldn't club together but I expect I have an idealised impression of what living on the island is like.

OrkneyStar

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I have no idea why I imagined you might be going to the mainland on your own. The getting shopping for other people was more about them getting for you, rather than you cramming a car full of shopping with three passengers in it. It just surprises me that folk wouldn't club together but I expect I have an idealised impression of what living on the island is like.

Oh I am sure some people do club together, especially those living on the smaller islands who have to get a ferry to the Orkney mainland and then another one to the real mainland!
I did used to go on my own when I was working (but then of course less shopping time), and I was away with just me and DS too recently (but with my sore back I had to not overdo it!).
I just prefer to get my own stuff (even if someone offered- in fact someone did offer to get me Stardrops!) and also would not want to be getting other folks stuff as its too much to organise.
Anyway, thanks for your thoughts .

mouseymousey99

I did notice Tesco had a big sign saying the prices in Aldi - actually on some things they are cheaper (than Aldi). Knew it wouldn't be too long before they started matching prices - no one is allowed to compete with mighty Tesco. (Yeah I do shop there and save the points - for wine, I am so easily bought)...

freebie-fan-jen

is there a reason why you do your shopping online? if you go at different times of day you can find out when your local asda puts out their reduced items which can be frozen for when you need them.

also have you tried those powdered shake on sachets? you can get wedges flavours and chinese etc?

good luck!