3 bags of shopping for 5 pounds - ideas?

gwinnie

Eels100 wrote:

I'm sorry, I just had this really stupid thought "But staples are metal, they won't go off......." before I realised what you meant. :rotfl:

But I meant the metal ones.













:rotfl:

Prudent

This sounds great. As posters have said it would be asy to buy £5 of bulky store cupboard basics on a regular basis.

Lillibet_2

Hello Old Stylers!:hello:

I have a mystery shop job tomorrow which involves buying at least 3 carrier bags full of items in a certain well known supermarket, I will be paid £5 towards the bill but anything over the £5 comes out of my own pocket. I obviously want to get the most value for money & also useful everyday items which will save on my usual shopping bill, I am thinking big cheap things like

Kitchen towel
Toilet rolls
Litre cartons of long life milk

But....what would YOU buy?

Thanks for your help:wave:

Nicki

I'd probably buy flour and baking supplies, pasta, rice, tinned tomatoes. All low value fairly bulky items which we use a lot and which keep quite well. I know you have a little one as well so perhaps some baby stuff all of which is bulky- wipes, babybath or nappies if you can find them cheap enough to come in under budget.

Skint_Catt

Definately value tinned toms! It's almost like someone is easting them in our house we go through so much! :eek: :rotfl:

Stardrops too if they sell them! :j What about 'yellow' sticker items?

Catt xx

Pooky

I do a similar one to this each month but it has to be more than 5 items for £5 - I always stock up on flour, pasta, rice, passata and always treat myself to a bar of choccy for the effort involved in getting paid to shop

researcher

How about tins of chickpeas and the like, they're under 30p and can be used in all sorts of recipes. Tins of fruit - like mango is very cheap too and can be used in lots of dishes. Pasta. Rice. Vegetable.

I'd also stock up on things like household cleaning clothes and dish clothes and cleaning goods.

Check out whats on bogof or any other offer too.

MrsTinks

Pasta (huge bag for about £1), potatos, tinned toms, rice, lemonade, flour, bleach, lucky you getting that kinda shop is all I can say!

Shortie

Hmmm... if this were my shop I'd get a mixture of:

tinned tuna
chopped tomatos
kidney beans
gravy powder
biccies

All Value / Smartprice / Basics so would come in cheap, they keep (except for the biccies, they wouldn't stand a chance :rotfl: ) an d should fill 3 bags for a fiver

pigpen

I'd get a box of value wash powder (£1.80ish) (that lasts a month in here)
a big bag of loo rolls (£1.20 ish) (last about 10 minutes!)
a pumpkin for the children to carve(99p) (that'll do 2 meals)
That would fill 3 bags!
BIIIG bag of pasta (£1) (that would do 4-5 meals in here!)

There's my £5