3 bags of shopping for 5 pounds - ideas?

luxor4t

3 bags and only £5 towards it?
Gosh, I am sure the Mystery Company is making a profit!!!!

Porridge is bulky, cheap, healthy and you can make yummy flapjacks.

You could buy Christmas items like mincemeat or dried fruit - not very cheap but extra useful?

Tissues - I grudge paying for them!

dronid

Pasta
Rice
Potatoes
Onions
Carrots
Cabbage
Lentils
Tinned Tomatoes
Curry Powder
I'm probably up to my limit there.

It'd be interesting to have a storecupboard list at a minimum value to do as much as possible.

mookybargirl

Pasta, potatoes, bananas, milk, bread.... um :rolleyes:

shell_girl

I'd go for
Gammon Shank (If your supermarket has a butchers- these are usually about a £)
Tinned Tomatoes
Huge bag potatoes
Leeks
2 or 3 boxes dries peas
Onions
Carrots
Flour
Yeast
Pasta

I'm cheating a bit cos me and OH are skint this week- and this was my actual shop. So far this week we've had loads of homemade bread and I've batched and frozen leek and potato soup, veg and ham soup, pea and ham soup, and a lovely french onion soup. Managed to make up lots of pasta dishes based on what was in cupboards already- and my 'weekly' shop came to £5.42.

OH says we eat better when we're skint that we do when we've just been paid!

TAG

When I do these shops I always pick a date when I would do my normal weekly shop. That way your not making a special trip and your also being paid to do what you would be doing anyway.

cheerfulness4

i'd go with cornflakes and value loo rolls and some cheap large size shampoo and bubble baths.

Wish we could still get huge pasta for £1. The 3 kg has gone up to £1.99 in Tesco last night. :eek:

tiff

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

i'd go with cornflakes and value loo rolls and some cheap large size shampoo and bubble baths.

Wish we could still get huge pasta for £1. The 3 kg has gone up to £1.99 in Tesco last night. :eek:

I was just going to post this about the price of pasta. I was shocked when it went up to £1.48, even more now its gone up 100% from a few months ago!

nic82

tiff wrote: »

I was just going to post this about the price of pasta. I was shocked when it went up to £1.48, even more now its gone up 100% from a few months ago!

I saw that too. I can't believe the 100% increase. I will still buy it because it does mean quite a few meals at a low price, but just not as low as it was a few months ago

furrypig

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

Wish we could still get huge pasta for £1. The 3 kg has gone up to £1.99 in Tesco last night. :eek:

Hi I have noticed the pasta increase of now 100% but Sainsburys have their 3kg bags for I think £1.49 still! So I have switched my pasta buying from Tescos.

furrypig

Lillibet and Pooky

May I ask who you do your supermarket mystery shops with??

I just thought it would be a really good thing to sign up to if they accepted me!

Thank you