This week I will be mostly buying....?

ellas9602

Hello shoppers
Does anyone think it would be a good idea to share what special offers will make up their meal plans each week?
Personally I have reduced our grocery budget from £120 to £60 (to reduce debts) and would find it useful to know what special offers peeps are taking advantage off.
Not sure if this will take off or not but I've been looking around and to get me through the week so far I will be;

*stocking up on morrisons 50p for 4 pints milk
*stocking up on Aldis 39p salads (then stocking up on the new offer when it starts next week)
*buying a whole chicken £4 from Sainsburys(this will be two main meals plus one lunch meal)
*Sainsburys also have TTD cheese at £3.65/400g or 2 for £4 which looks good to me.

Maybe we could split into categories of meat/dairy/f&v etc..?
Suppose it doesn't have to be a special offer just good stuff to make a family meal..For example I may also buy Lidl chorizo for a pasta meal.
Where to stock up on essentials like beans/toms/eggs/flour could also be useful?
I could do with more meat offers and also vegetarian (for DD) to complete next weeks plan.
so.....
does anyone want to contribute/join in?
Ella
x

sarah1972

Good Idea although bargains are all on here under different shops titles if you know what I mean.

If we listed for example:

Asda so and so £1
Co Op so and so £2 etc etc
People would have to trawl through the lists just to get to the shops that they shop at (if that makes sense?)

As far as menues and meal planning, there are an awful lot of threads about this already on here and on the old fashioned money saving boards.

Sorry to put a bit of a dampner on your idea, I am not being critical as its a great idea, just my opinion

ellas9602

HI Sarah

Yes I see your point

Has anyone seen any chickens which are better value than the sainsburys ones?

fairtrade

My local Tesco were doing their meat packs/chickens 4 for £10, when they usually offer 3 for £10.

Update 28/08 been in this morning and they are back to 3 for £10.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I have stocked up with the 1kg packs of frosties from approved foods. bought 10 packs of them:D well at only £1.49 each.. and a long date on them...we eat loads of cereals so a total bargin for us

Ellie2758

Co-op 3 for a tenner and they are tastier too.

ellas9602 wrote: »

HI Sarah

Yes I see your point

Has anyone seen any chickens which are better value than the sainsburys ones?

Vaila

i usually stock up on value range tinned tomatoes and kidney beans. the tomatoes on there own make a good tomato soup for 30p and the kidney beans are added to everything to bulk it out a bit

bulchy

arran_m wrote: »

i usually stock up on value range tinned tomatoes and kidney beans. the tomatoes on there own make a good tomato soup for 30p and the kidney beans are added to everything to bulk it out a bit

I love tomatoes, we go through loads, could you let me have your recipe for tomato soup please? even though i love tomatoes, i've only ever made tomato soup once, a few weeks ago, i roasted onions and tomatoes then blended them with some vegetable stock, tasted ok but felt like there was something missing, sorry op to go off topic
Sue

Vaila

bulchy wrote: »

I love tomatoes, we go through loads, could you let me have your recipe for tomato soup please? even though i love tomatoes, i've only ever made tomato soup once, a few weeks ago, i roasted onions and tomatoes then blended them with some vegetable stock, tasted ok but felt like there was something missing, sorry op to go off topic
Sue

i guess its not realy a proper soup, but its a cheaper way of what my mum used to do with tin toms, she simply added a tin of chopped tomatoes to a tin of tomato soup to add more texture, but all i do realy is heat up a tin of chopped tomatoes and add either a veggie stock cube or herbs and any leftover veg ie onions, garlic and carrots...but if im really skint i just add a teaspoon of vegetarian gravy granules to a heated up tin of tomatoes....its amazing the things you come up with when the cupboards are bare !!!

bulchy

arran_m wrote: »

i guess its not realy a proper soup, but its a cheaper way of what my mum used to do with tin toms, she simply added a tin of chopped tomatoes to a tin of tomato soup to add more texture, but all i do realy is heat up a tin of chopped tomatoes and add either a veggie stock cube or herbs and any leftover veg ie onions, garlic and carrots...but if im really skint i just add a teaspoon of vegetarian gravy granules to a heated up tin of tomatoes....its amazing the things you come up with when the cupboards are bare !!!

Thanx, sounds nice, tbh even eating the tomatoes straight from the tin is delicious to me ;-)
Sue

Vaila

frozen veg at £1 in farmfoods