£224 per month for 7!!!

Allegra

patchwork_cat wrote: »

I'm not criticising per se , it just isn't to my taste and even if I only had £100 I think I would make different meal choices to weezl. We all have different tastes, but it is none the less remarkable.

Oh, I wasn't suggesting you were criticising, and I quite agree re tastes and dietary needs - was just pointing out that there is no way to get the sort of food that this lady says she eats for the sort of money she claims to pay - not unless it's all 10p whoopsies, week in and week out !

I guess it's possible that she has found that her bill has been that low in a given week or month, if she relied heavily on the sotorecupboard and what she already had in - I have had weeks when we spent about £10 on the weekly shopping for three of us plus cat, and that included a £3 bottle of wine ! But this is simply because we tend to stock up when stuff is on offer, so we just needed nothing else that week. That certainly does not mean that we were eating for £10 a week - storecupboard stuff still cost money, regardless of when you bought it !

Actually, while I am on my hobby horse, let me just mention those supermarket "feeed your family for £x a week" where they give you a shopping list for £x and then tell you - and now go to your storecupboard and get your spuds, pasta, rice, your butter, cheese, olive oil and wine vinegar".... Erm, that's not £x per week then, that's £x plus £y for the cost of stocking up the storecupboard !

ladymarmalade

bluetimone97 wrote: »

I am always shocked by how much people say they spend on takeaways, if we have a rare takeaway (Me, OH, DS1 19, DS2 17, DS3 14) so all adults really we spend

Chipshop (2 portions chips, and either sausage in batter or fishcake (large ones if required)) - Never more than £10
Pizza (2 Large pizzas between us) - £16
Chinese (Various dishes) = Never more than £21
McDonalds (We use the poundsaver menu usually) - £13-£15
KFC (Bucket of some sorts plus a mini fillet or popcorn chicken) - £16 but sometimes cheaper

My word that doesnt sound much more than what my Oh and I would eat in a rate takeaway night and we are both skinny!
You must all snack a lot in the day or have very small appetites!

lostinrates

Churchmouse wrote: »

I have always found it somewhat annoying when various posters on MSE have claimed ultra low spending, to find they "always" get enormous reductions, find absolute bargains marked down in the supermarket etc etc

I am always shocked when I inadvertantly end up at the supermarket at the wrong time....super reduction time. There are obviously people their who really do regularly do shopping at that time. I've even seen a physical fight over the grabbing and snatching....and people who just scoop it all up. Last time dh got excited because he could see steaks (of the well over £5 variety) being reduced to under a £1 (I can't remember exactly how much) and I sniggered while he patiently waited for people to choose somehting then let him in. Needless to say he came back empty handed.


TBH, shopping is tedious enough without fighting over whatever is reduced, especially when its crud not good stuff. And i9f I make effort to shop ethically, that includes my fellow shoppers IMO. I would no sooner elbow another shopper out of the way and hog all ''reduced bounty'' than I would run over someone's cat.

I do buy stuff when I see it reduced, put it in the freezer/cupboard and future plan around that. Its not that we always find it reduced when ever we want it its that we won't buy some stuff unless its reduced...even if we want it.

In fact, our best bargains actually are from higher end shops where we've shopped over generations and go in at the end of day. We're known NOT to be rude, pushy or shovey, and only to get very small treats there. As a result, people remember us and put things aside. DH got a whole stilton from one of the v. posh food shops that is frozen into slices, and I think we'll be eating it the christmas after next.


as for takeaway prices, I'm always amazed how CHEAPLY some people manage to buy it! Never my experience. (though we do get lots of leftovers.)

lostinrates

Gigervamp wrote: »

I also noticed she lists only 2 packets of pasta. How does she manage to stretch one packet between 7 people? I've found that 500g is about right for 4 of us.

I use 80 grams for a lunch (or lighter eater for supper), and 100 for a supper portion for me, and 100 for lunch or a course of a supper for dh, 125 if it were all we were having for supper. I have one of those spaghetti measures with a hole for a portion somewhere....

ladymarmalade

lostinrates wrote: »

I am always shocked when I inadvertantly end up at the supermarket at the wrong time....super reduction time. There are obviously people their who really do regularly do shopping at that time. I've even seen a physical fight over the grabbing and snatching....and people who just scoop it all up. Last time dh got excited because he could see steaks (of the well over £5 variety) being reduced to under a £1 (I can't remember exactly how much) and I sniggered while he patiently waited for people to choose somehting then let him in. Needless to say he came back empty handed.


TBH, shopping is tedious enough without fighting over whatever is reduced, especially when its crud not good stuff. And i9f I make effort to shop ethically, that includes my fellow shoppers IMO. I would no sooner elbow another shopper out of the way and hog all ''reduced bounty'' than I would run over someone's cat.

I totally agree with this...I simply do not have the time to make sure i hit the supermarkets at the right time to bag the bargains...plus me and my OH are of the ethos that fresh is best so we don't often freeze things, which we would have to in these instances.

I have taken my time to find local suppliers that I trust and whose produce are often cheaper than the supermarkets anyway...many of them even deliver to me in the evenings free of charge.....much easier than 'bargain barging'!

septemberblues

This pricing was done in 2009 on mumsnet, not 2011

Gigervamp

The thread is dated 13.7.11. Where did you get 2009?