Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

sss555s

Wheezy wrote: »

Friday is food shopping day for us also. And on Fridays we barely cook. We call it our "freestyling day". You just make up your personal menu for the evening while going through the supermarket. One of my favourites is shrimp salad with tomatoes and sweetcorn with breaded scampis as a side.

That has put me in the mood for a Tesco prawn salad for lunch

Is it worth going out of my way to Tesco just for that. Hmm maybe.

Wheezy wrote: »

Did she mention she was going somewhere? Another one I'm missing is tomterm8, he always had something interesting to say.

I don't think she ever mentioned if she was going away until she was back, probably for security reasons.

sss555s

LydiaJ wrote: »

Oh yes. Must go now and deliver some forms to DS & DD's school that we forgot this morning, then pick up a few bits for lunch (friend that was going to come for coffee has been delayed so I said I'd give her lunch when she gets here) and do a quick tidy up. What I really ought to be doing today is marking my A-level coursework.

Email wheezy and I some and we'll mark them for you

I've been helping DD revise for her "nabs" I quite enjoy it but things are often done differently now so I have to be careful not to confuse her.

I should get going too and I will pop in to see my mum.

You will just have to send them all to wheezy now :rotfl:

chewmylegoff

Sunday is shopping day, usually around 3.30pm when we suddenly realise the supermarket is only open for another 30 mins.

CKhalvashi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Sunday is shopping day, usually around 3.30pm when we suddenly realise the supermarket is only open for another 30 mins.

Mine’s normally done on a Weds, as it’s the only day we’re both off

Percy1983

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Sunday is shopping day, usually around 3.30pm when we suddenly realise the supermarket is only open for another 30 mins.

Thats one way to save money! :rotfl:

lostinrates

I do not have shopping day. When i am organised i do appx ten day meal plans that have froom for manouvre and inspiration to stretch to a fortnight or so. So i go to shop between weekly and if i am really lucky i can stretch four to six weeks. I feel v. Chuffed when i have done that, and usually crack not because of need but want. If things got truely desperate there is all that stilton in the freezer the size of a small country.
So, when i need the supermarket i can time it to be when i am near one for other reasons.....there is the garden centre supermarket, the animal feed supermarket, the petrol supermarket, the i need to go further from home so my head can breath supermarket or the dh coming to a station further afield supermarket. Best of all is the supermarket in salisbury, a waitrose so huge that it has a mini john lewis withing, not the other way araound. That is also the one i buy least at, because u never get there when there are good whoopsies, but i do enjoy browsing there. All different ones, so i also rotate between them, so if i am the one that does the best x or the cheapest y i stock up from there for a few months if it is tinned or dried goods, plus get top see the clothes different ones have, or the seasonal offerings.

chewmylegoff

Percy1983 wrote: »

Thats one way to save money! :rotfl:

It certainly isn't! Because by the time you get there you only really have 10 mins to do everything you shop in a blind panic, just chucking any old thing into the trolley, not planning meals properly, and buying stuff you don't need. We never, ever, manage to do it for less than £50/week and it's usually more like £75.

Wheezy_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

It certainly isn't! Because by the time you get there you only really have 10 mins to do everything you shop in a blind panic, just chucking any old thing into the trolley, not planning meals properly, and buying stuff you don't need. We never, ever, manage to do it for less than £50/week and it's usually more like £75.

We won't be seeing you in any BBC reports about professional shoppers then.

SingleSue

I do a Monday to Friday shop on a Monday and then my weekend shop on a Friday.

zagubov

DW does a shop at the weekend and we live on it for the rest of the week. If we forget anythging I do a last-minute shop on Sunday afternoon at 4.30 (some stores near us stay open till 5PM) I'd love to do the main shopping but I'd just buy rubbish TBH.

There's a post on another thread with a suggested menu for a week based on a limited range of essential ingredients every day.