What's in your trolley?

lushlifesaver

Our weekly list is:

12 bread rolls £1
net satsumas £1
pack of bananas £1
ham £2
cheese £1.50
milk £1
pink and whites £1 (2 packs)
crisps £1
chocolate £1
eggs £1

Any other needs appear as and when needed but thats usually once per month for most things if not every 6-8weeks

Mortonhalden

It is silly question to ask, that what is in my trolley. There are things likes of grocery items and some necessary things for home are carry out in trolley.

FairyPrincessk

Our trolley varies depending on the meal plan that week. However, a typical winter trolley has the following:

Porridge (once every other week, 1 KG) 79p
Bananas about 8 Not sure
Apples-for eating six £2 (OH is fussy)
Apples for cooking/putting in porridge--one bag under £1
Three to four servings of another fruit--whatever is cheap, more if it is on supersix. £2-3
One loaf of bread--around 70p
Coffee (once every other week) £2
Milk £1.69
Juice, orange £2 for 2L
Vegetables for cooking--usually one each of whatever is on supersix, plus around £3-4 worth of other veg.
Oven chips-£1 once per month
Fish or Chicken-alternate each week--£1.5-£3
Tuna .69
Tinned Tomatos around 2 tins average a week at about 30p
One toiletry item (soap, shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrushes etc) between 49p and £1 per week.
Jar or two of spices or herbs that are running low
Cleaning supplies about 1 per month


We also buy in bulk once every 3-5 months-
Three to Four kinds of vinegar usually £1 to £1.5 per bottle
Olive oil
Flour-plain, SR, white bread and brown bread
Sugar
Lentils
Cous Cous
Rice
Pasta
Tinned black beans
Tinned Kidney beans
Tinned Chickpeas
Toilet Roll
Butter (I try to pay no more than £1 per 250 gr. I buy when cheap and freeze)
1-2Kilos mince
1 Kilo sausage meat
Brown Sugar
Mustard, Mayo, Ketchup (we use lots of mustard in cooking, about one bottle of ketchup a year and about 3 bottles of mayo) I try to buy on offer as the unopened ones keep for ages so I can use multibuys
Jam we use more than a jar a month as OH eats toast as often as he can get away with


We spend about £35/ week for two and around £100 every 3-4 months on the bulk orders. We eat from scratch every night except friday when we have frozen fish and chips. My lunches are always leftovers and this term OH has free lunch.

E2006

We spend around £35-£40 per week. Sometimes less depending on what we already have in. This is for 3 of us, and includes breakfast, packed lunches and dinners as well as all toiletries etc.

Breakfast is always cereal, porridge or toast and on weekends either croissants or pancakes for a treat.

Lunches are sandwiches, fruit, yogurt, home made cake, biscuit or cereal bar.

Dinners include mince based meals (Chilli, bolognese, shepherds pie), salads, baked potatoes with various accompaniments, pastas, roast dinners, stirfry's, curry etc. This week shopping cost just under £30 because we are having rubber chicken - roast dinner first night, large chicken salad with crusty buns second night and chicken curry third, with 4 portions of chicken and veg soup for the freezer.

I always do my shopping in Aldi, with only the odd bits bought in Mr A. I found that when I used to shop in Mr A I spent way more than I do now at Aldi. I cook everything from scratch and bulk out meals with lentils, veg etc.

HTH

Butterfly_Brain

My trolley depends on my meal plan so I couldn't give you a definitive list.
Not forgetting that I replace items that I have used from my store cupboard as well:
But here are a few things that I usually always buy weekly:
Cornflakes
Porridge 75p 1kg
Eggs £1.35
Milk £3
Cheese £2
Garlic sausage 37p
Ham 59p
Plain flour 55p
Bread flour £2
Yeast 67p
Lard 39p
Bananas £2 market
Apples £2 market
Oranges £1 market
Potatoes 4lb £1 market
Super six items depending on what they have I usually do a meal plan to suit.
Mixed fruit jam 29p or marmalade 27p

Meadows

Sweetie83 wrote: »

Hi, I'm a newbie and there is every chance this has been asked before but I have been reading the grocery challenges with great interest and was amazed to read that some people only intend to spend £100 for a whole months shop! At the moment I spend around £240 to £300 per month but really want to spend less.

I know everyone's situations are different but I wondered if we could share a typical trolley? I do my weekly shop at Tesco for nothing other than convenience and mine would be....

Milk £3,
Bread £2.25,
Crackers 50p,
Soup £1.70,
Cream cheese 60p,
Veg £2,
Fruit £2.20,
Eggs £1.25,
cheese/tea bags (one every other week) £3.50,
Household £2.50 (excluding nappies),
loo roll £2.00,
Pudding for kids £1.30 (angle delight/jelly/custard etc)
Baking products £2.00 (Stork/icing sugar/sugar/flour etc/cocoa etc
Butter £2.00,
Breakfast £1.75,
Potatoes £1.60,
Treats each total £3.50 e.g. pack of biscuits/choc bars etc
squash/chips £2.00 (one every other week),
baby wipes 61p
.....and then I spend £18.00 on ingredients spefically for meals so for example most of my meals are about £3.50 to make.

TOTAL = approx £55 a week :eek:

I don't have a typical trolley as I buy what I need as I need it.
Yes we are all on varying budgets (or not) and to be honest I am not sure what you can get for £25 a week £100 a month, certainly not much in the way of fruit and vegetables!

I did a shop from Waitrose (my local Co-op is rubbish and expensive so cheap to online shop with free delivery & too cold to walk to the others with a 40 minute round trip not counting shopping time) the other day which mainly consisted of Fruit and Vegetables, some bubble bath, bread flour and a few other bits.
My bill came to £51.43 (free delivery) and around £38 of that was Fruit & Vegetables I am guessing most of this will be gone within a week.

As for other things like meat (I have a freeze full and tend to keep replenished when I see bargains or reduced fish and meat, cleaning products, store cupboard items etc. will be bought when needed using on offer and in bulk.
We don't eat junk food and seldom have desserts, we eat plenty of vegetables with meals and if we want something else we either eat fruit or dried fruit and nuts.

I would say my average main meals cost anything from 75p upwards per person, none of this is processed or premade, we eat around 100 - 150g of meat per person ish so a little goes a long way, we don't eat cheap cuts and have many meats (game etc.) or fish.
Amazing how cheap salmon can be when you buy by the whole side or whole fish and cut into portions.
A joint can be bought when on offer and then cut into two or three joints and still be big enough for the meal and sandwiches.

Edwardia

Most of the time my shopping is delivered in boxes (Abel & Cole, Riverford, Shorters Club) and bags (Ocado). Roughly I spend around $40-$50 with Ocado and $20 each with Abel & Cole and Riverford. About once a fortnight my mother drags me out to either Lidl and ASDA or Waitrose and Sainsbury's (my town) or in hers Budgens plus Sainsbury's or ASDA.

In Lidl my trolley would comprise organic Fairtrade bananas ($1) organic onions (67p), organic Farmhouse Cheddar, maybe organic carrots or tomatoes. I buy house plants here as always very good.

In ASDA organic Weetabix for OH (2.48) organic tinned tomatoes (75p) and EV olive oil (2.48) and perhaps organic or wild salmon fillets ( 2 for $4). Rarely any organic veg in my local ASDA but if there are any tomatoes, mushrooms or carrots will buy. I sometimes buy flowers too.

In Waitrose, YS cheese and organic fish and if I pick up more unusual veg cheaper I cancel it from other orders. OH likes their bakery organic baguettes (99p)

Sainsbury's is getting quite a big organic own brand range and if I'm lucky I can get lots of veg, meat, EV olive oil, dried herbs, all sorts of stuff. Sometimes even enough to cancel the Ocado order.

In Budgens I just get Suma peanut butter - only shop I know that does it.

My real life trolley is pretty boring really !

dasophster

I usually get most of our shopping if not all from one supermarket, usually get it delivered but sometimes go 'in real life'. Call me insane but I'm going to try ASDA next as they unblacklisted our postcode (for ages the housing assoc postcodes in this development were supposedly out of delivery area but those posh folk behind the gate were not!). They also mustn't be too bad in this area as I've seen a lot repeatedly ordering from them. Generally I order online from sainsburys. Ocado and Waitrose delivery are both terrible in this area, rude drivers, deliveries hours late, missing and damaged items in every order. Waitrose were great when they delivered from the store but when they started delivering from some big warehouse out in the sticks they rapidly went downhill.

Anyway our typical weekly list for us 6 is

High juice
Highland spring water
4x wholemeal seeded bread 800g
10x 6 pack of value or basics pitta bread-wouldn't be much cheaper to make
1-2x tubs of vitalite
1 tub marigold bouillon/stock powder
Whichever frozen veg needs replacing that week, usually have a good selection in
Cherry tomatoes
Cucumber
1-2 Value or basics bagged salad
Tinned fruit
Basics Ketchup (though one bottle lasts us 2-3 months)
Peanut butter
Bananas
Apples
Veggie burgers/bean burgers
Linda McCartney sausages
Tinned chickpeas and kidney beans
Tinned tomatoes (again only need to buy these every few months)
Carrots
Potatoes
Some type of greens depending on what is seasonal
Flour and other baking stuff on an as needed basis
Dried fruit
Frozen herbs and garlic
Spices (get from Asian aisle, much cheaper)
Oats
Some type of unsugared basic cereal this varies as the kids get sick of one thing after a few weeks
Kara/koko coconut milk
Own brand cola
Cleaning products, toiletries etc we rarely need to buy as we have a big stockpile

And every 2-3 weeks I buy vegan cheese and coconut yoghurt from either wholefoods market or other shops in London or I order online. Average weekly spend used to be £60 for everything but since the price of everything has gone up by an average of 50p in the past few months now its £85-£100

Xx

dasophster

I forgot cous cous, rice, pasta and quinoa though we tend to only buy these once every 3-4 months. Rice I get some obscure brand basmati, cheap but as good as if not better than, Tilda. Pasta the Sainsbury's basics one is totally ok, it's halfway between wholemeal and white so doesn't have that bleachy taste that some white supermarket own brand pasta has.

I make a lot of soup but I don't have a blender either, I've bought that many stick blenders in my time and they all ended up breaking after 3 months. I then bought a mid priced glass jug blender when we used to be Costco members and it lasted 3 years but then just packed up and died lol. I now have a hand operated food processor that is really good, sadly it doesn't blend anything but it chops very finely. I'm saving up to buy a real top of the range jug blender now, may take me a few years but I know I will really use it xx

[Deleted User]

Hi, theres only me atm, and i try and spend £60 per 4 weeks. I did go over last month by £6ish and in Dec/Jan challenge i bought lots of fresh meat and fish and froze it all so havent needed to top up those yet. Anyway heres my list for Jan/Feb...
Fruit and Veg, either yellow stickered (YS), A**i super six or on offer :-
Cress
Coleslaw
Stirfry
Greens
Beetroot
Swede x 2
Onions
Apricots
Peppers
Banana
Cauliflower
Carrots
Tomatoes
Potatoes i have already

Storecupboard :-
S/R flour on offer
Pasta Sauce reduced
Brown Sugar HB
Custard Powder
Dried Mixed Fruit
Golden Syrup on offer
Plain Flour on offer
Extra Virgin Olive Oil HB
Pasta Penne HB

Drinks :-
Capuccino Box YS
Diet Coke 8 YS
Almond Milk 3 Used coupons
Rice Dream Used Coupons
Wine x3 Used Coupons
Carte Noire on offer W

Cleaning :-
Lenor x4 Used Coupons
Daz x 2 YS
Furniture Polish YS Value
Toilet Roll Used Coupon
Washing Up Liquid Value Tesco
Bleach x 2 HB
Wash Up Pads 49p HB
Kitchen Roll £1.00 £1 land

Dairy :-
Cravendale Free with Coupons
Muller Greek yoghurts x 2 4pack on offer
Lurpak
Rice Pudding YS 4p
Eggs A**i
Anchor YS 3 x 95p for 500g

Bread :-
Olive Ciabatta YS 65p
Wholemeal Medium YS
Fruit Bread YS
Burgen YS
Rolls YS

Snacks:-
Nuts A**i
Biscuits HB
Cheddars HB
4 x raspberry turnovers YS
10 mini choc muffins YS

Meat :-
Beef Steaks YS
Croquette Meat YS

Toiletries :-
Shave Foam YS value
Always Ultra Used Coupon
Simple Shampoo HB
Simple Conditioner HB
Toothrbrush HB
E45 cream Coupon

Freebees :-
Choc a Blok x 4 hot choc drinks
Milk with coupons

All came to £66
Edited to add, ive enough porridge and cereal and fruit juices to last me a couple of months.