Cheapest and most expensive items in your grocery shop?

kezlou

In our house cheese is the most expensive thing, my youngest can easily go through a kilo by himself :eek:
theys a saying in our house, if theres cheese in the house then everythings alright in the world!

Other than cheese then its decaf coffee, decaf tea, mayonaise and sandwich meat.

Cheapest things definitely milk, noodles, pasta,yoghurt's and sweet pickle.

malamay

I would say our most expensive item is chicken breasts. I try to get them at £1 or less per piece, and tend to buy in bulk at the grocery store.

Cheapest item would either be a YS item or misprice, but for everyday items maybe value rice mix, a tin of mushy peas, or other veg.

VJsmum

Fresh meat for me. I buy from our local butcher who source locally. It is fantastic quality but not cheap.

It lasts a long time though as there is no waste and i can streeeetch it.

Also, we don't eat meat every day.

I pay more for coffee than i need to cos I am fussy about the quality of it

Cheapest?

probably the wafer thin chicken and ham that DS likes in his sandwiches - 50p a punnet

Cheapskate

Fresh meat is our dearest outlay, too, usually from our local butcher or farm shop, although I'm sometimes lucky enough to get YS organic meat for the same as "normal" meat.

Our cheapest things are basics-type products: biccies, tinned/frozen veg, yogourts, etc., which balance out the dearer things.

A xo

maman

raphanius wrote: »

most expensive - probably cheese. its a constant battle of wits between consumer and supermarket to find cheese below £6 a kilo. its getting like printer ink for being ridiculous.
least expensive - value chicken noodles, value pasta, chick peas and dried beans. anything unhealthy (sweets, crisps) seems to always be on offer in the supermarkets too.

If you have a Farmfoods nearby they have own brand Mature Cheddar for £5 a kilo and another brand which I think was even cheaper. Good, long dates on them too.

I agree that it's not so much the initial cost as how much per portion that I think about. We drink very little coffee but although an expensive in outlay per cup it's cheap enough. Per kg, it's probably meat or fish that cost the most. Cheapest thing I buy is value stock cubes or mushy peas from Aldi.

I try not to buy too many crisps:( but as a treat I'm prepared to pay £1 for 150g. If I can't find ones I like for less than that I go without.

daisiegg

Why has no one mentioned wine?! :rotfl:

Yep, just checked my last receipt and the most expensive thing was wine. The cheapest was 500g of carrots at 65p. There are actually very few things under £1. Oops!

maman

daisiegg wrote: »

Why has no one mentioned wine?! :rotfl:

Yep, just checked my last receipt and the most expensive thing was wine. The cheapest was 500g of carrots at 65p. There are actually very few things under £1. Oops!

I did think of it and wondered if a £5-£6 bottle of wine (£7/8 per litre?) was more expensive per portion than meat or fish at £15 per kilo or more.

I know which I enjoy more!:D:D:D

Possession

If you can get to Aldi, their frozen chicken breasts at £3.99 are far far better than the Tesco equivalent and you get more too. Alternatively, if you have room in the freezer to make a bulk order a butcher should always give you a trade discount for a bulk order.
Cheese is pricey for us too, so I only buy when it's half price and buy it in bulk.
Cheapest is probably the Aldi chicken noodles my DD has as a special treat, or Tesco value toothpaste.
We don't buy wine anymore as we stopped drinking alcohol in January - that has made shopping bills a lot cheaper.
EDIT: not forgetting Mr T Value custard & rice pudding for emergency consumption (good zombie ammunition).

daisiegg

maman wrote: »

I did think of it and wondered if a £5-£6 bottle of wine (£7/8 per litre?) was more expensive per portion than meat or fish at £15 per kilo or more.

I know which I enjoy more!:D:D:D

Unfortunately we don't buy £5-£6 bottles of wine I so don't belong here!

D&DD

lol I was getting worried that we were all teetotallers Daisie :rotfl:

I drink once in the blue moon now (had my fun when I was younger and could handle the hangovers!!) so thats lucky

Thanks for the cheese tips I have Farmfoods and Iceland no home bargains sadly though.
I need to have a go at making the soft cheese with the kit I got from Lakeland that'll help a bit but I can't live without my cheddar,maybe I should invest in a cow and a cheese press *kidding*..(if I had the space you know I would tho don't you) :whistle:

I did used to split a lamb with my parents from the butchers a while ago will have to enquire about that again too thankyou.

I'm not sure if we have an Aldi near here still will have a google!