Single and shopping

Thumper7

I am totally useless at shopping for food be it online or in the supermarket.

I never seem to get it right. I don't think the fact that I hate cooking helps nor that I don't have a microwave.

I have just received my Tesco online order and i'm shocked at what I have received, this is my order (I wont list it all)

Butter
Melon slices
sliced ham
2 x salad bowl
Low fat dressing
salad cream
bread
3 x jars coffee
cat food
cat treats
cat litter
toilet roll
cleaning stuff
2 x boxes of beer

Now all the above added up to over £100. I did order pizzas but they never arrived. Looks like beer for dinner lol.

Southend1

Lol that sounds like me when I tried online shopping a few years back!

I use aldi now, it's dead easy to shop because there's only one brand of each thing.

With online shopping I always ended up with way too much random stuff or nothing to eat at all.

PasturesNew

I've never bought food online. I just wander in and "see what they've got/see what I fancy".

paulineb_2

Im single but I dont mind food shopping, I stay well away from tesco apart from necessities, I do my major shop at aldi. I cook from scratch and believe me it took me 15 years plus to get into that habit. You dont need a microwave to cook decent meals, I cook most of mine with my cooker.

Theres loads of recipes on this site, google is also your friend, you'll find thousands of recipes on there, some you can make with 3 or 4 ingredients.

If you can master a few pasta dishes, a couple of curries and some rice dishes you are absolutely halfway there.

I have a mate who always wanted to be a chef, hes not but he loves to cook, I remember emailing him about 2 years ago saying I wanted to make a curry and I was too terrified, these days I cook almost every night and havent bought a ready meal in over a year.

I also cant remember the last time I did a £100 shop. I have cats as well and aldi are also cheaper than tesco for their cat food.

pigpen

write a list of what you eat over a few weeks.. break it down into a shopping list and buy that.

You haven't actually bought any food in that lot what were you expecting to eat???

No protein, no veg, no fruit other than slices of melon which are expensive and don't keep. No cereals, no carbs of the potatoes/pasta/rice variety.

And the beer will no doubt have been a fair chunk of that £100

paulineb_2

Op hasnt listed everything they bought

Op, as I said before Id suggest you get a few basic meals you can cook, they dont need to be masterpieces and cost them.

I make curry, risotto, stroganoff, you also cant go wrong with soup as far as Im concerned, I can also make a few different pasta dishes, ratatouille from scratch, loads of things.

Ive got a lot of cookbooks that Ive acquired over the years. And its only in the last year or two Ive started using them regularly, but sometimes I just cook without a recipe in front of me

Theres a site called supercook where you type in what you have and it throws up what you can cook.

I dont use this site really because I like to do my own thing, but

https://www.agirlcalledjack.com that will give you a number of recipes and they are costed.

Part of the reason I cook a lot is that I have very little spare cash to play with so I need to keep food bills down.

I can feed me and the cats and theres 6 of them, for about £30 quid a week, easily.

good_advice

Hiya, I did a Tesco home delivery this week. The first in a long time.
I used the "My shopping" web page first and they send the order on to Tesco.

x3 coffee sounds like ALOT OF COFFEE. In this hot weather you need to drink pints of water as well as beer.

Spending on groceries is so easy to over spend.
I liked the £ calculater so I could see how much , when to much decide what to take off my list.

My fridge is now full of fruit, veg and salard.

Thumper7

I do have some stuff like rice, pasta and cereal in the cupboard and also chicken, chops in the freezer.

Hell forgot to get milk, good job I take my coffee black.

I hate cooking, actually I hate it with a passion. I've always found that half way through cooking that I don't want it.

I sometimes think, ok I will have say, spaghetti for dinner, but when dinner time comes I just don't fancy it at all.

PS Paulineb, you wanna come and live with me, I'll do the dishes...honest

paulineb_2

You dont need to love cooking to be able to cook. Im no chef, but I can cook a meal in 20 mins or less easily.

And tbh you can always cook something and change your mind later, but a lot of things you can cook, you can freeze, so even if you think, no I dont want that, freeze it and have it another day

Health wise, its much better to cook from scratch, anything thats a micro dinner will generally be full of salt, sugar and also overpriced

My mum isnt the best cook in the world but shes getting there.

tiger_eyes

Thumper7 wrote: »

I hate cooking, actually I hate it with a passion. I've always found that half way through cooking that I don't want it.

I sometimes think, ok I will have say, spaghetti for dinner, but when dinner time comes I just don't fancy it at all.

Have you considered batch cooking? Making tons of a particular meal and portioning out the leftovers to put in the freezer? After a few weeks you build up a variety of homemade frozen meals that you can pick and choose from. Nuke it in the microwave for a few minutes and you can eat it before your enthusiasm wears off! Plus if you did cook a ton of spaghetti and didn't fancy it by the time it was done, you could put it all in the freezer and just take out something else and nuke it. Sorted!

paulineb_2

Thumper7 wrote: »

I do have some stuff like rice, pasta and cereal in the cupboard and also chicken, chops in the freezer.

Hell forgot to get milk, good job I take my coffee black.

I hate cooking, actually I hate it with a passion. I've always found that half way through cooking that I don't want it.

I sometimes think, ok I will have say, spaghetti for dinner, but when dinner time comes I just don't fancy it at all.

PS Paulineb, you wanna come and live with me, I'll do the dishes...honest

Ha.

Now theres an offer to think over