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  • nmlc
    nmlc Posts: 4,788 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    Morning everyone

    Bread, milk, squash, toilet rolls and fruit/veg. Always seem to be buying extra of all these.

    nmlc x
    WEIGHTLOSS SINCE JUNE 2009 - 5 ST 2LB
  • Milk
    Fruit (most often eaten is bananas and apples)
    Ham and baked beans these are eaten together and replaced together
    Wet dog food
    Eggs
    If you dont know where you are going... Any road will take you there :rotfl:
  • kboss2010
    kboss2010 Posts: 1,466 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    For me, it's:

    1. Eggs (15 a week at least)
    2. Toilet roll (don't know what my flatmate does with it!)
    3. Tinned tomatoes
    4. Mince
    5. Butter (a small pack of lurpak lasts my OH 2 days!)
    “I want to be a glow worm, A glow worm's never glum'Coz how can you be grumpy, when the sun shines out your bum?" ~ Dr A. TappingI'm finding my way back to sanity again... but I don't really know what I'm gonna do when I get there~ LifehouseWhat’s fur ye will make go by ye… but also what’s not fur ye, ye can jist scroll on by!
  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    When i'm cooking onions & tinned tomatoes seem to be at the base of everything. For lunch it's lots of cheese butties. For bread it's buying flour. Then i suppose milk and eggs. Next would be apples & oranges and frozen veg.
    Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
    What it may grow to in time, I know not what.

    Daniel Defoe: 1725.
    1. Yogurt
    2. Milk
    3. Tons of veg
    4. Pasta
    5. Fruits like Banana, apple, pineapple
  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 11,210 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Greek yogurt
    Cauliflowers
    Onions
    Tinned toms
    Salad

    We eat a low carb diet and use cauliflower to substitute for pasta rice and spuds so we eat a lot of cauliflowers!
    Make £2025 in 2025
    Prolific £617.02, Octopoints £5.20, TCB £398.58, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £60, Shopmium £26.60, Everup £24.91 Zopa CB £30
    Total (4/9/25) £1573.21/£2025 77%

    Make £2024 in 2024
    Prolific £907.37, Chase Int £59.97, Chase roundup int £3.55, Chase CB £122.88, Roadkill £1.30, Octopus ref £50, Octopoints £70.46, TCB £112.03, Shopmium £3, Iceland £4, Ipsos £20, Misc Sales £55.44
    Total £1410/£2024 70%

    Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023  128.8%




  • mobo1980
    mobo1980 Posts: 368 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    edited 22 October 2014 at 8:45AM
    1) milk
    2)eggs
    3)breadcakes
    4)yogurts
    5)toilet rolls

    Mobo xx
    CC1-£1729.53
    CC2-£4323.00
    LOAN-£14,519.05
    TOTAL DEBT £20,571.58 :eek:
    Then there's the mortgage :o
  • snoozer
    snoozer Posts: 3,840 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    1. Milk
    2. Bread
    3. Bananas
    4. Shower gel (DH uses loads)
    5. Water (I know, but I really dislike the taste of our tapwater)
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