Live on a tenner a week ???

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I too will be doing my second shop of the month today.I know it should come to around £12-15 roughly but I still have such a lot in stock and I am trying to use up as much as I can rather than buy in more.
Mostly it will be fresh fruit and veg and a couple of odds and ends that I have run out of.

Frugally onwards chums :):)

JackieO xx

honeythewitch

Smoosh wrote: »

So...the trip the other supermarket was well worth it and we got a big bag of shopping for £4. It was all very civilised and the person reducing the food was lovely and made some funny jokes (compared to my usual supermarket where they look at you like you're dirt for buying YS!). Not quite as good as HOWMUCH's bargains, but it renewed my faith a bit! I got a huge bag of carrots for 14p, so I'm going to make some soup tomorrow

I am surprised and disgusted by how many supermarket assistants are nasty to the people waiting for the ys food.
I know it must be annoying to have everyone crowd around you, but this could be avoided by pricing behind the scenes.

In Asda last week we were discussing with each other what we were waiting for.
I said " oh I am hoping for for a load of raspberries to make jam" and someone else said she wanted the boxed salads because she didnt feel like cooking etc.

The assistant actually moved what everyone wanted out of the way and didnt reduce it at all. The shop was about to close so I presume it was all thrown out.
:mad:
Next week I am going to double bluff him and pretend to hate all fruit and adore the revolting dips.

happydays89

honeythewitch wrote: »

I am surprised and disgusted by how many supermarket assistants are nasty to the people waiting for the ys food.


Our local tesco takes everything away to the store room and does the final reductions there,lots of people hanging around ready to grab stuff and they barely have the chance to put it back on the shelves.i have always bought reduced food but a lot more people are doing it now and I refuse to fight for it.The other night I went to the hot chicken counter to see if any had been reduced and the assistant said I am just about to reduce them if you want any,but you have to be quick because the scavengers are out in force tonight,she then proceeded to tell me how she thought it was terrible that people hung around for the scraps.I was to gobsmacked to comment,I just said thanks and took the two chickens that should of been £5.99 each,that we're now 40p each.

HOWMUCH

Well done Happydays89 on the £5.99 chickens for 40p. I popped into the co-op near my DD today as I only had to drop DGS at nursery and not stay to look after him. I'd previously gone in there earlier on in the week and got some YS items 75% off reductions and that was about noon. Well today I popped in nothing in the veg section and nothing we fancied in the chill section, so off to the freezer section for the £5 deal. I spotted some Christmas Blend ground coffee TOH £3.89 YS to 99p for 227g dated March 2017. I'm still using up the Costa Coffee I got YS in MrM's last year which has April 2016 date. So I took the 2 bags of coffee and had a little look I case they had more but alas no, so I paid my £5.98 with the £1 voucher off £5 spend I got on Monday from my other YS bargains.

Smoosh

honeythewitch wrote: »

I am surprised and disgusted by how many supermarket assistants are nasty to the people waiting for the ys food.
I know it must be annoying to have everyone crowd around you, but this could be avoided by pricing behind the scenes.

In Asda last week we were discussing with each other what we were waiting for.
I said " oh I am hoping for for a load of raspberries to make jam" and someone else said she wanted the boxed salads because she didnt feel like cooking etc.

The assistant actually moved what everyone wanted out of the way and didnt reduce it at all. The shop was about to close so I presume it was all thrown out.
:mad:
Next week I am going to double bluff him and pretend to hate all fruit and adore the revolting dips.

My local supermarket (T) does take everything out the back, and to be honest, I think that makes the situation worse! Everyone crowds them when they bring the food back out and scrambles for it. In the one I went to yesterday (A) they were reducing it in the aisle and it was much better because everyone could see it and took what they wanted as it got reduced, rather than fighting over it when it came out.

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Spent just over £15.00 for my groceries this week and only the second shop of February made some lovely soup this afternoon.
1 head of celery (rather bendy as I had forgotten it was at the bottom of the fridge)
diced onions (already diced and in the freezer)
1 tin tomato's (y/s 20p)
1 tin chick peas (y/s 10p)
decent handful of red lentils (from my store cupboard)
2 wrinkled carrots peeled and diced (also forgotten from the bottom of the fridge)
2 stock cubes
a good teaspoon of lazy garlic
a hefty dollop of sweet chilli sauce
a teaspoon of turmeric powder
two litres of water

Chucked the whole lot in the big saucepan and brought to the boil ,then turned down and simmered for 20 minutes just bubbling.

Whacked most of the veg into the blender whizzed it up and returned it to the pan.Brought it up to the boil again giving it a good stir, and just had a little taste and its gorgeous.

Just jugged it up into two big containers and that's my 'soup of the week' which I will have either as a starters before dinner in the evening, or with cheese and crackers for lunch.

The celery was just starting to get a bit bendy and definitely past its best and the tin of tomato's and chick peas were Y/S ones that cost together 30p, everything else I had in the store cupboard I guess costing it out probably around 80p perhaps for enough soup for the whole of next week. very tasty and filling for pennies :):)

VfM4meplse

Smoosh wrote: »

My local supermarket (T) does take everything out the back, and to be honest, I think that makes the situation worse! Everyone crowds them when they bring the food back out and scrambles for it.

YS is great but dignity is priceless

My fridge is now surprisingly empty after 2 weeks of looking choccer. I could easily make the contents stretch until Wednesday - when my mum comes to stay, daren't have her in a home of slim pickings - but I think the problem is that I would get a bit bored as it lacks any instant snacks (we are not counting the fruit and carrots). Its all ingredients and milk, plus a busy freezer but I guess I could bake a cake if I am desperado for a treat with my afternoon tea.

Eta: I've just caught up on Wednesday's interview Ilona - disappointingly short, and Vanessa didn't really seem to be listening to you! She was far more receptive to the caller after you, who rather squashed any objections. Plus the other listener responses were very encouraging!

Smoosh

VfM4meplse wrote: »

YS is great but dignity is priceless

My fridge is now surprisingly empty after 2 weeks of looking choccer. I could easily make the contents stretch until Wednesday - when my mum comes to stay, daren't have her in a home of slim pickings - but I think the problem is that I would get a bit bored as it lacks any instant snacks (we are not counting the fruit and carrots). Its all ingredients and milk, plus a busy freezer but I guess I could bake a cake if I am desperado for a treat with my afternoon tea.

Eta: I've just caught up on Wednesday's interview Ilona - disappointingly short, and Vanessa didn't really seem to be listening to you! She was far more receptive to the caller after you, who rather squashed any objections. Plus the other listener responses were very encouraging!

I agree! If it turns into a scramble then I don't get involved! It's a shame really, 1 person getting grabby seems to turn everyone else the same way.

I haven't made my soup yet, planning making it this evening so we can have some for dinner - the freezer's very full, so the less that needs to be frozen the better! JackieO - your soup sounds delicious!

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Just had some for lunch with cheese and crackers and its very yummy.

Dinner tonight at youngest DDs, think its leg of lamb my son-in-law does a great one with rosemary and red wine sauce

NewShadow

I'm trying to get back into meal planning/budgeting as I've really let it slip since christmas (not good for my waistline or my wallet).

I've decided to budget about £25 a week for everything (includes anything I grab from work or a coffee with a friend, so I have to really want it) and to mimic JackieO (the sincerest form of flattery) in taking it out in cash at the start of each week.

I'm cheating a little as I have a huge amount of stuff in the freezer, but I was very pleased with my little wander today. I went to co-op for about 11.15 (they open @ 11 on Sunday):

Co-op
6 x 500g packs of mixed diced veg - pots, cabbage, carrot, onion, swede - £1 YS to 19p = £6 > £1.14
3 x 1 litre skimmed UHT - £1.15 YS to 49p = £3.45 > £1.47
4 x branston reduced salt baked beans - 70p YS to 26p = £2.80 > £1.04
2 x smedly mushy peas (not YS but hidden behind the more expensive peas) - 18p = 36p

Lidl
600g pears - £1.09
Huge galia melon - £1.20
8 bananas - £1.01
c.12 clementines - 79p
6 Bread rolls - 45p

The diced veg will easily make two servings of (leftover) chicken casserole/stew, 3 servings of soup with a cheese roll, and two servings of root veg mash (served with mushy peas and faggots).

I went to lidl for fruit because the offerings in my local coop are a little basic and a tad expensive (pears @ £1.50 a bag), and bought enough fruit for the week at work.

In total, spent £8.55, but saved £8.60 on my three YS items alone.

:T