Eat Well For Less Series 3

candygirl

JIL wrote: »

I have a confession to make, a regular staple in my shopping is a big bag of Aldi every day grated cheese and a pack of Aldi everyday cheese slices.
I use the grated in cooking and toppings and the slices on toast and in sandwiches. It tastes ok to me.

If I was eating cheese with crackers, which I rarely do I would buy it in block.

I get those too, as well as the feta n camembert.Am a bit of a cheeseaholic :rotfl:

PasturesNew

JIL wrote: »

I have a confession to make, ...

Many people do the same, but there's so much 'pressure' put on people to instantly produce gorgeous looking, organic, locally produced food, from artisan providers ... knowing the food miles and all the nutrients in everything ..... that most just stay quiet.

I just eat what I fancy and I buy cr4p I fancy ... and then I post here just to show those quiet lurkers that it's not just them eating cr4p ... and it's to be applauded

Well done for speaking out and not pretending you only buy the organic ranges hand-imported from goat-herding artisans in the Andes, supporting the Fair Trade movement

suki1964

JIL wrote: »

I have a confession to make, a regular staple in my shopping is a big bag of Aldi every day grated cheese and a pack of Aldi everyday cheese slices.
I use the grated in cooking and toppings and the slices on toast and in sandwiches. It tastes ok to me.

If I was eating cheese with crackers, which I rarely do I would buy it in block.

Lol

I buy cheese triangles. The tubs may be cheaper but for me it's a guilty pleasure so the foil wrapped triangles last longer

No one should feel guilty about what they buy. These forums should be about helping, showing others how they themselves can feed 5000 on a few fish a a loaf, but not to belittle or berate those that can't


I love getting a weeks groceries in for less then £30. I'm proud of the fact I can. But hey, do I mention I smoke like a trooper?

Hell if I gave up the smokes I could eat fillet steak every day ( only I don't actually like it) lol


I love PN's posts. She's so honest . Go far enough back on the "what's for dinner tonight" thread, and you will find pics of mine showing the crisp butties and glass ( bottle) of red wine


Oh and I'm avoiding lidl next week, some reason they gone all veggie and organic :eek:

catkins

JIL wrote: »

I have a confession to make, a regular staple in my shopping is a big bag of Aldi every day grated cheese and a pack of Aldi everyday cheese slices.
I use the grated in cooking and toppings and the slices on toast and in sandwiches. It tastes ok to me.

If I was eating cheese with crackers, which I rarely do I would buy it in block.

I buy cheese slices for my dog but don't like the taste of them myself

JIL

Those cheese slices I buy.....here's a further confession. I love them in a sandwich with Heinz sandwich spread. That's my lunch at work a couple of times a week.


Heinz sandwich spread bought in bulk from the pound shop.

PasturesNew

suki1964 wrote: »

I love getting a weeks groceries in for less then £30. I'm proud of the fact I can. But hey, do I mention I smoke like a trooper?

Hell if I gave up the smokes I could eat fillet steak every day ( only I don't actually like it) lol


I love PN's posts. She's so honest .

Last line's my favourite

£30? You're rolling in it. Most weeks I manage just £10 of cr4p. Breakfast this morning has been two poached eggs on two bits of toast. 17p for that!

I have the same dirty little habit that you do, but I do it "a bit cheaper" as I get "Make Your Own" cigs, where you buy a machine (once) and baccy and "tubes" which are rolled papers with a filter attached. Slide them into a "proper fag packet" and nobody's any the wiser if I'm out. £15/week.

I spend £10/week on food and sweeties .... in order to fund my £15/week fag habit

PasturesNew

JIL wrote: »

Those cheese slices I buy.....here's a further confession. I love them in a sandwich with Heinz sandwich spread. That's my lunch at work a couple of times a week.


Heinz sandwich spread bought in bulk from the pound shop.

I gleefully bought the Heinz once .... only to discover it's got little bits of chopped gherkin in it. And that gherkin/pickle(?) really spoilt the taste for me. If they removed the gherkin I'd be up that aisle like a rat up a drainpipe

Even now, some 10+ years later, I still mournfully pass it on the shelves, thinking "I wish you didn't have gherkin in"

PasturesNew

suki1964 wrote: »

I'm avoiding lidl next week, some reason they gone all veggie and organic :eek:

Nobody's been listening to me .... but I've been "moaning" about the gentrification of Lidl for some time. Everything "posh" they stock means they remove something I eat/used to eat ...

I noticed they'd sneaked in some "posher fish fingers" the other week - I'm expecting they'll soon remove the cheaper line.

This week, if I go in there, I'd be after this week's specials: some steak cubes or meatballs to lob in the general direction of the slow cooker with some "random stuff I fancy that's in the cupboard in a tin".

lessonlearned

PN you do make me laugh.

I have some "dirty secrets" - not fags though.

Unfortunately most of mine involve bread and I can't eat grains - IBS and GERD.

Yesterday I had cheese on toast for lunch. Fairly innocuous one would think. I was doubled up in pain all afternoon.

My favourite......crisp sandwiches, I love them. Alas they don't love me back.

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

Nobody's been listening to me .... but I've been "moaning" about the gentrification of Lidl for some time. Everything "posh" they stock means they remove something I eat/used to eat ...

Not sure which posh item has replaced the Lidl piccallili [sp?] but it has vanished form my locla Lidl, and I loved it, rammed full of veg stuff and not just watery yellow liquid with a few meagre veg floating around, like some have