It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

Floss

Pollycat said:

Aren't we supposed to be getting this thread back on topic...?

Cost of living and price of stuff.

Not chatting about family or discussing what is wrong with the way people cook/eat nowadays. 🤷

Nuff said. Wait & watch the thread get closed if it carries on.

Floss

Polly, where did you get your bargain bacon from, was it B&M?

euronorris

Crisps aren't cheap, they're convenient (and tasty). Those needing to cutback will already have reduced/cut out spending on things like crisps and chocolate. I'm not sure why anyone would assume otherwise.

Anyway, anyone seen any good food bargains this weekend/today? Or managed to grab a good yellow stickered item (or 3)?

Pollycat

Floss said:

Polly, where did you get your bargain bacon from, was it B&M?

Yes, it was B&M.
I did sort through a few packs to get what looked the best.

Also worth looking in Tesco as they also do a cooking bacon pack, although I find that there seems to be quite a lot of smoked in their packs and we don't like smoked anything.

Pollycat

euronorris said:

Crisps aren't cheap, they're convenient (and tasty). Those needing to cutback will already have reduced/cut out spending on things like crisps and chocolate. I'm not sure why anyone would assume otherwise.

Anyway, anyone seen any good food bargains this weekend/today? Or managed to grab a good yellow stickered item (or 3)?

Poundland do 5 packs of Seabrooks crinkle cut crisps for £1.00. Plain, cheese & onion, Worcestershire sauce.
Aldi have put the price of their hand cooked multi pack of crisps up to £1.49 for 6 (according to a different thread).

Floss

I've noticed a lot of folk food shopping in B&M, although my local one is having a re-jig & they've moved the freezers 🤷‍♀️

euronorris

Pollycat said:

euronorris said:

Crisps aren't cheap, they're convenient (and tasty). Those needing to cutback will already have reduced/cut out spending on things like crisps and chocolate. I'm not sure why anyone would assume otherwise.

Anyway, anyone seen any good food bargains this weekend/today? Or managed to grab a good yellow stickered item (or 3)?

Poundland do 5 packs of Seabrooks crinkle cut crisps for £1.00. Plain, cheese & onion, Worcestershire sauce.
Aldi have put the price of their hand cooked multi pack of crisps up to £1.49 for 6 (according to a different thread).

I'd have to pay £2-3 to park to visit my local Poundland, so I don't bother unless I'm in town for another reason. Though there is a new one opening up nearby in April, with free parking. But a pack of 6 doesn't go very far in a family, so often more than one pack is bought etc and often ends an expensive 'extra' as the filling main meals, and fruit snacks have to come first.  

I really don't like Aldi or Lidl's own crisps. But my gosh £1.49 for 6 is quite pricey really. I guess because they are 'hand cooked' ones?

It will be spag bol for us tonight (from a previously made batch), as it's swimming lesson night which eats into evening time quite a lot. Spag bol is a nice quick option for us.

I saw that Sainsburys had reduced the price of their gala apples last weekend. Which I didn't see until AFTER I'd bought some in Aldi lol

Nelliegrace

I think the 10% off groceries at Asda with the Blue Light Card finishes at the end of March. I shall be checking my store cupboard to see if there is anything which is going to run low.

We are just under budget of £30 a week for two on the March Grocery Challenge. Asda were slow at labelling the yellow stickered items on Saturday at the local store. We did get 6 rotisserie chicken legs for 36p and I saved the half a cup of dripping in the bag, stripped the meat, and made stock for soup with the bones.

People are not to blame if they have not had the opportunity to learn to cook. It is very sad. A lot of the cookery programmes are just for entertainment or they assume the viewer has a basic level of skill. 

Pollycat

euronorris said:

Pollycat said:

euronorris said:

Crisps aren't cheap, they're convenient (and tasty). Those needing to cutback will already have reduced/cut out spending on things like crisps and chocolate. I'm not sure why anyone would assume otherwise.

Anyway, anyone seen any good food bargains this weekend/today? Or managed to grab a good yellow stickered item (or 3)?

Poundland do 5 packs of Seabrooks crinkle cut crisps for £1.00. Plain, cheese & onion, Worcestershire sauce.
Aldi have put the price of their hand cooked multi pack of crisps up to £1.49 for 6 (according to a different thread).

I'd have to pay £2-3 to park to visit my local Poundland, so I don't bother unless I'm in town for another reason. Though there is a new one opening up nearby in April, with free parking. But a pack of 6 doesn't go very far in a family, so often more than one pack is bought etc and often ends an expensive 'extra' as the filling main meals, and fruit snacks have to come first.  

I really don't like Aldi or Lidl's own crisps. But my gosh £1.49 for 6 is quite pricey really. I guess because they are 'hand cooked' ones?

It will be spag bol for us tonight (from a previously made batch), as it's swimming lesson night which eats into evening time quite a lot. Spag bol is a nice quick option for us.

I saw that Sainsburys had reduced the price of their gala apples last weekend. Which I didn't see until AFTER I'd bought some in Aldi lol

We are a family of 2 and a pack of 6 crisps would probably last us a couple of weeks as we only tend to have them when we have a sandwich for lunch and not always then.

Aldi hand cooked crisps are similar to Kettle crisps.
In Tesco, they are a whopping £1.95 for a pack of 5 (clubcard price £1.50).

In bolognaise, I sometimes use part beef and part pork mince.
Pork is cheaper.
Some restaurants we've been to in Greece use a mix of pork and beef for their meatballs, they're very tasty and a good texture.
I believe Aldi now sell packs of pork/beef mince but I bet you can do the mix cheaper yourself.

I cook a shepherds pie base using pork mince (or turkey or chicken).
I usually add mushrooms and sometimes courgettes if I get some YS or they are on offer.
I add a tin of chopped tomatoes and ground cumin & coriander & hot paprika to make it a bit spicier.

I usually have some mashed swede or carrot or parsnip or turnip (shockingly expensive now - I think they are an old-fashioned veg overtaken by swede which is much cheaper) in the freezer and the addition of that to the mashed potato topping is very nice (and healthy)

Nelliegrace

I have a rack for holding wafer thin slices of potato to cook them in the microwave. It was from Woolworths which shows how old it is. It made interesting, fat and salt free crisps. 
I make popcorn occasionally to add to a lunch box.