Filling a post with food shopping again!
Two weeks after my last proper food shop and the first one for June was a big shop. Restocking cupboards, buying lots of lovely summer fruit and all the ingredients for making a big batch of Thai red fish curry as most of the 12 portions of Quorn Korma curry made way back in January have been eaten.
Almost everything was from Aldi but then I popped into Morrisons to get a couple of things that Aldi don't have.
From left to right.............. Salad leaves 65p; Large pack of nectarines 1kg £2.39; strawberries £2.15; 2 x packs of 6 mini apples @ 59p = £1.18; carrots 500g 44p; mini potatoes 75p; head of calabrese 79p; Large bag wonky peppers £1.69; mangetout 200g £1.19; pack of 7 mini cheese biscuits 99p; 2 x peanuts @ 59p = £1.18; 2 x tins plum tomatoes @ 43p= 86p; tin peaches 45p; spaghetti 500g 33p; pack 6 cheese/onion rolls £1.75; 4 wholemeal burger baps 69p; 1.5kg plain flour 70p; 2 x tins coconut milk @75p = £1.50; 400g extra mature cheese £2.49. 1 decaf ground coffee £2.49; 2 x ground coffee @ £2.49 = £4.98; shortbread biscuits 95p; fig roll biscuits 59p; 2 x Dried prunes @ £2.79 = £5.58; Thai red curry paste £1.29; 2 x Lemon meringue pie mix @ 85p = £1.70; Flora cholesterol lowering Proactive spread £3.75; 2 x Frozen Sweet potato fries @ £1.99= £3.98; Icecream £1.35; Basa fish fillets £1.75.
Total spend was £50.42 blimey! hopefully not a lot else will be needed for the rest of June except eggs and fresh stuff.
As the photo didn't really show all the shopping very well I decided to video it then took me an age to remember/find out how to upload to youtube and now I've no idea if it works or not. I'd forgotten I even had a you-tube channel! It's just a couple of short bits from the meadow at Clay Cottage, a tour round the garden there in 2019 which is only 7 years ago but I must have aged since then ( errrr yes Susan you are 7 years older!) as I doubt I'd manage all that gardening now. The most recent video - an even shorter bit of the view over the village is from 2024 and I don't even remember making it.
Sometimes it all seems to run out at once, especially things like cleaning products, etc. I have bleach x 6 on my shopping list today and I don't think I have bought any since the New Year.
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6 bleach? Something that I don't buy and only connect with people covering up a murder in crime books and on TV!!!
DeleteWell done on managing the YouTube. Serious YT people must spend hours producing their clips! I love lemon meringue pie, but never make it as I'd eat it all straightaway, nobody else in the family likes it. You got your tinned peaches at a good price (45p)
ReplyDeleteHave to search for lemon meringue mix - not stocked in many places. I love it - takes me back to childhood. I make it last me 5 days.
DeleteWhen you do a stock up shop it always feels expensive but quite a lot of what you bought will stretch over the month. I have to tell myself this often when I gulp at the bill total!
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When I make the fish curry it will probably do a dozen portions at least and most things are replacements for things used and won't need buying again for ages.......hopefully.
DeleteYou got some good deals there, and although it seems expensive now, like the Quorn korma curry you have only just finished eating from the freezer, some of this will last you for a long time.
ReplyDeleteYou can understand why YouTubers call it their 'job' at times can't you. It usually takes a day or so of filming and then up to a couple of days of editing and uploading for a video of half an hour or more. I guess they get quicker with time, but I wouldn't have the patience with the editing. My channel is purely for the films I link to on my blog and for Alan to have a record of the renovations.
I look much too old and decrepit to appear on you-tube! and it would take forever - I'd rather be reading!
DeleteWhat a healthy shop. I've never eaten Quorn. I will have to look up my own recipe for the lemon base for L. Meringue pie and share it. Haven't made it for years but it is scrummy.
ReplyDeleteRewilding Jude, which is one of my favourite Youtube channels, is now his full-time job (but remuneration VERY good apparently!)
I made lemon meringue myself from scratch once but it just tasted of cornflour and was horrible. I like the Greens mix as it's so quick
DeleteSome competitive prices there, I recently bought strawberries from Tesco, over £3 in price and they were horrible!
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I got some strawbs from the car boot sale a couple of weeks ago - big pack for £3.50 but they went off before I could eat them all.
DeleteI hope this big shop carries you for a few weeks.
ReplyDeleteOur grocery stores seem well stocked, but the prices are generally continuing to rise. The only sale item was: Chicken for $1.99 per lb. instead of $2.99. Buying 3 packages made good sense. My freezer is stocked.
Newscasters report lack of fertilizer is causing a problem for US farmers. Also, many farms employed immigrants for the growing season, and this is no longer an easy option.
Exactly the same problems here, hope it ends soon.
DeleteI did a similar shop for fresh produce at Aldi today, and stopped at Asda for basic muesli 3 x 1 kg £2 , 1 courgette, yoghurt 1kg, £1.70, Aldi had none, and more colourful basic peppers 700g £1.97, and got y.s. cod fillets in breadcrumbs 400g £2.70, on the way home from our members’ free coffee at Dobbies. I take a photograph of the items in the small supermarket trolley. £34 spent.
ReplyDeleteMy two courgette plants are growing slowly - sometime in the future I'll have courgette fritters! I'm going to use a couple of the wonky peppers in the curry and then slice and put the rest in the freezer, they will last until I have my own - maybe.
DeleteLovely to see all the fruit and veg with their bright colours. I left pears out to ripen and they went bad. Managed to salvage two portions to have with yoghurt. Catriona
ReplyDeleteThat's annoying. I keep the nectarines in the fridge and then take out two at a time to ripen in the kitchen. They take three days to ripen at first and then less time later .
DeleteThat's a good shop for the price!
ReplyDeleteI have a Youtube channel though the only thing I use it for is for showing videos on my blog ha ha
That was a very big shop and at a great price.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
I agree with everyone else: stock up shops are always a bit eye watering, but you bought a good amount of good food. It will last. BTW, I never heard of mangetout before. I had to look that up, but I recognized them as soon as I read about them. We call them snow peas.
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