Might as well do another food shop photo to round off the month................
The world and his wife were outside Aldi at 8am on a very hot morning waiting for it to open to get shopping done and home again.
I was there too - lots of empty spaces in the fruit and veg section due to a late delivery but I got the things on my list. I noticed the icecream/ice lolly freezers were decimated!
Left to right. Bunch beetroot £1.39, Tender-stem broccoli £1.45 (their heads of calabrese were looking sad and yellowing just like the week before).1Kg nectarines £2.39; 6 mini apples 99p; mango 69p (one of their on offer special 6 - they are usually 88p); 2 peanuts @ 59p = £1.18; crumpets 45p; 6 medium free range eggs £1.49; 4 pints semi skimmed milk £1.65; ground coffee 1 decaf and one normal @ £2.49p = £4.98; mayo 89p; and off the edge of the photo is a pack of six small packs of mini cheese bakes 99p.
I saw that too - about another heatwave, I mean. It seems to be an increasingly frequent event at the moment, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteA lovely lot of fruit and veg there. It's a good time of year for variety!
Have a great week. xx
We are so lucky to have a good selection - even if most are imported
DeleteI keep a tally of which fruit and veg we're eating so I can make sure we're getting enough variety. It's much easier to do in the summer when we're growing lots in the garden.
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I forgot the courgettes from the garden!
DeleteThat's a really good selection of fruit and veg for the month, and a decent spend too. I was going to do a post about 'my final shop of June' too. 😄
ReplyDeleteand I forgot courgettes from the garden and raspberries - although I can't eat them anymore. I seem to be desperately short of blog post ideas due to not going anywhere.
DeleteI just randomly take photos of things and have them saved on my computer in date order. I usually find that if I'm not sure what to write about a photo will set me off nicely. I do sometimes think I am getting a bit 'samey' though.
DeleteIndonesia is one of the countries in Southeast Asia where fruits and vegetables are affordable and easy to find. Growing older is inevitable; however, living a healthy life is a choice.
ReplyDeleteHappy Monday to you all, guys!
How good you have lots of choice of fruit and vegetables too
DeleteGooseberries... I haven't had gooseberries since well before Covid. As a child we had bushes in the garden and ate them regularly (and grandmother's jam too)
ReplyDeleteI used to get scratched to bits picking 100lb of gooseberries to sell every year at the smallholding
DeleteI budget £5 a day for the two of us. You can eat a healthy and varied diet shopping as you do for basic ingredients, fresh fruit and fresh or frozen vegetables. It has been a week of salads using any veg, even cauliflower, which is good eaten raw. Aldi British, free range mixed size eggs are just 99p for 6 good eggs.
ReplyDeleteI've not seen those mixed size eggs at our Aldi. I shall make sure to look more closely.
DeleteI don't like to buy from the farm roadside stall in this heat as there's no way of knowing how long the eggs have been out in the heat
Good evening it’s 8pm and I’m watching the start of Wimbledon. Very lucky it’s on free to air tv. but the better matches are often too late at night for me here in Victoria Australia to watch. It looks like a lovely day over there. Rainy, wintery weather here. JennyP
ReplyDeleteWimbledon not going well for British players and it's only the first day!
DeleteYour fruits and vegetable lists are impressive.
ReplyDeleteOur fruits and vegetables are not always reliable. Last week I bought a few good-looking apples only to find they were hard as rocks and tasteless.
The strawberries and blueberries were delicious.
How annoying about your nasty apples. British apples will soon be finished here for a month or so - we get New Zealand Apples then back to British in late August or September.
DeleteAnother heatwave is hitting today..stifling humidity already. My shopping "months" start the 27th so I did my first of July yesterday. I didn't feel like driving out or across town so went to the expensive neighborhood grocery store. Yikes, but was intentional about trying to find loss leaders or basics. Still, two green peppers cost $3, and fresh vegetables shouldn't feel like a treat.
ReplyDeleteIt seems all wrong that your vegetables are so expensive.
DeleteI will have a few of my own peppers from the plant I bought soon. The plants I grew from seed are going to be very very late
Our heatwave started today and it will be in the 90s (F) all week. The A/C will keep me comfortable and if I need a walk I may head to the shopping mall where they keep it cool.
ReplyDeleteWe may have another hot week sometime soon. So different to some years when July can be very mixed.
DeleteStruggling with grocery prices in the US. I think a lot of the farm and food processing workers stayed back in Mexico and Central America, so there is a labor shortage. Even our local farmers have high expenses, so farm stands are expensive, too.
ReplyDeleteBonnie in Minneapolis
Oh, I hadn't heard that about July. Ugh! But I suppose we have to expect more hot weather -- we're barely into summer, after all!
ReplyDeleteI've never heard the phrase "the world and his wife" -- funny! Kind of like "everyone and their uncle," which is what we'd say in the states.
It's not difficult to eat 'five a day' or even 'ten a day,' especially in the summer. Paying for them, for some people, might be a little more problematic.
ReplyDeleteHaven’t been keeping tabs on the grocery spend lately, we grill a lot outside when it’s nice and that tends to mean more meat!
ReplyDeleteI did wonder about the two peanuts @ 59p each. Didn't see them in the photo!
ReplyDeleteNice lot of fruit and veg. That heat is headed our way now. Sigh. Don't want it lol. It's going to be a hot week here. I was enjoying my cooler temps.
ReplyDeleteI like your tally of the fruits and vegetables bought and eaten during the month. I tend to stick to the same vegetables, but, I will try to incorporate more variety in July.
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