I didn't need much shopping at the weekend, but Alan was going to Aldi and going for a bacon butty at Booths so I volunteered to go with him. 😁
After Booths, where he had his bacon butty, bought me a toasted teacake and we both partook of coffee, we bought some bread on the way out. Alan got an unsliced organic loaf and I got another packet of four buns ... which he very kindly paid for despite my trying to put £1.25 into his hand. The next stop was Aldi where Alan seemed to go mad in the aisles and filled a shopping trolley, I just got the few things above and waited for him just past the checkouts.
I didn't really need the fish portions, but knowing that I now had space in the freezer seemingly my right hand thought that they should be in the trolley along with Ginger's morning treats and the other bits and pieces. I did need the wine, it was after all Saturday and right at the end of a long week!! 😄
My Aldi shopping receipt.
I thought 'woohoo Ginger's treats have gone down in price', I wasn't quite as excited when I had a closer look at the packet when I got home and discovered that now there are only five treats per packet and not six. 😐
The Booths receipt that Alan paid for.
The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that I bought TWO packets of bread rolls, or 'baps' as these are insisting to be called..
When I saw these in Aldi for just 69p looking so similar to the Booths ones but at less than half the usual price ... they are on offer at the moment at £1.25 and are usually £1.40. I thought that a taste comparison was in order.
I'll let you know after I try one of each in the very near future. The Booths ones are currently residing in the freezer, even me and my penchant for brown bread rolls cannot manage to eat all of them at once. I do have one of last weeks Booths pack leftover to do the taste test.
Sue xx
We've suddenly become fans of soft bread rolls... probably from me reading about them and seeing photographs of your sandwiches on your blog!
ReplyDeleteOh gosh ... you've turned me into an influencer!! ;-)
DeleteSeriously though I find that I do that sort of thing, buy something that I either usually don't or haven't for ages and when I get home I realise it's because I've been watching someone on Instagram or YouTube and they were eating it, or even it was just in the background. Oh well, I do hope you are enjoying your bread rolls.
Two brands of bread roll with such a price gap definitely needs a taste comparison! I've noticed "shrinkflation" with cat food pouches - from 100g to 85g. Same size pouch but now with a sneaky fold in the bottom.
ReplyDeleteIt's such a huge gap in price isn't it, definitely worthy of a taste and ingredient comparison.
DeleteOoh, that's naughty to reduce the food in a cat pouch. Fine if you have an overweight cat, but if like with our Ginger you are trying to keep weight ON your cat, that is not going to help at all. :-(
Nescafé coffee sachets now have 7 instead of 8 in the box after their revamp. Price is now £2.10 a box but we were in Tescos last week when we were away and they were selling them for £1.65 so I bought a few boxes! Love a toasted tea cake and Norrie would have been enjoying a bacon sandwich too. Catriona
ReplyDeleteShrinkflation is definitely on the rise again isn't it, but that's a really good souvenir of your holidays to have some bargain Nescafe to bring home. :-)
DeleteCrusty rolls used to be a favourite of mine but these days it has to be a soft roll/bap/barmcake or oven bottom
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Alison in Devon x
I've never really been a fan of crusty rolls, apart from the odd one that I've had in a café to dip into soup.
DeleteI'd be very interested to see the results of the taste test. I see like me you buy organic eggs. I only realised recently thet the term Free Range is used very loosely.
ReplyDeleteTune in tomorrow for a VERY bready post!! ;-)
DeleteYes, I try to only buy organic eggs, chickens need space and organic flocks do get more than free rangers.