Just another week of minimal shopping. I need to make a list of things to buy with the remaining money on my Sainsbury's gift card, but in the meantime Alan wanted to shop at Aldi yesterday morning, so I went with him.
I didn't need a lot, so I didn't get a lot. The large cucumbers were just 10p more than the 'normal' sized cucumbers, and they were tiny, skinny little things, so I went large.
The receipt for posterity.
It comes in handy having the prices on my blog posts for comparison over the years, mostly the prices go up but every now and then there is a nice little surprise reduction ... none that I can see on here though.
I bought the oats to refill this jar once I get right to the bottom.
I've been eating weetabix most days since our holiday, but I'm starting to fancy some porridge again now that the mornings are so much cooler. I don't like warm milk on weetabix, I've never been able to eat any cereal that way. My Mum used to have hot milk on her corn flakes when I was little, but I never understood the attraction.
I did, however, quite like the idea of myself with the Ready Brek glow.
Sue xx
Oh yes, ready brek! I remember it well!
ReplyDeleteThe adverts for Ready Brek used to fascinate me, the lumps that my Mum left in it not quite so much!!
DeleteI remember pestering my parents to buy Ready Brek and being so disapppointed when they caved in, it tasted like sawdust and I never got that glow they promised on the advert! x
ReplyDeleteIt was the blandest thing ever wasn't it, mashing the lumps was entertaining though!!
DeleteI always remember the Not the 9 o'clock News comedy sketch re the Ready Brek glow advert. The glowing children walking to school in the cold, as the camera pulls back to reveal ..... A nuclear power plant 😁😁😁
DeleteHaha, I don't remember that one. 😄
DeleteI loved Ready Brek. But now I prefer porridge.
ReplyDeleteI definitely prefer porridge these days. :-)
DeleteObviously the advertisements worked!
ReplyDeleteYes, I somehow persuaded my Mum to buy us the Ready Brek. ;-)
DeleteThe comfort of hot porridge for breakfast. Mum added muesli to porridge oats for variety. I add porridge oats to his muesli for economy.
ReplyDeleteYes, I've done that before now, a couple of handfuls of extra oats in muesli is always a good idea.
DeleteThat was a good deal of shopping for £15 - many times you can find you have fewer items and it is well over £15. I love the morrocan couscous from Sainsburys but it is now an eye watering £4 for a tub now as they want you to buy into their Deli deal of 3 items for £8 which reduces it to £2.66 but often I don't want any of the other items as they mostly have garlic in them and I have severe intolerance to it. Not heard of this brand of oats before - do you have a price for them? - I get the Sainsbury organic oats and only when on offer.
ReplyDeleteI think me not buying any wine since August, or fish from this week is keeping my spending so much lower. The receipt shows that the oats were £2.19, they are good oats too, nice and chunky and they keep a bit of texture.
DeleteI make my own flavoured couscous by buying the plain sort, which are much cheaper (if not quite as instantly easy), and either making it up with stock or with hot water and a selection of spices and herbs.
What a shame that you can't have garlic, I love the stuff. But, I have recently developed an intolerance to sesame seeds, which seems really weird after years of being able to eat them. If I have any I come out in bright red hives, mostly on my arms.
"Central heating for kids" - that takes me back, used it a lot when the kids were young and hungry!
ReplyDeleteYes!! That was the tagline wasn't it. I always wanted that lovely hot glow ... it never worked. :-(
DeleteI still love Ready Brek but usually use porridge oats, they are cheaper and probably more natural.
ReplyDeleteI can't bear warm milk on ordinary cereal.
Alison in Devon x
Of course we could just whizz up some porridge oats and it would be almost the same. :-)
DeleteWarm milk on cornflakes just turns them into a mushy mess, unless of course you can shovel them down in thirty seconds!!
We always had sensible cereal. Weetabix, shredded wheat, and porridge. The one time my wheedling and begging for rice krispies worked, I was so disappointed. They were horrible. No one else would eat them and I had to eat the whole lot 🤮. I never complained about weetabix again.
ReplyDeleteHot milk on cornflakes would be a no for me too.
I remember eating Rice Krispies quite a few times, the 'snap, crackle and pop' made for a very child demanding item on any Mum's shopping list back in the day didn't it. I used to have to eat them very quickly before they went soggy. My youngest son used to love Coco Pops, but he had to eat them before the milk went brown ... we wasted quite a lot that way, or else I had to eat the soggy brown mess after I got back from the walk to school.
DeleteI have heated up my shredded wheat (not the small squares but the large ones) using warm water and draining it off. It softened the cereal a bit.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Yes, I think Alan likes it that way. Warmed and soft but not soggy, but he does it with milk and drinks the milk from the bowl before eating the shredded wheat.
DeleteYour canned/tinned fruit seems so cheap. I converted the 411g to ounces and it comes out to 14.49 oz. The store brand canned peaches here come in 15 oz. cans and are priced $2.29. The conversion rate is 1 British pound equals 1.34 US dollars as of today; and, according to the online conversion calculator, $2.29 is the equivalent of 1.71 British pounds.
ReplyDeleteThe tinned peaches and the cheapest range available, still tasty and I really like them, but branded tinned fruit is much more expensive now. But yes, they still seem much cheaper than you can get.
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