Saturday Shopping

 

Alan has not been very well this week, so I took myself off nice and early this morning before he had even surfaced to get myself the few things that I needed, and a few easy, treaty type things for him for the weekend.

My shopping came to £33.64, but almost ten pounds of that was for the toilet rolls.  They were on special offer again this week and as I have only five rolls left I thought it would be prudent to pick up a new pack, just in case they are not on offer again until well after Christmas.

I must have had Christmas somewhere on the back of my mind as I bought a pack of mince pies, happily the date is well into the New Year so I can try and save them until Christmas.  They were £3.50 for a box of twelve, so I doubt I will be buying too many boxes this year.

I was most likely being Christmassy due to watching television with Alan last night.  Unlike me he watches live television and lets the adverts run, and every bl**dy advert break had Aldi's Kevin the Carrot pushing their Christmas message, then up pops Dawn French and the M&S food adverts ... oh how they pull you in!!

The things that I got for Alan came to exactly £12, this was mostly due to a few of the things being on Sainsbury's offers and I bought him a meal deal which saved me £2.40.

I remembered to date the things that went into the cupboard.  😁

To make all this affordable in my current really tight budget I used all the Nectar points that I had available, and managed to get £27.50 off the total amount.

It all helps.

One thing that stopped me in my tracks was spotting this Nescafe offer.  I almost fell for it, and got myself another jar to stock up the cupboard.

Then I spied the larger jar directly next to the 200g one, which was actually 31p per 100g cheaper.  Always, always, always check the shelf edge label.  It did make me wonder how many times in the past have I just gone for the offer without a closer look, not too many I hope!!

Sue xx