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Thursday is our normal shopping day but plans changed and we are taking my parents out for the day, we pay for petrol and do the driving and Dad buys lunch :-) So when these coupons dropped through the letterbox this week we thought it was time to stock up on Orange Basics at Sainsburys.
Its week one this week.
£10 off a £50 shop this week, normally we dont spend that in one go but looking at the menu plan and taking stock of the cupboards and freezers I knew I could justify spending that amount to stock up. Lidl is our usual shop with a Morrisons trip now and again, but we do like Sainsburys basic range so why pay more for a big brand when this one is just as good. Lidl and Sainsburys are virtually next door to each other so we nipped into Lidl too and picked up the bits we prefer not to buy in Sainsburys.
Cravendale Milk.. this has a date on of 5th April it keeps really well in the fridge and I know it wont be needed until next week, we dont have a local shop so I need to keep enough to last at least a week. We have tried the long life stuff and dont like it. Fruit and veg are bought weekly but we always have plenty frozen veg in stock and we get lots of free veg from a friend. Eggs essential for baking and yorkies but eggs for eating are usually bought at the farm gate 6 for £1.25 and they are delicious. 2 blocks of extra strong cheese one for grating and keeping in the freezer, handy for pizza, quiche or a cheese sauce with extra strong you dont need to use quite as much to get the same flavour, so more economical. There was a Ciabbata cob but we ate most of it for lunch....greedy piggies!!
Meat, we don't have a Butchers anywhere near here unless you go into Town where parking can be a problem so I buy from the Supermarkets and buy what I can afford then get creative when turning it all into meals. We are trying the frozen white fish fillets from the basics range £1.68 there are 8 small fillets of Alaskan Pollock and would feed 4 people, we have had Pollock many times so I cant see this being a problem. Sausages, not often I buy them and haven't had these frozen ones £2.50 for 20 = 1kg they look nice on the bag so we will see! if you dont try you never know!! ........No cooking Bacon in Sainsburys today....drat!!
Hubby's treats Peanut butter, which we discovered is nice in place of some of the butter in flapjack, and the Frosted Flakes :-( vegetable rice, nice and easy, tomatoes so versatile and the instant mash 6 helpings for 49p and I am not ashamed to say we like it :-)
We don't use many tins of things but we do use these on a regular basis.
You can see from the till receipts I went a bit over the £50..£52.84 minus the £10 and I spent another £17.57 in Lidl so my total spends for all the above food came to £60.41. I think its a good balanced shop and it will last us well into next month and some things longer. Out of the remaining coupons I might use week 5 and do it all again, we shall have to wait and see how the stocks are, I certainly wont do it just because we have a coupon, they also gave me £1 Brand match coupon off my next shop but I can pass this on to my Mum.
How do you shop, are you loyal to one Supermarket or are you a savvy shopper who hunts down the bargains? Do you use coupons like these to stock up or just throw them in the bin and stick to just buying what you need weekly?
The sun is shining and there is free heat in the conservatory.....time for a cuppa and a bit of a kindle.
Enjoy your day
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