melanie

[elizabethr]

"officials" idea that people can eat healthy diets - ie meat, veg, salad, fruit just as cheap as other things is very unrealistic - even if budgeting didn't matter to you you still wouldn't be able to do the comparison. There are so many things I can't eat because of my crohns and that means my shopping bill is more.

[angela18]

Aldi have special offers on fruit and veg, was advertised on TV.. don't know what the quality is like.. I must spend about £10 - 15 a week on fresh fruit and veg

[Shining]

Aldi is not too bad, it's like our local shop as it's a minute walk from my house, you just have to go early, it is delivered fresh everyday but around here it's so busy, get a fair bit from Aldi but like everywhere the prices are rising as I am seeing on a weekly basis

[angela18]

I went to Lidl at the weekend.. it was awful.. prefer Asda and Aldi. Sometimes Morrisons.. everything is rising in price so dramatically, trying to have a healthy diet is proving harder, most of the fruit I got from Lidl has ended in the bin, except the bananas, was bitter and not pleasant

[no money eva]

Aldi is good , very fussy hubby complained that I got salad from Sainsburys (was passing) and not Aldi lol.

[angela18]

will try it, next week

[Adam Davies]

Hi
During an IVA we were paying around £70-£80 per week for food,now it is around £120-£130.
You don't realise how much you do cut back in an IVA.
Regards

[thanna]

ITS hard to please everybody ,but i have noticed a definate increase even though i buy the same sort of things each week by the last week in the month though money is short,and the specials tesco have on at the moment are great .The figures i gave melanie would be start of the month ones,by last week its chronic!!![:D]

[elizabethr]

I have shopped at Aldi for about 6 years now (why am I in a mess then!!!). When we first started we would shop monthly and get everything apart from fresh bread/veg/fruit etc which we got weekly from local supermarket. Our shopping bill at Aldi then was about 200 a month. We changed to shopping fortnightly because couldn't face all the putting away. Our shopping fortnightly at Aldi now is around £170 (340 every 4 weeks) so that doesn't leave much for fresh stuff. So my point is even the prices at Aldi have risen dramatically.

[thanna]

Thats it you can get your dry goods at the start of the month ,but even bread ,milk,veggies and fruit are getting quite dear.Also my father in law mentioned today that for 500litres of home heating oil its now up to £315,i;m hoping the good weather contines cause i really don;t know were i;m goin to find that amount of money[:I]