I think sometimes you have to cut your cloth as well. We quite often have baked beans and mashed potato for a main meal. Its cheap and cheerful but at least you can get by on it. I think meals out for us is a thing of the past but at least we still eat.
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I strongly agree with the free range chicken principle. If you pay £2 or so for a chicken in any Supermarket, you are buying a victim of torture mercifully put out of its misery. Yuk.
Same goes for battery farm eggs.
Its the kids that are worst - won't eat this or that...
Economise? No such word in their dictionary
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Our daughter was brought up to try everything before she said she didn't like it and wouldn't eat it.
She eats most foods, and has a very healthy appetite.
I hate it when kids won't eat stuff.
I would go without eggs rather than eat battery farmed ones. They have to be free range, or barn reared at a push.
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I wonder what grocery stores people use as there are loads of variations in prices from using Asda or Tesco to places like Aldi and Liddell
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The very basic lines have increased in price as they used to be cost leaders...but as more and more people bought them stores had to increase the prices.
I only ever have sainsburys food...hubby works there and it means we get discount and he does all the shopping [:D]
I shop at Tesco and Sainsburys, and I also get a few bits and pieces in M & S.
I find Tesco is cheaper, but the quality of their own brand isn't as good as Sainsburys, which is why I go to both. Tesco also often do bigger packs of things than Sainsburys.
M & S is actually cheaper for some things than I thought it would be as the often have special offers. They have things like fish cakes at 2 packs for £3, and they are tastier than supermarket ones, and not a lot dearer. I also buy their digestive biscuits as they are the nicest I've ever tasted!
Some things can't be own brand though as they just don't taste right!
We use Asda, one reason because daughter works there part time and we get 10% discount, but also because we find it one of the cheapest shops.
Tried Aldi and wasn't impressed with them.
Use Tesco as a top up shop as it's only half a mile away.
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I should add that hubby buys a lot of our fresh foods from local greengrocers and butchers. He cooks all our meals from scratch and never uses processed foods. It means more work for him, but its healthier and cheaper!
We also have meat from the local butchers, and last weekend I bought fruit and vegetables from the market, which were much nicer than from the supermarket, although I'm not convinced it was that much cheaper.
I'm going through a fish phase at the moment, so I'm buying quite a bit from the fish counter at Tesco which isn't as expensive as I thought it would be.
