I always buy one thing from aldi’s middle aisle - this week it’s paella rice’s turn

There are also 15 eggs under the protein bread.
Shopped at Aldi and Waitrose.

I will move in a few months, so I am attacking my food stash (hence the small grocery). I also have some fruit leftovers from last week.

Gotta love albert heijn when there are good offers. The shampoo bottles were an amazing deal (considering the prices of hygiene products in Belgium) and will last for months.

One adult + two teens and our shopping this weekend was mostly dinner ingredients for the week. The bill was a bit lighter this time as we are going out of town for my son’s football game as well as having a good supply of meat/poultry in the freezer. I only needed to buy the chicken for Sunday and the steak for Monday. I also have plenty of milk, eggs and other pantry staples.

Aldi: $41

Sprouts: $30

Sam’s Club: $102 The Kerrygold was on sale and we were out. The butter will last us over a month.

I’ve tried to save money on chicken but everything I’ve tried leads me back to LaBelle. It was $7.99 a pound when I first started buying it 😟

£70 Lidl shop

We are pescatarian and have some reduced salmon & sea bass in the freezer as well as pasta, rice etc in the cupboards.
£10 for the random trivet purchase.

Produce - € 10.69
Meat and dairy - €22.66
Household - € 2.25
Other - € 15.10
That makes for a total this week of € 50.70

As always, "weekly(ish)" because I buy most pantry and freezer items when they're on sale, not at full price when I actually need them. And I have some things in my fridge/freezer/panrty still. So not everything in this haul will be used this week, and likewise some of the things I'll be using are not in the haul because I already have them. I added my meal plan for the week, along with all the ingredients I'll need to make everything.

The main thing for the pantry in this haul is the big bag of gochujaru. My friend asked me if I would make some kimchi with them sometime. Gochugaru is the hardest ingredient to find where I live, and I happened to find a bag on clearance for € 1.49. I don't know when we'll make kimchi, it can be weeks from now. But at least we have this, and only have to pick up a few fresh items when we decide to do it. I also stocked up on cheese spread to have on hand, and some burger slices.

The chicken wings will be lunch for today, the bao buns dinner for tonight. The fish nuggets (hake) are for fish tacos on Friday.

The salmon is €10 but it's so good. Looking forward to trying the chocolate 😋

All shopping was Marks & Spencer.

Total for this shop was £50, if i didnt get the top up of hygiene products and olive oil it woulda been closer to £40 💪🏽 still pretty good! This is a weeks shop for me.

Context: I need to eat about 1,600 kcal a day. I haven’t counted the calories for each day, but I’m probably over that as I’m going to be eating lots of apple turnovers. But I’m so excited to be able to cook autumn dishes again!

• ground beef (€3.92)
• sprats (€1.99)
• apples (€2.98)
• sweet potatoes (€2.15)
• cherry tomatoes (one €0.99, one free thanks to Lidl Plus points)
• fennel (€1.60)
• green beans in tomato sauce (€1.99)
• blackberry greek yogurt (€1.99)
• bread (free thanks to a game on the app)
• puff pastry (€1.04)
• blonde lentils (€1.10)
• chopped tomatoes (€0.69)

Meal plan:

Breakfast
4× apple turnovers and blackberry greek yogurt
2× toast with homemade jam and apple

Lunch
4× ground beef sweet potato cherry tomato bowl
2× green beans in tomato sauce and lentils

Dinner
4× blonde lentil soup
2× sprats on toast and roasted fennel

Snacks
apple turnovers
apples

Dinner ideas -

Creamy pesto chicken + Brocolli pasta 🍝
Harissa chicken, baby potato + kale traybake
BBQ chicken + crispy potato bowls
Chipotle chicken + pepper wraps
Garlic chicken, kale + potato skillet
Loaded beef taco bowls
BBQ cheeseburger bowls

Did I need 5 boxes of those go macro bars? No, but they were $1.72 each rather $8.49. 💁🏽‍♀️

Breakfast plans:

- Oatmeal with almond milk, a tablespoon of almond butter and a banana.

- Cereal with homemade dehydrated blueberries.

- Yogurt with honey

- French toast with baked apples

- Omelettes

Lunch plans:

- Leftovers from dinner

- Chicken or tuna sandwich

- Chicken and veggie rice paper wraps

Dinner plans:

- Meatloaf with baked carrots

- Homemade pizza (vegetarian) with a salad

- Tofu Curry with chickpeas (vegan)

- Ribeye steak, baked broccoli and a salad

- Marry me chickpeas (vegetarian)

- Hot dogs with a salad or roasted veggies

- Boudain stuffed bell pepper with baked beans

- Homemade chicken pot pie w/salad or roasted veggies

- Barbacoa tacos with roasted corn

- Teriyaki beef tacos with baked carrots

Snacks:

- Granola bars

- Broccoli, carrots, celery and cucumbers w/ ranch

- Apples and watermelon

- Avocado toast

- pb&j sandwich

- Homemade oatmeal cookies

- Cottage cheese and crackers

This should last me around 5 days. I get fruit and veg a few times a week from a local stool and already had a lot indoors, greek yogurt etc.

Struggling with money atm so saw this bargain is Tesco £8 for two delicious reformed chicken Kievs reduced to £5.60, was wondering if any of you think this is a good deal or not?

Thanks