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Next thing people will want is vegetarian eggs :D

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lol dont, i nearly fell off my chair when you said that about the veg :D

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Got 400grms lean mince from Lidl - fried it up with an onion.Added tin of chopped tomatoes.
Day 1 Cottage Pie
Day2 Spag boll
Day 3 Mince &mash/veg
Total cost £2

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Nooooo I never put chopped tomatoes in Cottage Pie, does anybody else?? They are fine in Spag Boll but would never put them in Mince, mash and veg either. Just the way I eat it, anybody else agree/disagree???

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Mince with onion garlic tomatoes and parsley = bolognaise
Mince with onion garlic tomatoes chilli powder and kidney beans = chilliconcarne
If you cook a batch of mince with onion and then divide it up for the other things to be added on later days, you will not get the same flavour because the meat wont have absorbed it.

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If you buy the value stuff at Tesco which is pretty good then you are better off than shopping at places like Aldi.
Me and my Fiance spend around 80 pounds a month on all our groceries which we don't consider to be too bad.
You just have to be careful when shopping and get the bargains.

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That's what I did - forgot to mention the garlic.Can afford A chop now for Sunday £5 for 10 at farmfoods:p

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Was what I wanted to say get a pound or even half a pound add the onions and use it over how many days it last!!!

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Jamie Winehouse would be going mad if he seen this thread.. he ain't to cool on cheap produce! cos it ain't "pucka"

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Is that Amies brother?:(Don't have the recipe for space cake)

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I would have to buy about ten pounds of mince to do that in this house, our bill varies because we dont do a weekly shop as such, but would guess about £120 - £140 per week.

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I must pay attention to how much im spending, it used to be about £60 a week but not sure now

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Gives you more reason to recycle then doesn't it?

I use those cloth reusable bags, they're brilliant and don't hurt my hands as much when I have to carry them long distances.


I spend about £20 a week on myself I'd say, though I have started getting two weeks worth of food so then I get a better selection of what I fancy eating during the week. I could probably cut it down a lot more if I wanted to but I like to get snacks and things. The lads buy the loo rolls and cleaning products.

I do most of my shopping in the market/butchers and get bread and bits from the spar. Prices are similar if I shop at sainsburys. The cheapest place to shop I find is farmfoods for frozen stuff.

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Just something that depressed me this morning. There is a report out this morning which says that the average family is now £8 a week worse of because of extra taxation, but we should stop moaning, we've never been so well off, well accroding to a Labour MP that is