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I know there have been similar threads about what convenience food people buy etc, but I just thought I'd share the story of our supermarket shopping trip this morning. OH usually does it, as I'm at work, but I decided to go along to search out 'new ideas' as he's been saying he's getting a bit bored. We don't got to specialist shops, because it's too much trouble for him, so everything comes from Tesco (or the garden).
Anyway, meatwise he puts a pack of 'mini chicken breast fillets' in the shopping trolley for £4, when we can get a whole chicken for £5. I know all the arguments about free range, but some battles I'll never win with OH. (I have converted hi to free range eaags, a start) Chicken yields 2 wings for bbq, 2 skinned legs for curry, 3 portion of mini breast fillets for stirfrys etc, and the carcase yealded chicken soup for 4 for lunch.
Salmon, a tray with 6 small fillets for £10, or a side that needs chopping up, saving £4 and giving 10 portions. Braising steak from the meat counter, needed trimming and dicing as opposed to ready prepared, enough for 5 @ 80p per person. Gammon joint, half price at £3.74, yielded 1kg of thin sliced cold meat, plus stock to make lentil and bacon pot, serves 4, although a trifle too salty for me. OH and son no1, like with oodles of bread,which takes up the saltyness. Also we bought cooking bacon for son no2 for a bacon rolly poly, but it had to be sorted, because I hadn't realised it was sell by today.
However penalty kick awarded to me for my canny ideas. 2 hours after returning form shopping, whilst OH has got a drink and retired upstairs for a well earned rest following a hetic shopping trip, I am just finishing off portioning and preparing the stuff for the freezer, my cuppa lonesome and unheeded to the side. Then he comes down and asks what's for lunch
Was my time well spent? I think so, we saved a lot on feeding our current family of 5 (2 strapping sons back from uni, happy to eat homemade cooking, with houshold contributions kept to a minimum), but I can't see OH going to all that trouble in sorting stuff out. If he buys the same stuff, I will find it stiil the the fridge awaiting my return from work.
All I get is 'you love cooking' when I remonstrate. He can't seem to see the difference between creative cookery and sheer drudgery, but I am working on him by liberating a good proportion of his martini bianco tonight, much to his amazement.
Anyway, meatwise he puts a pack of 'mini chicken breast fillets' in the shopping trolley for £4, when we can get a whole chicken for £5. I know all the arguments about free range, but some battles I'll never win with OH. (I have converted hi to free range eaags, a start) Chicken yields 2 wings for bbq, 2 skinned legs for curry, 3 portion of mini breast fillets for stirfrys etc, and the carcase yealded chicken soup for 4 for lunch.
Salmon, a tray with 6 small fillets for £10, or a side that needs chopping up, saving £4 and giving 10 portions. Braising steak from the meat counter, needed trimming and dicing as opposed to ready prepared, enough for 5 @ 80p per person. Gammon joint, half price at £3.74, yielded 1kg of thin sliced cold meat, plus stock to make lentil and bacon pot, serves 4, although a trifle too salty for me. OH and son no1, like with oodles of bread,which takes up the saltyness. Also we bought cooking bacon for son no2 for a bacon rolly poly, but it had to be sorted, because I hadn't realised it was sell by today.
However penalty kick awarded to me for my canny ideas. 2 hours after returning form shopping, whilst OH has got a drink and retired upstairs for a well earned rest following a hetic shopping trip, I am just finishing off portioning and preparing the stuff for the freezer, my cuppa lonesome and unheeded to the side. Then he comes down and asks what's for lunch
Was my time well spent? I think so, we saved a lot on feeding our current family of 5 (2 strapping sons back from uni, happy to eat homemade cooking, with houshold contributions kept to a minimum), but I can't see OH going to all that trouble in sorting stuff out. If he buys the same stuff, I will find it stiil the the fridge awaiting my return from work.
All I get is 'you love cooking' when I remonstrate. He can't seem to see the difference between creative cookery and sheer drudgery, but I am working on him by liberating a good proportion of his martini bianco tonight, much to his amazement.
The other bad thing with him doing the shopping is that he comes home saying "It only came to £--.--" , but then I find that he's missed stuff off that was on the list, or only bought small packs where I said get large, and then things run out before the next shopping trip 
which means we have to "Just nip to the Co-op" and it ends up costing more then...
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