Today was £198. I've no idea why, there wasn't even that much booze, about six cans and some cider because I sniffed some apples yesterday and got an urge. No gin. The cats set me back about £14 (two packs of posho cat food because the won't eat the cheap stuff and a bag of cat litter for them to kick about the house). My wife did that thing with a box of cherries (£5) where I tell her to put them back and so she takes them out of the trolley twists and makes like she's putting them back on the shelf but instead just puts them back in the trolley. She also puts stuff in when I'm off messing with the Daily Mail (I wait till no one is looking and then put another newspaper on top, usually the Croydon Guardian, so it looks like they've run out). I sometimes try to put her stuff back when she's not looking but it turns out that she's always looking.
A chicken cost me £11 and some duck legs about £7. There's a small ocean of fish (Icelandic cod, salmon, smoked salmon, prawns) which cost shedloads but think of the vitamin D. I'm not risking rickets. Sausages. Fruit and veg is never cheap (broccoli, courgettes, peppers, tomatoes, leeks, spring greens, potatoes, shallots, turmeric (so, so middle-class), all sorts of chilli peppers, garlic, chestnut mushrooms oranges, melons (x2), blueberries, kiwis, those bloody cherries, apples and pears). Pies are expensive (£4.50 each) but Wednesday is pie and mash night and I can't be bothered with the palaver of making my own. Sliced ham, olives, butter, double cream, creme fraiche, and a big tub of plain yoghurt, tuna pate and bread rolls (for lunch), some pastries (for tea), tonic water (medicinal, we've been self-medicating with a daily g&t since the current unpleasantness started and we've not caught covid yet, coincidence, I think not). Some random toiletries and a big pack of kitchen towels. Mini-Cheddars because they're the king of snacks (the red leicester ones though, they're the best).
There was a plant (£10) and two bunches of flowers (about £12). Apparently not for eating.
Some other sundries I've forgotten about, but it all evidently adds up. I'm not sure how some of you get it so cheap. I have tried living in Sheffield (it's true, by Ecclesall Park), it wasn't that helpful.
We're not entirely mental, we do go in with an idea of what we plan to eat the following week (fish curry, pie and mash night, Hainanese-ish chicken, duck leg curry, smoked salmon lasagne, pizza, sausage ragu pasta thing).