The $27 Shopping Spree
 

You've got $27. You are in your favorite grocery store/market. You have to spend it all. The Pressure is totally ON.

What do you buy?

WHAT

DO

YOU

BUUUUYYYYYYY?

$9 3.5 lb chuck roast
$2 1 lb carrots
$2 2.5 lbs potatoes
$1 one onion
$1 can beef stock
$8 bottle red wine
$2 fresh italian parsley, garlic, thyme
$2 french baguette

serves approx. three, who also get one glass of wine each

here's a good $8 Merlot:'

http://www.winelegacy.com/Images/Ite...20merlot_1.jpg

I'll be over for dinner with $13.50

Some of that wine has to go into the slow cooker, so stop by before 10 am with it and I'll have it done for dinner.

Before I spend I need to know what I am hungry for or I might end up buying ....anything.

I bouquet of flowers. $24.
Starbucks coffee. $3. + kick in own change

( never really buy flowers or Starbucks. Grow and brew own-but I could if I wanted to with free cash and I wasn't starving )

or maybe

Razzleberry pie $8.
Earth 2o Water $2
Deli Chicken whole $6
some obscure box of tea $3.50
Paper towels $7. ( I'm messy )

geez no wonder my grocery bill is so high

I always buy non-perishable sale items in bulk. So if it was a good pasta sale week, the whole lot would have gone on up to 54 lb on pasta. No, not kidding.

If I had no food in the house and only the $27 to feed us over the next week, I'd buy bread, cheese, dried beans, fruit, veg, pasta, cereal.

Mine would look something like this:

$11 Three butternut squashes
$3 Bag of frozen peaches
$2 Bag of frozen cauliflower
$6.50 Six organic gala apples
$1.50 One bunch of kale
$3 One bag of Sunwell onion chips


But I'd still need a whole fryer chicken ($6), 2 lbs. ground beef ($6.50), a pound of sliced turkey ($9), 7 avocados ($7), and 10 pears ($8.50) to get the kids through the week. Guess they're gonna starve.

I'd blow it all on Boar's Head. All. Of. It.

27 dollars worth of Totino's pizza.

If the wife and kids were away at her Mom's house, and I was a bachelor for the night, I'd get a live lobster and bag of live mussels. It's been too long since I've had a lobster.

Beer

I just threw up a little there. Really? *shudder*

81 packets of Ramen!

So that's £17.77 according to xe.com.
I'd be in Sainsbury's.

Chicken for Diz - 1.50
Cat litter - 2.00
2 x pack jumbo king prawns for Mum's meal - 5.98 (they're currently 1/2 price, I want to stick them in the freezer before they go back up to 5.99 each)
Chorizo and three bean soup x 2 - 3.14
Washing capsules - 3.06
Lottery ticket - 1.00

The change I'd jingle in my pocket as I walked home.
All of the above (except the prawns) are things I might buy anyway. Okay it's not luxuries, but it frees up £17 for me to spend on something else.

I like the itemized lists

And it would be money well spent. They make good stuff.

I've just realised I have to spend it ALL. Tough gig when you're dealing with translated money and extra pences. Anything over I'd spend on 10p bottles of fizzy water, and then ask them to round it up at the till. You can do that - the money goes to the supermarket's chosen charity, which in this time and place is Sport Relief, a worthy cause.

Starburst jelly beans and M n Ms in equal portions. If I had an odd amount of money left, I would donate it to the kid looking longingly at the coin machines at the front of the store.

Beer and hookers.

Well, with the kind of hooker you'd get for that kind of money, you're gonna need some beer goggles.

Winner! I'm in!

I hate shopping so much that I wait until we're on the brink of starvation, then I shop for the next three years for anything on sale and non-perishable, and the next several weeks for everything else. a $27 spend just isn't happening. Unless I go to CVS and they have beer at $7.50 for a 12 pack and there is a limit of 3....but that hasn't happened yet.

Rottissere Chicken $7
Bag of baby spinach $3
Pack of Corn tortillas $2
jar of salsa $3
bag of fiesta mix cheese $4
3 avocados in season right now $3
3 pack of red.yellow.orange peppers $4
can of frejoles negros $1

that will make tacos for dinner 3 nights in a row. 4 tacos each.....24 total tacos. healthy tacos

Cheetoes.

Hahahahaa...I know...they're cheap little things. I grew up with the "combination" kind readily available as a snack. Back then it would feed me and my friends because they used to be the size of an album and now they're about the size of a CD.

Mostly, I love the crust. I put it directly on the oven rack and the bottom crisps up really well...yum.

They're not as bad as Jenos! But yeah, I like Totinos. :o

4 L milk 3.97
dozen eggs 1.97
block of farmers cheese 4.99
bunch of bananas 2.30
box of ceral 1.97
3 lb onions .99
3 lb carrots 1.47
head of lettuce .79
package of mini beef wellingtons on sale for 1.94
1 L apple juice .99
1 KG honey ham 4.00
2 tomatoes 1.35

These were all on my last grocery list... however I usually bulk buy, so $250-$350 is more like what we would do.

2 ½-gallons of Heaven Hill vodka @ $12.00 each (or so)
1 gallon cheap orange juice @ $1.50

I'll see ya day after tomorrow.

You need a lot more spinach (about 8 tacos in each bag), but it's only $1.88 a bag. Also 1 pepper for 4 tacos. And you forgot the habenero sauce....

I shop every thursday.

At Trader Joe's. Prices are all complete swags; I'm not much for remembering.

$5.99 2 frozen swordfish steaks (line caught)
$4 Guacamole fixings in a bag (avocados, onion, garlic, tomato, jalapeno)
$6.99 Tin of Guatamalan coffee
$4 jar kalamata olive tapenade
$2 Sourdough bread loaf
$4 ice cream bonbons

the hell i did

No don't be embarrassed! They are great little pizzas.There isn't any better cheap pizza out there. imo

If it weren't for the fat and sodium content I would make them a part of my diet. ;)

omg they're like ALL fat. You wouldn't think so, they're so tiny. I go into denial overdrive when I eat one! :)

somethings are insidious like that

I wish I had never read the label.

I want one right now! :(

I'm having a Totino's pizza craving ahhhh

rockmelon and a bottle of wine would be ideal for us.

wine for me, and a rockmelon for Max.

Those two things would stop us both bitching.

You've got a recipe for this? I like sound of these ingredients. :D

http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/pot_roast/

I forgot the olive oil.

I do this in a crock pot/slow cooker, and I leave it for four-five hours. I use half beef stock, half red wine as the liquid. It can be almost anything - a can of beer, the juice from a can of tomatoes, etc. The meat will be falling apart on its own, when ready.