Thanks for this video. Real as real gets, love it. I use Aldi and Lidl all the time. Gotta be clever and thoughtful what we buy these days, things got so bloody expensive last 3 years eh, no choice. Little changes like no more buying pasta sauces, but buy pasata and make my own, looking out for the deals, and the reduced labels; the 75% ones at Aldi are very handy. If I do end up in a Tesco they have their Aldi price match range which is helpful. I still swear to this day almost all branded stuff is the exact same stuff in the same factories, just maybe at times slightly wonkier, but it's the same food. I to this day cannot believe the price of Heinz ketchup vs unbranded. It's like 4 times more. Bonkers. Bless you x
You are so RIGHT! Heinz Ketchup is a rip-off! It's awful as everything we do now, is giving us a real think and so we put back that Cadbury's choc (i do RELUCTANTLY!!). Thank you, so much for your kind words. I have a few more videos out this week, including a lovely homeless guy interview. xx
Hi, thank you, for comments. Yes, we have eggs, potatoes and brown rice. The next shop will be salmon and chicken. I also DUMPSTER DIVE and last week at M&S we got 6 packs of Tilda brown rice DATE: 25/1/25. Couldn't believe they threw it! Also so many beautiful roses and flowers (slightly squashed), but still so colourful. It is difficult as my children all under 9 years old. You can see from my other video i got over a hundred boxes of Nescafe dumpster diving. I try my best and also my husband had heart attack last year so he drastically changed diet (veg/fish in the main). His work hours were reduced and as you can imagine, with 3 children, it's been difficult. We have not ever had any benefits and i dumpster dive to make extra money. Thank you, for your helpful advice it means a lot.
This wont keep for long so i can recommend those green bags for fridge storage they keep veg fresh for longer worth investing in a supply as u can rinse them out too...
I think once you do the shop, you should probably gives us a complete breakdown of what you plan to cook and how this looks for the week? Just an idea.
That's actually a very good idea. Thank you, for your very kind advice. The vegetables are cooked along side brown rice (small amount), and often in week a boiled egg for each child. We do eat a lot of vegetables, cooked with tomatoes. It is actually quite filling. I'm definitely going to do what you said on my next visit. Thanks again.
@ Thank you, very much for your very kind comments and feedback. i will definitely do a shop and actually say each day what i will be cooking for my 3 children and husband. many thanks, again. xx
We try to eat as much veg as possible but no, we are not vegetarians. Children love eating peppers, onions and anything with lots of deep flavours. We often go crab fishing in the summer.
@@KimmyMiller ha ha you mean £26 (pounds) as pence is 'cents'...ha ha. I love the US. I use to visit my family in Cali and i visited NY many many times. What state are you from? Tonight here in the UK it's FREEZING! MY BRAIN HAS FROSTBITE!! xx
'Struggle food shop' - with blueberries, organic vine tomatoes and organic carrots! Branded dish washing soap, kitchen roll and luxury toilet paper - struggle? Yea right! No pasta, no pulses, no rice, no tins or frozen veg. You really need to learn to cook. No way this would feed five for a week!
Thank you, for that comment. Alongside of this food i cook brown rice and boiled eggs. Eggs are by donation from our neighbour farmer. We get around 12 eggs a fortnight. Toilet paper is not luxury, it's a good price for good 9 rolls. I will look into that as there was not anything cheaper. Fairy liquid goes a long way. Meals still need to be tasty and when i can get good price organic, i do buy it. Other tomatoes are tasteless in comparison. I have around 30 tins of kidney beans/garden peas from dumpster diving and YES 100% this food last a week, accompanied with eggs OR rice. Twins are ages 5 and my other child age 9. My husband had a heart attack last year and literally only eats veg/fish. As for cooking i am a very accomplished cook. I lived a nomadic life for over 2 years so we are, i am, use to making do. I love organic foods where i can as long as i don't go over budget. Next weeks shop is salmon (Lidl). We don't really eat pasta (once every few months. I appreciate all your helpful comments thank you.
@LottieLife-f3z A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Organic ingredients have very little nutritional difference to the non-organic, just require thorough washing (as do organic). Many 'organic' foods these days can be grown with (human) effluent as fertilizer. Salmon from most sources is farmed and is fed on industrially derived pellets which can contain contaminants which accumulate in the fish, also environmentally very bad. Tinned sardines, mackerel and pilchards (from a reputable source) are wild and therefore better. Pasta is exceptionally good value carbohydrate, kids love it, and its tasty if cooked correctly. Same for potatoes. Easy to grow great salad leaves and tomatoes (albeit in season) and many plants can be foraged for greens all year round. Tomato pasata, puree or tinned are also good value and tasty if Italian in origin. If you run a freezer then frozen food is also very good value and retains most nutrients since it is blast frozen close to harvest (particularly peas). You can also 'batch' cook with a freezer. (Put duvet or pilllow in a bin liner in the freezer, if the feezer isn't full). 'Fairy' liquid doesn't last longer - it's marketing hype. Kitchen roll is a complete waste of money better to buy 'Jeye' cloths and reuse. Toilet tissue can be bought wholesale for much less (24 or 36 rolls at a time, or be naughty and take from work! Sorry if my original criticisms were a bit rude, but you can save even more without changing your dietary tastes too much.
typical broad, she aint exactly a full box set is she i mean she has 5 kids and no man around lol cant even do OF , its over. post wall toll is being paid.
@Humanity101-zp4sq It was never rude of you ...You actually are SO right. Funny thing is i just got myself a job as a cleaner, i didn't want anything too taxing (brain ache!). Anyway, it's cleaning toilets and yes, there is a lot of toilet paper (it's a cash n carry)! Your comment was so funny ha ha. You are right about the jay cloths...i will go and buy these tomorrow. Last year when i was dumpster diving i found boxes (LOADS!), of washing up liquid but it had burst in boxes and leaked. I just threw them in car and sorted them out at home. Think i had around 30 or so, but sold most at car boot. I should have kept them. I never thought about pillow in liner! You are a wizard and i will defo do this. I do appreciate your feedback as it is always good to get someone elses perspective. thank you, for even taking the time to read and watch. 😍😍🥰🥰
@LottieLife-f3z No worries. Your comments are very kind. Glad to help. Freezers use most energy when you open them up, and cold air is exchanged with warm air from the room. You may have noticed that they cycle the compressor most times after the door has been opened. The pillow (in a bin liner to prevent it from getting wet) reduces the amount of warm air exchange. Many people use loaves of bread to achieve the same effect, but if you are not keen on bread, a pillow will do. A bit like putting a brick or a bottle of water in the toilet cistern to reduce flush volume and water wastage. Another good idea, although this requires some tweaking, is to put the freezer and/or fridge on a 24 hour resettable timer switch, then it will not cycle as often but still keep everything cold. You'd need a thermometer and experiment to see how much 'off cycle' you can get away with. Many fridges and freezers will cope with a 10 min 'off cycle' every hour, with no ill effect on the inside temperature, and considerable saving in electricity. Don't take too many toilet rolls at once - little and often and no one will know any different! It's worth being a little more careful when loading the trolley too, in order to avoid bruising your produce! Remember not to take produce from the front and top of the shelf in the supermarket. These are the items which are squeezed and mishandled by other shoppers. Better to get items from the back of the shelf or deeper in the pile. Best of luck with your cost saving. I wish I could do more dumpster diving myself - its always fun, but they lock the bins around my way!
I loved the haul! I wish we had lidl, but we dont ! please more of those videos!
Ahh, thank you. I have a few more videos out this week, including a lovely homeless guy interview. xx
Thanks for this video. Real as real gets, love it. I use Aldi and Lidl all the time. Gotta be clever and thoughtful what we buy these days, things got so bloody expensive last 3 years eh, no choice. Little changes like no more buying pasta sauces, but buy pasata and make my own, looking out for the deals, and the reduced labels; the 75% ones at Aldi are very handy. If I do end up in a Tesco they have their Aldi price match range which is helpful. I still swear to this day almost all branded stuff is the exact same stuff in the same factories, just maybe at times slightly wonkier, but it's the same food. I to this day cannot believe the price of Heinz ketchup vs unbranded. It's like 4 times more. Bonkers. Bless you x
You are so RIGHT! Heinz Ketchup is a rip-off! It's awful as everything we do now, is giving us a real think and so we put back that Cadbury's choc (i do RELUCTANTLY!!). Thank you, so much for your kind words. I have a few more videos out this week, including a lovely homeless guy interview. xx
Hi Lottie, is this a top up? I didn't see anything substantial, have you got other food at home?
Hi, thank you, for comments. Yes, we have eggs, potatoes and brown rice. The next shop will be salmon and chicken. I also DUMPSTER DIVE and last week at M&S we got 6 packs of Tilda brown rice DATE: 25/1/25. Couldn't believe they threw it! Also so many beautiful roses and flowers (slightly squashed), but still so colourful. It is difficult as my children all under 9 years old. You can see from my other video i got over a hundred boxes of Nescafe dumpster diving. I try my best and also my husband had heart attack last year so he drastically changed diet (veg/fish in the main). His work hours were reduced and as you can imagine, with 3 children, it's been difficult. We have not ever had any benefits and i dumpster dive to make extra money. Thank you, for your helpful advice it means a lot.
This wont keep for long so i can recommend those green bags for fridge storage they keep veg fresh for longer worth investing in a supply as u can rinse them out too...
Yes, i have those thank you, for that great tip!
I think once you do the shop, you should probably gives us a complete breakdown of what you plan to cook and how this looks for the week? Just an idea.
That's actually a very good idea. Thank you, for your very kind advice. The vegetables are cooked along side brown rice (small amount), and often in week a boiled egg for each child. We do eat a lot of vegetables, cooked with tomatoes. It is actually quite filling. I'm definitely going to do what you said on my next visit. Thanks again.
I've just subscribed .. I was waiting to see what u are making/made .. I second this I would love to see a meals of the week or a quick list ❤
@ Thank you, very much for your very kind comments and feedback. i will definitely do a shop and actually say each day what i will be cooking for my 3 children and husband. many thanks, again. xx
Why don't you go to a market? I do and it's half the price of lidle
People have no idea how to budget or cook
Great work,recipes would be good too,maybe Lotties food channel
Are they vegatarians ?
We try to eat as much veg as possible but no, we are not vegetarians. Children love eating peppers, onions and anything with lots of deep flavours. We often go crab fishing in the summer.
When you say pounds are they the same as US dollars?
Hi, thank you, for message. 82 pence (UK Sterling), is $1. So, shopping would have been very similar in currency. 🤩
@ you can get a lot for 26 pence nice job
@@KimmyMiller ha ha you mean £26 (pounds) as pence is 'cents'...ha ha. I love the US. I use to visit my family in Cali and i visited NY many many times. What state are you from? Tonight here in the UK it's FREEZING! MY BRAIN HAS FROSTBITE!! xx
literally says £1.89 for red grapes but okay 😂😂😂😂
YES YOU ARE SO RIGHT !!! i realised after. Thank you :)))
'Struggle food shop' - with blueberries, organic vine tomatoes and organic carrots! Branded dish washing soap, kitchen roll and luxury toilet paper - struggle? Yea right! No pasta, no pulses, no rice, no tins or frozen veg. You really need to learn to cook. No way this would feed five for a week!
Thank you, for that comment. Alongside of this food i cook brown rice and boiled eggs. Eggs are by donation from our neighbour farmer. We get around 12 eggs a fortnight. Toilet paper is not luxury, it's a good price for good 9 rolls. I will look into that as there was not anything cheaper. Fairy liquid goes a long way. Meals still need to be tasty and when i can get good price organic, i do buy it. Other tomatoes are tasteless in comparison. I have around 30 tins of kidney beans/garden peas from dumpster diving and YES 100% this food last a week, accompanied with eggs OR rice. Twins are ages 5 and my other child age 9. My husband had a heart attack last year and literally only eats veg/fish. As for cooking i am a very accomplished cook. I lived a nomadic life for over 2 years so we are, i am, use to making do. I love organic foods where i can as long as i don't go over budget. Next weeks shop is salmon (Lidl). We don't really eat pasta (once every few months. I appreciate all your helpful comments thank you.
@LottieLife-f3z A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Organic ingredients have very little nutritional difference to the non-organic, just require thorough washing (as do organic). Many 'organic' foods these days can be grown with (human) effluent as fertilizer. Salmon from most sources is farmed and is fed on industrially derived pellets which can contain contaminants which accumulate in the fish, also environmentally very bad. Tinned sardines, mackerel and pilchards (from a reputable source) are wild and therefore better. Pasta is exceptionally good value carbohydrate, kids love it, and its tasty if cooked correctly. Same for potatoes. Easy to grow great salad leaves and tomatoes (albeit in season) and many plants can be foraged for greens all year round. Tomato pasata, puree or tinned are also good value and tasty if Italian in origin. If you run a freezer then frozen food is also very good value and retains most nutrients since it is blast frozen close to harvest (particularly peas). You can also 'batch' cook with a freezer. (Put duvet or pilllow in a bin liner in the freezer, if the feezer isn't full). 'Fairy' liquid doesn't last longer - it's marketing hype. Kitchen roll is a complete waste of money better to buy 'Jeye' cloths and reuse. Toilet tissue can be bought wholesale for much less (24 or 36 rolls at a time, or be naughty and take from work! Sorry if my original criticisms were a bit rude, but you can save even more without changing your dietary tastes too much.
typical broad, she aint exactly a full box set is she i mean she has 5 kids and no man around lol cant even do OF , its over. post wall toll is being paid.
@Humanity101-zp4sq It was never rude of you ...You actually are SO right. Funny thing is i just got myself a job as a cleaner, i didn't want anything too taxing (brain ache!). Anyway, it's cleaning toilets and yes, there is a lot of toilet paper (it's a cash n carry)! Your comment was so funny ha ha. You are right about the jay cloths...i will go and buy these tomorrow. Last year when i was dumpster diving i found boxes (LOADS!), of washing up liquid but it had burst in boxes and leaked. I just threw them in car and sorted them out at home. Think i had around 30 or so, but sold most at car boot. I should have kept them. I never thought about pillow in liner! You are a wizard and i will defo do this. I do appreciate your feedback as it is always good to get someone elses perspective. thank you, for even taking the time to read and watch. 😍😍🥰🥰
@LottieLife-f3z No worries. Your comments are very kind. Glad to help. Freezers use most energy when you open them up, and cold air is exchanged with warm air from the room. You may have noticed that they cycle the compressor most times after the door has been opened. The pillow (in a bin liner to prevent it from getting wet) reduces the amount of warm air exchange. Many people use loaves of bread to achieve the same effect, but if you are not keen on bread, a pillow will do. A bit like putting a brick or a bottle of water in the toilet cistern to reduce flush volume and water wastage. Another good idea, although this requires some tweaking, is to put the freezer and/or fridge on a 24 hour resettable timer switch, then it will not cycle as often but still keep everything cold. You'd need a thermometer and experiment to see how much 'off cycle' you can get away with. Many fridges and freezers will cope with a 10 min 'off cycle' every hour, with no ill effect on the inside temperature, and considerable saving in electricity. Don't take too many toilet rolls at once - little and often and no one will know any different! It's worth being a little more careful when loading the trolley too, in order to avoid bruising your produce! Remember not to take produce from the front and top of the shelf in the supermarket. These are the items which are squeezed and mishandled by other shoppers. Better to get items from the back of the shelf or deeper in the pile. Best of luck with your cost saving. I wish I could do more dumpster diving myself - its always fun, but they lock the bins around my way!
Those blueberries aint 1.89, it says red grapes on the tag lol. Those bluberries are more like 2.99
I'm sorry YOU are right. I realised after i did video as i checked receipt and got price wrong! Thanks for pointing it out ha ha ...