Going shopping yesterday

As you all know I went shopping for groceries that should last us the entire month. I ended up going yesterday October 1st instead of today October 2nd because I thought it would probably be better to go the first day of the month.

I ended up getting a lot of stuff and stayed pretty close to my budget.

Here is a picture of the receipt.

  The 5 quid off voucher really helped out. Although on the receipt it looks like I used 5 quid and then paid another 43 quid but the 5 quid was the voucher.  They pretty much treated it like cash.
My budget was 40 quid and I paid a total of 43.01 quid, not too bad.  There were some items I probably didn't need to buy but bought them anyway.  For example I bought three pints of greek yogurt.  I am crazy about greek yogurt and it was the first place that I've seen that actually carries it in large quantities and for a fair price.  Aldi is definitely way cheaper than all the other stores but I have yet to decide on the quality, so far it seems to be about the same but I've only made one meal so far. Check out Aldi's website here. : https://www.aldi.co.uk

I bought a good amount of meats but in retrospect I probably bought too many types of ground meat and not enough cuts.  I ended up getting ground beef and turkey to make different type of meatballs and burgers.  I bought a big cut of pork shoulder and three 1.25kg chickens.
I then bought a good amount of fruit and veggies.  I bought a lot of potatoes, probably more than I can eat in a month, a lot of mushrooms, tomatoes and a big bag of onions (my husband loves onions) and a pack of garlic.  I also bought a basil plant.  I think I"ll also buy rosemary and thyme next month but for now basil will have to do.  I also bought lots of dried and canned goods such as pasta, rice, beans etc.   Vegetable wise I ended up buying more frozen vegetables because I figured the veggies would go bad quickly in the fridge.  I did buy zucchini, broccoli, carrots and cabbage but I'll cook those soon and keep them in the fridge.  I bought a huge thing of Bran Cereal (gotta get my fiber) and loads of bread.  Here are a few pictures of my haul.

It was a pretty big haul and I'm really thankful for my neighbor who gave me a lift.  She was super nice about everything.  All in all I'm pretty happy with the amount of food I was able to buy for a reasonable cost.   Here's hoping I can make it a whole month without stepping into a grocery store.