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.