As the cost-of-living crisis continues to worsen, Brits are looking for any way to cut costs and one woman was shocked to find how much food she could get for just £5 cash at her local Aldi.
A MyLondon reporter set out to try to buy a weekly shop from the budget supermarket chain after seeing a fellow shopper do the same. Alongside budget chain Lidl, Aldi is often the first port of call for shoppers who want to get their food shopping for as cheap as possible.
Posting under the Cost of Living Crisis Tips on Tiktok, one budgeter previously shared their weekly shop from Aldi which totaled at a meagre £4.97. The food haul included penne pasta, spaghetti, bourbon creams, baked beans, chopped tomatoes, tinned garden peas, cornflakes, a loaf of bread, two tins of rice pudding and long grain rice.
When viewers what meals would be made, the creator responded: "Tomato pasta, rice and peas, beans on toast, rice pudding etc." They further highlighted that this meal plan would focus more on surviving than nutrition.
"This video is about surviving on £5 for the week," they commented, "not 'having a nutritional protein rich diet for £5 a week.'"
As reported by Leicester Live, Amber-Louise Large visited her local Aldi to see if she could also do a £5 weekly shop with different items. Here's what she said: "The food I ended up adding to my basket was enough for seven dinners for one person.
"The meal plan started with baked beans (23p - one big tin split between two days) on baked potatoes (19p each) with crispy leaf salad (57p).
"On Wednesday and Thursday I planned to eat pasta (a bag of penne was 35p) with stir in sauce (65p - one jar split between two days) and the remainder of the salad as a side. The most expensive food item was a bag of frozen chicken goujons for £1.25.
"I planned to eat the chicken goujons with garden peas (21p) and home-made carrot chips (29p for a big bag of carrots) on Saturday and a 66p pepperoni pizza on Sunday. That left just about enough to pay for a 36p loaf of bread.
"So I managed to cover dinner - but what about lunch? I could perhaps have toast for breakfast but did not have enough money left for butter so would need to rely on already having some in the fridge.
"No matter how careful I was, the items in my basket added up quickly and the meals were small.
"It was also difficult to ensure I had some protein in my diet: if I added fresh meat to the basket half of my budget was already gone. The cheapest items were mostly carbs: potatoes, pasta, pizza.
"It was practically impossible to get a well-rounded weekly shop for under a fiver, even in Aldi, but I was impressed with just how much I could get."
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