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Bethan Shufflebotham

Money-savvy Aldi shopper shows how far £5 stretches at the 'cheapest supermarket'

A money-savvy Aldi shopper has stunned customers after completing a weekly food shop for just £5. A seemingly impossible task, deals expert Tom Church proved sceptical social media users wrong, stocking up his fridge for a fiver.

The co-founder and chief bargain hunter at Latest Deals headed to Aldi - recently named the cheapest supermarket in the UK for the ninth month in a row - to show shoppers exactly how far their money can stretch when push comes to shove.

Tom took £5 to the discount supermarket and bought all he needed for a weekly shop and explained how much it cost in a TikTok video on the LatestDeals account.

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In the clip, Tom whizzed around the supermarket picking up 48p rice, 28p spaghetti, 32p chopped tomatoes and 63p corn flakes. While his shop didn’t include any meat - which often pushes up the price of a weekly shop - it still showed off some of Aldi’s low prices that could help families struggling as inflation hits.

Here’s everything Tom bought in his Aldi shop:

  • Everyday Essentials Long Grain Rice 1kg - 48p

  • Everyday Essentials Spaghetti 500g - 28p

  • Everyday Essentials Penne Pasta 500g - 41p

  • Everyday Essentials Garden Peas 300g - 24p

  • Everyday Essentials Chopped Tomatoes 400g - 32p

  • Sun Quench Double Strength Squash 1.5l - 89p

  • Everyday Essentials Rice Pudding 400g - 24p

  • Belmont Custard Creams 300g - 49p

  • Harvest Morn Corn Flakes 500g - 63p

  • Everyday Essentials Medium Sliced Wholemeal bread 39p

  • Cucina Bolognese sauce 500g - 65p

This comes to a total of £5.02 – which people in the comment section struggled to believe.

One person said: "Why so cheap?" while another added: "Man I wish all shops are like this."

A third commented: "It's what you can have for five pounds and 2p but yeah get lots, and even you spent 40 pounds it would last you 2weeks and half."

Some people noted that it was "old prices" and that you would "be lucky to get that for £5 in 2023".

Tom’s video was uploaded to the platform in January, but The Mirror has checked the prices against Aldi's online prices – and most of them are still exactly the same.

There were only three differences – the rice pudding was 1p more expensive, at 25p, the Custard Creams were 11p cheaper at 38p and the Bolognese was 85p, 20p more expensive than in the video.

If the same shop was done with Aldi's online prices, that would come to a total of £5.12 – only slightly more expensive than in January.

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