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The price of my groceries at the English shop!
OK, so call me sad but today I went to the English shop to stock up a bit. Thought I would compare the cost here and at Tescos.
I bought the following.... 3 tins beans, 2 tins spagetti, one sachet Angel Delight, 2 packs buttons, a flake, pickled onions, pickled beetroot, birds custard, jar of mint sauce and some HP sauce. The cost at Tesco 8.07 Cost at the English shop $46.78 !!!!!!!!! :scared: :scared: Now tell me a good business to open. |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by bored-silly
OK, so call me sad but today I went to the English shop to stock up a bit. Thought I would compare the cost here and at Tescos.
I bought the following.... 3 tins beans, 2 tins spagetti, one sachet Angel Delight, 2 packs buttons, a flake, pickled onions, pickled beetroot, birds custard, jar of mint sauce and some HP sauce. The cost at Tesco 8.07 Cost at the English shop $46.78 !!!!!!!!! :scared: :scared: Now tell me a good business to open. |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
Just picked up a few things today, Heinz baked beans $2.08 a can, Walkers crisps 90c, supply and demand I guess....Can you not get pickled beetroot at your American store?
I feel like I got a bargin on the beans now - $1.60! |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
Just picked up a few things today, Heinz baked beans $2.08 a can, Walkers crisps 90c, supply and demand I guess....Can you not get pickled beetroot at your American store?
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by mandpete
Heinz beans $1.39 a can at Wegmans. :p
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
They can pay me in beans, a hill of beans :rolleyes:
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Prices like these make me glad I have weened myself off most things except for PG Tipps which cost me $6.99 at Cost Plus. I did see that there is a new dark chocolate flake, but at $2.09 I wasn't about to try one. I think at christmas we spent more than $10 on a tiny can of spotted dick and a small packet of custard in the Brit store as a gag gift to one of my brother in laws.
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by bored-silly
OK, so call me sad but today I went to the English shop to stock up a bit. Thought I would compare the cost here and at Tescos.
I bought the following.... 3 tins beans, 2 tins spagetti, one sachet Angel Delight, 2 packs buttons, a flake, pickled onions, pickled beetroot, birds custard, jar of mint sauce and some HP sauce. The cost at Tesco 8.07 Cost at the English shop $46.78 !!!!!!!!! :scared: :scared: Now tell me a good business to open. |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by Eskimo
Thought you were on a diet ? whos the flake for ? is it on your graph ?
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
I want a Milky Bar... where the eff is the Milky Bar Kid when you need him?
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by bored-silly
Who are you - the diet police?
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
It's better than the chocolate button inspector :D
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
OK, I brought some fry's chocolate cream, crunchies, flakes, fruit pastiles, dairy milk (with oraange crisp), extra strong mints and lockets back at xmas.
Was going to ration them to myself over the next few months, but am prepared to sell them to the highest bidder now. Who'll start me at $50 for the lot ?? No time wasters please :) |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
OK, I brought some fry's chocolate cream, crunchies, flakes, fruit pastiles, dairy milk (with oraange crisp), extra strong mints and lockets back at xmas.
Was going to ration them to myself over the next few months, but am prepared to sell them to the highest bidder now. Who'll start me at $50 for the lot ?? No time wasters please :) |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by anotherlimey
I want a Milky Bar... where the eff is the Milky Bar Kid when you need him?
and lordy, did not know about dark chocolate flake. that's the stuff of dreams, that is! :D |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
OK, I brought some fry's chocolate cream, crunchies, flakes, fruit pastiles, dairy milk (with oraange crisp), extra strong mints and lockets back at xmas.
Was going to ration them to myself over the next few months, but am prepared to sell them to the highest bidder now. Who'll start me at $50 for the lot ?? No time wasters please :) |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Pay for a cheap return ticket for a family member and the condition of them coming is they have to bring at least one huge suitcase full of all your supplies - pickled beets and onions, huge catering size HP sauce, 100 packets of angel delight, 500 bars or chocolate :D
I bet you would find it cheaper. Or you could do what has already been suggested and change your taste buds a little and compromise with American alternatives ;) |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by cutina
ooh, I've got two dairy milk with crunchie bits, a lyons golden syrup and a lyons ginger cake, a slab of mature lancs, chedder, and wenslydale and some spiced stilton with sultanas, and that's just the stuff i remember.... we shuld join forces, make a hamper and rake it in.....!:eek:
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by Bradford Lass
How do you get real cheese in?
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by cutina
er.... i dunno :o
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
I spent $40 on the gubbins for a full english breakfast at the weekend... first time the fiance has had it... she says she'll never eat fried bread again but the rest was bearable.
also spent a further $40 on biscuits, chocolates, branston, hp & egg cups. |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by Bradford Lass
How do you get real cheese in?
Would you like a block ?? $25 please :) |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by Bradford Lass
So you're bluffing! I have lots of yorkshire tea
they have eyes everywhere, you know... and i have a license with them for research; don't want it revoked!!! |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by Pimpbot
Prices like these make me glad I have weened myself off most things except for PG Tipps which cost me $6.99 at Cost Plus. I did see that there is a new dark chocolate flake, but at $2.09 I wasn't about to try one. I think at christmas we spent more than $10 on a tiny can of spotted dick and a small packet of custard in the Brit store as a gag gift to one of my brother in laws.
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
I brought back 4lbs of mature coleraine cheddar in my luggage (no sh*t).
Would you like a block ?? $25 please :) |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by Bradford Lass
How do you get real cheese in?
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
I brought back 4lbs of mature coleraine cheddar in my luggage (no sh*t).
Would you like a block ?? $25 please :) |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by USBound
she says she'll never eat fried bread again
Spurred on by the pastry thread on here lsat week i shall be making sausage rolls on saturday. I like to spread these treats out, so I'll prob have a fry up sometime near the end of march - i have plenty of cheese and branston to do me til then anyway :) |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by bored-silly
Who are you - the diet police?
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by Bradford Lass
Do you do wraps?
Would you like an 'enry (the eigth) or a louis (the 16th) ?? |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by bored-silly
You can bring a huge amount of hard cheese in - check the customs website, you'll be amazed.
I didn't know that. The thrill has gone now :( |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by bored-silly
You can bring a huge amount of hard cheese in - check the customs website, you'll be amazed.
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
Really ??
I didn't know that. The thrill has gone now :( |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by cutina
phew! i still lied at customs, i was afraid they'd take it off me. I read the website, but it says for countries affected with BSE it varies and you have to check upon departure. Nice to know i was legal after all....
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by Eskimo
yes .. yes I am. Please send me your graph or the tit tape picture gets posted :D
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Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by cutina
you'll have to move on to unpasturised or soft cheese... :eek:
Its probably going to be more comfortable for me to hide that stuff too :eek: |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
:scared:
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
Ooh - i like it
Its probably going to be more comfortable for me to hide that stuff too :eek: |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by Bradford Lass
Did you ever think you'd be risking it all for hard bloody cheese?
give me a friggin break!:p (and there was no blood- i don't think it's allowed) |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by cutina
well, if you lie about it, and you knowingly bring something you shouldn't, it's a 10,000$ fine... a large sum for a bit of cheese
give me a friggin break!:p (and there was no blood- i don't think it's allowed) |
Re: The price of my groceries at the English shop!
Originally Posted by Bradford Lass
I'll get me coat
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