Katie gave her daughter a £100 budget to buy whatever she wanted in the weekly Tesco food shop, but was stunned when she saw when came to her door when it was delivered
A mum was stunned after she gave her 10-year-old daughter £100 to spend on the weekly food shop. Katie, who posts on TikTok under the username @katielouise96, explained how she gave her daughter the responsibility of doing the weekly food shop online at Tesco.
She gave her daughter a £100 budget and asked her to get seven dinners for the week ahead, but didn’t sit with her while she added the items to her online basket to be delivered to their home in Sussex. The mum said she “didn’t have a clue” what was being delivered until she recorded a video with her daughter showing what had arrived.
Katie said: “She had to get seven dinners, she had a budget and the only thing I asked for was washing up liquid.”
First the 10-year-old girl pulled out some cheese, potatoes, one tin of tuna and another of beans for the family to have some jacket potatoes one evening.
The second meal included frozen scampi bites, chips and one packet of Batchelors cheese and broccoli pasta and sauce. The girl said: “I got this [pasta and sauce] for me, then you can have an empty plate.” Katie joked: “Okay, I’m getting a takeaway.”
The little girl then pulled spaghetti, beef mince and chopped tomatoes with the plan of making spaghetti Bolognese’s for the family.
The fourth meal left Katie in stitches as her daughter pulled out of the bag two small gluten-free steak pies to go with the frozen chips she had already mentioned.
Katie’s daughter said: “I just picked a random one.” Katie replied: “That’s okay, you have free will.”
Katie’s daughter then said she would use the same chips to go with a meat-feat pizza for a fifth meal, and also picked up a sixth meal of some protein plant powered wraps and a bag of chicken thighs to make wraps.
For the final meal the 10-year-old got carrots, a bag of potatoes with garlic and butter and to her mum’s disbelief, three steaks, one rib-eye and two sirloin, which added up to around £40 of the budget according to the child.
She also got some pre-cooked meat, Attack a Snak’s for her lunch, two lots of ice creams, bourbons, organic semi-skimmed milk and some fruit and veg. She went £2 over her budget, but the total included delivery.
Other parents all said the same thing to Katie in the comments section, adding that her daughter did much better at the weekly food shop than most adults.
One user said: “I’m 33, and she did better than me. I had a KitKat for my dinner yesterday.”
Another added: “She did better than most adults!” A third penned: “No cos she actually did so well! My 11-year-old would have got the jacket potatoes and not thought to get the stuff to go on it! I bet she doesn’t even know what’s in a spag bol.”
One user asked: “Awh! love her, she did amazing. Does she cook with you as well? I taught my son how to cook at a really young age and he loved it.”
Katie replied: “Sometimes she does, but she has asked me if she can cook all the meals she chose this week so will happily let her.”
Another person said: “She did really well and its so wholesome but honestly good on you mum, this is a great way to teach some independence and self control.
“So many kids her age would have no idea what goes into the most basic of dinners, she did great I hope you’re proud of her and yourself.”
