What do others who buy, from Suma or similar, buy to get the best value for money??

Three of us from our Home Ed group are doing an orer every 2 months and I'm trying to work out exactly what we are best of buying in bulk to last over the next two months, as we sem to constantly need to go food shopping atm…

I can only afford to spend about £100 (and could quite easily spend about 4 times that looking at then catalogue and thinking about what we need  :o)

So our list of essentials looks like this:
1kg or 3kg bags of dried fruit/nuts/muesli/rice/quinoa/lentils/seeds
Flour
1 x case of Oat milk
5litre bottle of washing up liquid
1x case of whole earth baked beans
1x case of agave syrup
1x case of organic sugar free jam
1x case of pasta
1 x case of redbush or herbal tea depending on what we need

And I'm wondering what other families buy in as essentials??
Gina xxx

:(  Actually don't tell me what you''re buying as it will make me feel even more fed up…we've just worked out all our outgoings for the 1st of the month and we can't afford to place a suma order at all  :( It's so frustrating as we 'need' so many staple things in bulk but just can't afford to make up the order…arrgghhh…I am sick of worrying about money >:(

But do tell me what you are ordering really as I'd still like to know!
Gina xxx

I'd love to buy from Suma or a food co-op but I can't find anyone to go in with me, can't make up the minimum on my own and there's no established food co-op here  >:( but if I could, I'd buy baked beans, tins of chopped tomatoes, flour: strong white, strong wholemeal, plain white, plain wholemeal, spelt, self-raising, pasta, rice, noodles, sugar, tea, peppermint tea, mushroom pate, oat cakes, rice cakes… I think those are our main staples, though I may have forgotten something obvious!

Hi
We buy from lembas in sheffield. Just happened to go last week (stocking before baby arrives)
We bought
25kg brown rice
5kg Puy Lentils
Clipper FT tea- about 6 boxes (FT tastes better than organic to me- and I am fussy over my tea)
Ecover nonbio 10kgs
Faith in Nature Dishwasher gel 5L
Ecover toilet cleaner 5L
Dried cranberries 2kg
Bouillion marigold- the low salt vegan one X6
Arborio rice 5kg
Cashews 1kg
Rocks Squash x6
Faith shampoo & condidittioner
TVP 2 Kgs
wnated 2 boxes of tofu- but they only had the smoked

Also usually have in
Couscous
Quinoa
Red lentils
Butterbeans
Mixed fruit/sultanas
Ecover multipurpose
Ecover handwash

We usually go twice a year (ish)- such as the rice will last us a year. Ecover stuff about a years supply- not dishwasher though.

We buy from Infinity Foods. Usually we order things like:

rice milk
soya milk
oats
walnuts
gluten free pasta
spelt flour
Organix/Lyme Regis toddler snack bars
Seed and nut bars
Organica chocolate bars
brown rice
tinned tomatoes or jars of passata
jars of olives
tinned mixed beans
essential oils
toilet rolls

Sam x

I buy all my ecover stuff - fabric softener, washing up liquid and washing powder (the secret is to rotate so you don't have a big expense at once)
3 cases of soya milk
mixed omega 3 seeds which we roast with soya sauce for a very cheap 'Food Doctor' substitute 
dried bananas and mango - again rotate so they don't both come at once
dried fruit bars, panda licorice and the clearspring fruit desserts for dd as a pudding when I can't be arsed to make anything
doves farm flour
3kg sugar
baking powder and bicarb
tinned tomatoes / baked beans
vanilla pods / turmeric and corriander
sugar free jam / JUST jelly crystals and herbal teas.

I order every 2 months, but usually spend around #80 by choosing a selection of the above (apart from soya milk, which is always 3 cases every 2 months)

I could easily spend #600 - 800 just on us  :o

We order from 'daily bread', which is a food co-op in northampton, who deliver to us at a friends house, when we order as a group.
(http://www.dailybread.co.uk in case anyone lives near northampton - they've also got a store in cambridge - and didn't know they were nearby.)
Normally our shopping list (once every 3 months or so although you can ring up at any time and have delivery made to your adress as opposed to the buying groups) consists of:
Suma pasta sauce (can buy boxes of 6, so cuts the costs)
Zest pasta sauce (again, in boxes of 6)
Tinned goods like green lentils and chickpeas for whizzing up homus.
Occassional 'vegi-deli' stuff for when Mum'll be over soon (she's vegan, and has been for over 15 years)
Giant bags of raisins (dd gets through loads, as she has them with natural yogurt for brekkie, and in bowls during the day as snacks.)
Bulk bags (5kg!!) porridge oats and museli. (we like museli in the summer/autumn and porridge in spring/winter, so what we order depends on season for this one.)
6 boxes per time of 'Gorrila Munch', as DD and TH (and myself) like the odd sugar fix… plus it's also ethical flavour!

Comes to about £30 per time, so if you divide that up over a 3month period (into 12 weeks) its a spend of only £2.50 per week!
:o