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your weekly shop?
how much do you spend on your weekly shop? its just me , my husband and my son who is 13 months next week. we seemt o be spending 100 pound a week at mo!!!!! i dont no how?
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Also go to diff shops for diff things, iceland sell 4 pints of milk for ??1... whereas tesco is ??1.50! We go through 2 a week! Eeek.
I dont buy baby milk in this shop (its a new expense as Lizzie is only 7 weeks old and was breast fed for 3 weeks) and i use the child benefit for this and nappies but ??100 feeds me,hubby and our 4 year old for a month x
we dont but branded stuff much. and buy ice cream splits for puddings. we also get some stuff to make our iown bread and i make all meals from stracth and it saves a fortune, for instance its ??1 for ready meal and its 49p for a 5kg bag of potatoes in aldi at mo which will make lots of meals-fat free chips (im doiung sw) jacket potatoes, roast spuds, potatoe pie, mash. also buying bags of pasta and adding cheap tuna or buying peppers and stuffing them with cheap couscous makes tasty cheap meals.
also if i make cottage pie we have what we want and freeze the rest as we found we chuck so much away!
TBH its the petrol thats crucifying our finances at the minute!
when little one arrives in july i plan on BF'ing so not much extra grocery money needed there hopefully how do some of you spend ??70-80 a week!?!?! what on earth do you buy!
but i am lucky enough to live by asda, morrissions, iceland, farmfoods and tesco so i tend to have an afternoon where i go to each and buy all the offers at the mo farmfoods have 4pts of milk for 1 or for ??1.50!!!!!!!!!!!! and loafs of hovis for ??1!!!!!!! i buy food for meals rather than ready made also we eat quite plain like cheese and pot pie, chicken curry and rice i love my slow cooker to and do cassarole we love sausage mash and beans so thats cheap to as for lo i buy swede waffles and fish fingers he loves pasta so we eat fairly cheap, i buy all the biscuits and cakes when they are on offer.
I am thinking of having a monthly plan and a budget so we can see where we can save.
That's for me, hubby and 18month old son.
I make all meals from scratch and do packed lunches each day for hubby and I at work. I find buying tons of fresh fruit and veg for lo adds loads to our bill. Also all the Organix finger foods crisps and biscuits aren't cheap.
I'd love to cut it down to about ??40 each week so I'm going to keep an eye on this thread for some hints and tips. S x
i buy 7 meals that i can cook (Spag bol x3, saus casserole, chicken casserole, sweet n sour, curry) and a lot of freezer food that will do other days. also buy things like baked potatoes, corned beef and potatoes for stovies, lots of cold meat and sandwich filler for sandwiches/baked pots and a couple of tins of soup. i try not to buy snacky foods bar a multipack of crisps, a pack of biscuits like kit kats, a couple of packets of supernoodles, we just buy alot of fruit for snacks and yogs for after lunch and dinner (we buy asda owns brand angel delight and jelly for puddings) we buy asda smart price fromage frais and asdas own brand yogs which are yum. we dont buy fizzy juice or sweets etc. erm...we buy asda smart price toilet roll, asdsa own brand hair shampoo n conditioner (coconut one which is lovely and is pretty good for ??1 a bottle!) asda own shower gel...los wash stuff is asda own baby shampoo, baby bath and baby wash which last a couple of months. only thing we HAVE to buy branded is toothpaste lol! i always get colgate or aquafresh. if we run out of something which we didnt need to buy at the time of the 2 week shop then we use tax creds money to buy it but it rarely happens. we use ohs wages to buy the first 2 week shop and then after than we try and make the 2nd 2 week shop alot smaller (we buy that one weekly insted of in a 2 week bundle) using tax creds money.
that was a bit of an essay but ive only just discovered budgeting food and i love it LOL. we shop online as can get alot cheaper things and arent tempted to buy rubbish xxxx
i dont buy ready meals they too exspensive but make alot of meals.
i try and shop on my own as it would just cost twice as much with older kids lol
My DD eats pretty much the same as us, but more fruit and she is particularly partial to pricier fruits such as mango, pineapple and strawberries!
I budget this much, and am able to buy what I like to although I do buy in bulk for certain offers such as toilet paper and kitchen roll as MrsAmanda says.
I don't use a particular supermarket, but often go to Morrisson's as it is the nearest
i do plan the meals for the week before going food shopping we dont buy ready meal's occasionally buy a pizza but we always have snacks, fizzy drinks, ect included as well.
i make our bread in a bread machine which works out a lot cheaper than buying bread