grocery bill
I know this isn't completely baby related, but can I be nosey and ask how much you spend on groceries each week, and how big your family is. I know there has been a couple related comments, but just wanted to see if I am spending a reasonable amount or if I really should push myself harder to spend less. I feel like I spend a horrible amount.
I spend usually 60 pounds just on food and formula (not including nappies and wipes that is about 10 pounds more each week) for a family of four. I do make a menu but I do also let us get a couple of treats too.
Thank you
I spend usually 60 pounds just on food and formula (not including nappies and wipes that is about 10 pounds more each week) for a family of four. I do make a menu but I do also let us get a couple of treats too.
Thank you
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We couldn't get that down anymore if we tried too, so I don't think 60 a week is to bad at all!!
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We certainly don't eat gourmet but we do like our food and cook fresh every day.
OH is a butcher and has seen some things in abbatoirs/meat halls that has put me off ever eating meat from supermarket again.
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[Modified by: Garfield on January 09, 2009 03:05 PM]
thats not including nappies/wet wipes. No need for formula!
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We do buy store brands though and save money there. And go for whatever is on offer brand wise.
It is tricky but it was my choice to return to work partt ime and we have to be VERY careful! We have NO luxuries or treats unless there are less essentials to buy that week!
We bulk buy, so say sharwood Indian sauce half price we will buy like 10jars. 8bags of bread flour etc.We buy online, you can compare prices/weight....also I spend less.
We make sure we only do a monthly shop for groceries. I do weekly shops for fruit+veg from local farm shop which totals to less than ??10 a week. Plan our meals ahead so no vegetables go off/to waste. Buy from butchers in bulk too.
Ilovemygeek...see if they do deals. Our butcher does 5lb deals. I usually buy 5lb and they out into 1lb bags for me....mince, bacon, chicken breast (2 per bag), sausages (6perbag). Sometimes get pork chops. Hubby family live on farm so it has to be nice and fresh meat we eat!
grocery monthly bill ??60-80 (depends what we are out off). ??50butchers (lasts 1-1.5mths) ??35 vegetables. This is for hubby and I and 8mth old daughter. xxx
If any one is interested...its costs 28p a loaf to make it homemade, a yr to get your money back for breadmaker...really worth it (my friend asked me to work out costs for her!). We also have our yogurt maker now which means yogurt for weaning is real cheap too.
There are 7 of us - me, dh, dd1 (8), dd2 (7), ds1 (4), ds2 (nearly 2) & ds3 (nearly 7wks)......oh, and Melody, the cat We shop at Sainsbury's, (I like Asda too but don't go there unless I know I have enough to look at clothes lol a lot of the kids stuff is lovely!).
we do a big shop every other month which costs anything between ??200-??250 depending on how many treats we allows ourselves to have.
in between shops we get a top up of fresh veg which we'll spend about ??40 on, so in total, breaking it down into a monthly cost it is about ??150 a month.
We do a lot of bulk buying when things are on offer, we grow our own in summer and freeze it if we can do, and we tend to buy own brands and/or value ranges - eg the tesco value chicken breasts are NO different to the branded ones and they;re half the price... go figure (they're also mahoosive compared to branded ones...)
occasionally we'll buy a lamb from the local butcher, or a meat pack from the market guy but we mainly use netto, lidl and tescos for our food.
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