50p a day til christmas, healthily?!-Weezl's next challenge (part 2)

cw18

By jove I've done it...... I've only gone and done it......


Didn't give DH any input as to what we had for tea after looking through 5 months of meals...... but I did it :T



month........meal av (p) drop in month(p)...as %age.....drop since June (p).....%age of June
June.......... 76.1160
July............68.5428..........7.57.................9.95
Aug............65.6829..........2.86.................4.17................10.43.....................13.71
Sept...........61.6466..........4.04.................6.15................14.47.....................19.01
Oct............49.9743........11.67...............18.93................26.14.....................34.34

Kentishmaid_2

cw18 wrote: »

By jove I've done it...... I've only gone and done it......


Didn't give DH any input as to what we had for tea after looking through 5 months of meals...... but I did it :T



month........meal av (p) drop in month(p)...as %age.....drop since June (p).....%age of June
June.......... 76.1160
July............68.5428..........7.57.................9.95
Aug............65.6829..........2.86.................4.17................10.43.....................13.71
Sept...........61.6466..........4.04.................6.15................14.47.....................19.01
Oct............49.9743........11.67...............18.93................26.14.....................34.34

Well done, you must be so proud of yourself, I'm so envious.:T Can't get anywhere near weezl spends this week as everyone had got to Tesco before me and cleared the shelves. Was in sainsburys with work this morning and it was manic. Is there a country wide party and I've been forgotten? Will have to make some more chutney as I find it very calming.

Kentishmaid

cw18

That's only for our main (cooked) meals -- but given I reckoned I needed at least a pound a head for this meal to produce a balanced diet (from getting my first place in 1987, right through to the middle of last year) I'm really pleased to have managed this

And it was the target I set myself when I found this thread, as I knew 50p/day would be unrealistic as there's no way DH or DS consider they've been fed if they have more than one 'meat free' day a week !!!

An awful lot of the reduction has come from weighing everything, which means I can monitor portion sizes more carefully -- and I make sure that any extra portions are cooled and put into a freezer as soon as poss, instead of finding them growing cultures at the back of the fridge a week later.

I actually can't believe how little food I'm binning these days, and compared to friends and family we didn't throw much at all even 2 or 3 years back !!

In_Search_Of_Me

well done cw...I believe you may have found your inner geek!!! Been a bit quiet here of late and hope people are ok...people like mrs m, c, shaz all been very quiet...as has our weezl...it could be that the latter has frozen because its absolutely freezing here today!

shaz_mum_of__2

wow cheryl thats truly geeky maths!!

Well done on achieving your target,my hubby is dead supportive of my mini challenges generally and we both could be quite happy veggies except for the smell of bacon buttys and occasional steak dinners

Been quiet this week as had MIL staying for first time we seem to have persuaded her to move to be nearer to us just hope she doesn't change her mind when she gets home today

Seing how frail she has got will mean i will be worrying about her a lot til its sorted,she lives a 5 hour drive away which is bad enough without it being an emergency


marmalade making here and a bit of shopping and finally get my diagnosis today re my trapped nerve in my neck(6 months later)

sick pay ends next week and the rules have changed re incapacity benefits ..............i feel more belt tightening coming on!!


Shaz

phizzimum

cw18 wrote: »

By jove I've done it...... I've only gone and done it......



well done cw!

especially when you think how prices have been going up during that time.

it's provided much needed inspiration for me. my meal planning has gone a bit hay wire this week. half term has come and gone and I was very grateful to have various meals stashed in the freezer, but now I need to stock up again.

Lesley_Gaye

well done cw. I'm still on my food replacement diet, and playing all kinds of head games with myself, so I don't do it properly - which makes it even more expensive than it already is.

I can't wait to get this stage done and over with and get back to doing proper food and being a frugalista again - I will then break out the spreadsheets and get geeky

everyone is being very quiet here lately, hope all ok

ceridwen

Hiya ISOM and all the "merry band"

Still around - been spending a bit of time on t'other threads. In the "real world" the food spend saving work at present consists of getting my act together properly re growing a bit. Have now got myself a "square foot gardening kit" (ie readymade "bed") that I must have a go at making up tomorrow. All being well that I like it - I'll send off for another one. The theory is that 2 of the 4 square feet beds will provide pretty much all the veg. required by one person - did read only t'other day of someone who was feeding a family most of their veg from a "bed" 8' x 12'. So - if I can get my planning right then it should be possible in theory - apart from the potatoes (and I've bought three of the collapsible container thingies for them). I've basically decided that I've got such a tiny, ugly, heavily overlooked little back garden that - with the best will in the world - it will never be a "thing of beauty" whatever I do - so might as well treat it as Permaculture Central for growing all possible food in it.

boredofbeingathome

cw18 wrote: »

By jove I've done it...... I've only gone and done it......


Didn't give DH any input as to what we had for tea after looking through 5 months of meals...... but I did it :T



month........meal av (p) drop in month(p)...as %age.....drop since June (p).....%age of June
June.......... 76.1160
July............68.5428..........7.57.................9.95
Aug............65.6829..........2.86.................4.17................10.43.....................13.71
Sept...........61.6466..........4.04.................6.15................14.47.....................19.01
Oct............49.9743........11.67...............18.93................26.14.....................34.34

:T congrats cheryl.That is very impressive and inspirational.

tinypawz

Hi Weelz and co

I've been a serial lurker for some time now, and have just finished reading the first challenge (2ppl for £40pm) and I am seriously in awe:j .

I'm a single mum (2yr old) and my monthly shop is £100+....rediculous:mad: , I think.

I have now got a notebook of recipes and ideas thanks to you lot....and I hope to get lots more to come.

It'll take me a while to catch up with this post....days I imagine, but just wanted to let you know, that you are all wonderful!!!!:T :T :T