food bill for 5 - is £35 a week unrealistic?

MATH

Yup- this budget is do-able. We are a family of 5 and I can feed us all and buy cleaning stuff for £30-40 using £5 in vouchers.

Debras_Angel

:j I do love these forums...where else can you get from the 'Foodbill for 5 a week to moon cups, it made me chuckle swampytigga!

JCr16 I was with you there and glad you asked the question as I had no idea what it was either and I'm not exactly a spring chicken!

I applaud you if you can manage on £35 a week for 5 of you.


:xmassign: Debs

swampytiggaa

well - I might start off aiming for the £50 and then cut it down - that might be an idea.....

funny - another forum i use a lot of threads derail into mooncup discussions :snow_laug must be me :snow_laug

Petal_3

I think the Mooncup is fantastic!


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Good Luck with the food budget....we're not able to do that for 2 adults and 1 li'l un...but bottles of wine do get in the way :rotfl:

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Debras_Angel

Must ask my friends if they've heard of a mooncup.

Good luck with the budget, although you won't need it as I reckon your a true MSE'r going by what you have posted already.

Debs

jcr16

how about this then , take £50 cash with u so u can't spend anymore than that . then if u do come under £50. keep what is left in a pot in the house. her emergancies like ran out of milk , bread etc. and if u have say £4 left by following week , then only withdraw £46 from the bank. and keep all recipets so at the end of the month you can see how well u did.

i hope that makes sence. it does to me.

hth

swampytiggaa

thanks for all the encouragement any advice/tips gratefully accepted

swampytiggaa

well then - just back from Tesco - I have spent £49-45 for this week - which includes a dvd for DH [£7-97] a birthday present for DS to take to a party tomorrow [£3-97] as well as some wrapping paper/gift tags and sellotape [£3-08 altogether] which makes £34-35 for my basic shopping

so sort of on target - gives me hope for the future!

jcr16

well done u :j

UltraCheap_2

Another option is to hop into Sainsburys in the evening (usually around 9:30 ish, sometimes earlier/later) and buy produce and pre-made meals at Reduced to Clear. The prices can get as low as 10p for organic potatoes, carrots, brocolli etc, and almost always in good condition. Also, if you find a few items in the reduced to clear that are on a special deal (say buy 3 and get one free) then hopefully the items will be rung up as the Reduced to clear price, and then the full price of one of them will be deducted, which often makes all three of them free. This only works if each barcode is scanned in, if the person behind the counter enters the price manually then no deal. I also buy produce at local markets and get great prices, usually paying around £15 or so per week for groceries for two people.