Grocery Shopping budget thread

Doom_and_Gloom

tinktinktinkerbell wrote: »

of course it matter when on a low income :rotfl:

For goodness sake my partner and I eat a very good diet and it is cheap too. As I have already said we spend about £100/month and that includes cleaning products, toiletry products and chinchilla stuff.
We are on a low income and because we are on a low income we can not afford to buy junk foods, ready meals, takeaways etc.
Food how it should be is cheaper.

Eric_Pisch

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

For goodness sake my partner and I eat a very good diet and it is cheap too. As I have already said we spend about £100/month and that includes cleaning products, toiletry products and chinchilla stuff.
We are on a low income and because we are on a low income we can not afford to by junk foods, ready meals, takeaways etc.
Food how it should be is cheaper.

huge huge huge respect :T

tinktinktinkerbell

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

For goodness sake my partner and I eat a very good diet and it is cheap too. As I have already said we spend about £100/month and that includes cleaning products, toiletry products and chinchilla stuff.
We are on a low income and because we are on a low income we can not afford to by junk foods, ready meals, takeaways etc.
Food how it should be is cheaper.

you are never going to get me to agree with you D&G so dont bother wasting your time


weve done it both ways and i know which is cheaper

gs1967

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

yep, i came up with my own diet to loose weight after doing research what was evolutionary correct for us (and boy does it work, check the sig ) I hadn't seen the paleo or blue book diets but they are very similar to what i researched, and they do work, and you are never hungry which is amazing, but its not cheap grains are such a cheap bulking agent

Oh I know it works, Robb Wolf is my god . My husband has lost 50 lbs in three months but it is the best feeling ditching the grains.

Animals are fed grains because it's cheap and fattens them quickly, slaughtered early because they'd die of ill health anyway, and our government tell us to eat grains to be healthy...what a joke.

ooops...stepping off my box now...:o

Doom_and_Gloom

tinktinktinkerbell wrote: »

you are never going to get me to agree with you D&G so dont bother wasting your time


weve done it both ways and i know which is cheaper

I may never get you to agree but it is true. How else would my partner and I as well as many other people out there be able to eat on a budget like we do and do it healthy? I know for a fact my partner and I could lower our shopping but we like the odd treat like dairy free icecream, diet cola/cola etc.
I have to say we have just eaten junk before for a week (really bad time for both of us) and if we had done it for a month it would have cost us around £200! Strange that it costs you about that for food a month for you and your OH - I can't imagine why :rotfl:.

tinktinktinkerbell

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

I may never get you to agree but it is true. How else would my partner and I as well as many other people out there be able to eat on a budget like we do and do it healthy? I know for a fact my partner and I could lower our shopping but we like the odd treat like dairy free icecream, diet cola/cola etc.
I have to say we have just eaten junk before for a week (really bad time for both of us) and if we had done it for a month it would have cost us around £200! Strange that it costs you about that for food a month for you and your OH - I can't imagine why :rotfl:.

it costs us no where near £200 a month, £160 a month max it costs us

compared to £90-100 a week when we ate fresh, home cooked all the time

Eric_Pisch

gs1967 wrote: »

Oh I know it works, Robb Wolf is my god . My husband has lost 50 lbs in three months but it is the best feeling ditching the grains.

Animals are fed grains because it's cheap and fattens them quickly, slaughtered early because they'd die of ill health anyway, and our government tell us to eat grains to be healthy...what a joke.

ooops...stepping off my box now...:o

wow txs for that hes new to me

I have recently read a little on the primal blueprint diet, his lift heavy ideology is superb

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/


Tom Naughton is my current evangelist, this is worth watching all the parts of

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exi7O1li_wA

tinktinktinkerbell

Vaila wrote: »

I do have to disagree. My mum spends under £50 a fortnight for 3 adults. This covers seasonal veg and fruit bought from lidl/aldi and market fresh meat from the supermarket (around 2 chickens and german meats),maybe some smoked fish, dairy ie a block of cheese, 4 pints of milk, eggs, dried pasta and pulses , tinned pulses, tuna and fruit and maybe a loaf of bread.
Maybe a monthly shop would include cereal, flours, baking things etc

You need to give up the branded "treats "and junk and start cooking!
£100 a week for 2 adults means you should rewally use mse for its intended purpose....money saving!

we dont spend that, we used to when we did eat fresh and the only branded thing we were getting was branded loo roll :rotfl:

gs1967

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

wow txs for that hes new to me

I have recently read a little on the primal blueprint diet, his lift heavy ideology is superb

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/


Tom Naughton is my current evangelist, this is worth watching all the parts of

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exi7O1li_wA

Got both of those I have the full version of the Fathead movie... you could check out Gary Taubes too..

http://www.garytaubes.com/blog/

I'm spreadin' the word!

Doom_and_Gloom

tinktinktinkerbell wrote: »

it costs us no where near £200 a month, £160 a month max it costs us

compared to £90-100 a week when we ate fresh, home cooked all the time

You know have you thought about doing the live below the line challenge? http://www.livebelowtheline.org.uk/how-to-participate/
I've been thinking about doing this but for a whole week. Might help you realise that you can eat well for cheap - although this low it isn't overly healthy but would be better than a diet full of junk.