DFW Grocery Challengers -

calleyw

Kelinik wrote:

For me, hubbie and 2 kids (and 13 rodents who need pasta and cereals for the homemade mix I make) we are spending around £300-£350 a month on average. This does include all household items, toilettres etc but we don't have ready meals (can't stand them), many treats or have food left over so I don't really know where the money goes! I think my first challenge will be to go through reciepts (they normally just go straight in the shredder) and see how they break down. I really didn't think we spent more than average until I joined here!!

Cor I have reciepts going back about a year. I know should shred them. But I will once they are are few months old honest. Got to get a new filing system in place. Never know when something might need to go back :rolleyes:

Don't forget we are all tight on here. Well I am so that is why my food bill is so small.

There will come a point when you can't get it down any more. But even if you can shave off £50-£100 a month. Better in your pocket then theres.


Yours


Calley

LittleL_4

I'm starting tomorrow.... I've got £25 in my spare purse all ready and waiting. This is the amount I plan to spend on 2 for the week.

I think the biggie for me is loo roll. For some reason my o/h uses about one roll a day! :eek: We argue non-stop about it but it does'nt get any better. Guys and their toileting habits.........yuch!

I'll be in touch and good luck to everyone :T
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Kelinik

Yeah but I joined because I need to learn to be tight too lol! If I could save £100 a month of the food bill not only could we get debt free a lot quicker we might even be able to go on a (cheap obviously!) holiday next year! *daydreams*

I'm determined to get our money situation under control now and with the help and advice from all you lovely people I know I can, just need to be strict with myself! :rolleyes:

Good luck to everyone doing the challenge!

calleyw

LittleL wrote:

I'm starting tomorrow.... I've got £25 in my spare purse all ready and waiting. This is the amount I plan to spend on 2 for the week.

I think the biggie for me is loo roll. For some reason my o/h uses about one roll a day! :eek: We argue non-stop about it but it does'nt get any better. Guys and their toileting habits.........yuch!

I'll be in touch and good luck to everyone :T
L
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Blinking heck a roll a day:eek: I don't think we use that a week and there are two of us in the house.

Stand on the roll to squish it. Means it will not come off the roll as quickly.

Or be really mean and only give him a few sheets each time he goes in :rotfl:

Yours


Calley

LittleL_4

Calley, you've no idea..... He's in the bathroom, no joke, for at least an hour in the morning! He thinks it's normal and healthy......

Think I'll buy some of that hard paper loo roll, I'm sure he'll cut down then, or maybe not... :mad:

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I'll tell him his limit is 3 a week, see if it works! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Kelinik

You need to get that Gillian-you-are-what-you-eat women round LittleL!! :eek:

LittleL_4

Well, what worries me is that he eats what I cook him :eek:

I think it's just a guy thing.......

Hey get this, we even have a magazine rack in the loo!!!!! Yes, he reads while he sits there..........................gawd he'd kill me if he knew I was telling you all this..... :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

It's not normal is it?

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Kelinik

Hmmn he couldn't be gluten intoleratant or something could he? My honey baby darlin' of a sister-in-law (quite fond of her incase you can't tell lol!) is a coeliac - or has coeliac diease to be pc - and a less than pleasant and settled tum is the first side effect if she has any wheat. Apparently you can be intolerant or sensitive to it without being allergic, just a thought.

LittleL_4

Mmmm, you have a point coming to think of it. His tummy makes the weirdest of noises when he does'nt eat... Quite often I mistake it for the washing machine :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Yep, think there's an old digestive issue goin on......... :think:

xx

ZTD

LittleL wrote:

I think the biggie for me is loo roll. For some reason my o/h uses about one roll a day! :eek: We argue non-stop about it but it does'nt get any better. Guys and their toileting habits.........yuch!

It's at this point that I get a vision of toilet paper going in mouth, and out the other end and a flossing action used...:eek:

How else do you use so much toilet roll?