Weezl and friends Phase 2 -giving it a whirl for Shirl! Testing meal plan for a month

artybear

Allegra wrote: »

I was in Asda this morning and they still had the white bread flour at 61p - that would account for £2.60 of the price difference. Plus the rice seems awfully expensive - last time I bought it it was 73p per kg - has it really gone up by that much ? Or is Kitty not having SP ?

ETA: do you want me to try for the missing items, as with a different postcode it might be a different result, if items are out of stock in Arty's area ?

Allegra is right I hadnt put the right rice on so the total is now

£88.23

sorry weezl:o

weezl74

arty:A do you think it's different by postcode?:)

I'm getting 10 bags of this one at 60p a bag:



not checking up on you, just was looking for anything cheap to make the bread out of! It doesn't come up when you use bread flour as a search term tho annoyingly, you have to type white flour (well in my postcode!:rotfl:)

hornetgirl

Maybe we've stereotyped Shirley a bit too much? I'm not anything like the Shirley we've been describing. I don't have a blob of a Bob who sits in front of several plasma TVs, I don't have teenage kids wanting every gadget and gizmo going and I don't have debt. What I do have is one last payment to make on the mortgage at the end of this month. We earn very average salaries but have got ourselves to this point by using resources like the Tightwad Gazette and MSE.

I would have been thrilled to bits if CFR had been around 10 years ago when my quest to get the mortgage paid really began. We aren't so tight we squeak, but we do like to spend carefully and get good value for our expenditure. And I'll bet there are a whole load of other people out there just like me. They may not need to keep their grocery spending to £100 a month, they just want to.
I do put bleach in my hair though.

artybear

weezl74 wrote: »

arty:A do you think it's different by postcode?:)

I'm getting 10 bags of this one at 60p a bag:



not checking up on you, just was looking for anything cheap to make the bread out of! It doesn't come up when you use bread flour as a search term tho annoyingly, you have to type white flour (well in my postcode!:rotfl:)

OK I so shouldnt have done this, yep it was there I was searching for bread flour sooooooo the total now is

£85.53

weezl74

artybear wrote: »

OK I so shouldnt have done this, yep it was there I was searching for bread flour sooooooo the total now is

£85.53

and we all breathe a sigh of relief as the loud clanging shut of 'asdagate' is heard from cardiff to the midlands and beyond

grandma247

I have sent a link for the site and a few questions to my youngest daughter. She is a now single mum of three young boys, not working, so I thought she might give a different viewpoint on the site. I will let you know what she says when she eventually replies.
I think it is good as it is. I had to do all the searching for info myself when we needed to live off a very tiny food budget so this site would have been a godsend in those days but it was pre-home computers anyway so books and magazines were the only option. Very time consuming.

weezl74

grandma247 wrote: »

I have sent a link for the site and a few questions to my youngest daughter. She is a now single mum of three young boys, not working, so I thought she might give a different viewpoint on the site. I will let you know what she says when she eventually replies.
I think it is good as it is. I had to do all the searching for info myself when we needed to live off a very tiny food budget so this site would have been a godsend in those days but it was pre-home computers anyway so books and magazines were the only option. Very time consuming.

hello grandma 247 good thoughts as ever.

I wondered if I could please have your initials as I'd love to use your quote about the swede cloddies?

weezl74

aww did I kill the thread?


come back everyone!

weezl74

arty, did you ever see gavin and stacey?

artybear

weezl74 wrote: »

arty, did you ever see gavin and stacey?

All of them-so very very funny!!!