Help cutting the budget

Sarahsaver

jazzyjustlaw wrote:

No pizza - please tell me what you snack on. If i cook from scratch I am more full but I am always hungry - what can I do to stop it?

I do try hard our montly food bill is about £140.00 for two of us but I love chocolate, crisps and nuts.

We do have pizza just homemade. I snack on fruit, peanuts (in their shells or plain ones from the Indian shop - not salted) dried fruit like dates are one of my faves. I like chocolate, don't get me wrong, I used to eat crisps but now I have absolutely no desire to eat them.
HM bread is more filling, a slice of that with some hm peanut butter tides me over if I'm snacky. But the urge to 'snack' as such is largely not there since I stopped buying all the cr*p. If you can just go into the cupboard and know there is a month's supply of chocolate/crisps/sweets then you will eat them, fatty sugary food is addictive as it causes chemical changes in the brain which you then get addicted to. HM crisps are lovely, and saves pumping your body full of the approx 14 ingredients there are in a bag of walker's salt and vinegar!!!
I have friends who moan their kids eat junk, yet they have a 'goodie drawer' in the kitchen at knee level :rolleyes:
Look at the cost of a load of junk food and then think what fruit/veg/meat/fish you could buy instead. Or buy better quality or less salty snacks, or make them yourself!