My SOA - gone back to my bad ways

glitter_fairy

Domino9 wrote: »

Hi,

Some comments above, but as other posters have said it seems to be grocery and food that's your big monthly expenses - both in the supermarket, and lunch money.

HTH

D9

Thanks

The car insurance is the cheapest we could get.

Gas and electric only have 2 more months

we have another 18 months left on the phone contracts

Lunch is only the children, and most of that money is their activities

the food is the big one, but have had some really good ideas so will tackle that one straight away x

tallyhoh

The child benefit doesnt look correct, shouldnt it be £80ish?

downsizer3

I can only add to the 'cutting the groceries' answers!
I manage it by having a big freezer - batch cooking - take it out in the morning and its defrosted by dinner time. Kids meals work great that way too - a small investment in tupperware and freezer bags - its a whole weekend of batch cooking - then its easier to deal with after that.
Haven't got a slow cooker - as its just me and one child - but great for families.
Late night supermarket shopping picks up the marked-down items too. Freeze those!

glitter_fairy

So as I am off work due to torn ligaments I had my shopping delivered this morning, have done a meal plan for the week. I only spent £70 that included washing power cleaning this cat food and litter.

The CB is wrong too i put the weekly not monthly down