Clueless at budgeting for food, help please?

Linda32

Seakay wrote: »

Don't bother blanching! Put it straight in the freezer, honestly it will be fine

I second that We are lucky enough to have an allotment, trust me it isn't necessary to blanch anything.

missty25

pinkpig08 wrote: »

We've just had a big cut in our budget too and my husband is now paid monthly instead of weekly so a lot of adjusting!

It's trial and error and takes quite a bit of organisation and you need to stick to it. That's quite difficult here with a husband who must have Heinz beans and proper Weetabix! I just buy the own brand and put it in the weetabix box though........

I'm lucky that nobody minds what brand we buy in.

Someone asked what milk baby is getting and it's Aptamil, baby suffers from reflux and this is the only milk that agrees with hi. And I wouldn't want to upset the apple cart by swapping to another brand when he's settled with this.

Went to mr T this morning and spent £53.96 which included babies milk. Although it would have been reduced by £10.60 which were impulse buys of things that we're not really essential tbh. I think I'm going to need to give myself a talking to about impulse buying and must stick to only what's on the shopping list from now. Lesson learned I suppose.

pinkpig08

That's why I find online shopping more useful. I'm not tempted by the things on aisle-ends or in the offer baskets!

mummygems

Formula until 12 months is the norm now and only cows milk for cereal/cooking etc not actual drinking it until 12 months (follow on milk is from 12 months plus usually and that I find is a con!).

My little boy had really bad reflux and I really wouldnt change his milk from what he is on now - I know its the more expensive of the formula brands but I found Aptamil the best one too. Even if it means you have to make more snacks than you buy to cover that extra £2 odd for his formula its better than changing him and having more issues.

Butterfly_Brain

daisiegg wrote: »

You realise it's not veggie if you add bacon, chorizo or pepperoni to it :rotfl:

I know but some people, especially of the male persuasion can be fussy about not having meat every day, so it is just a way of tarting a cheap meal up with some cheap bits of meat, you do not have to use a lot, sliced pepperoni is 79p small chorizo 99p and bacon pieces are £1.10 in Sainsbury ( a lot better qualitythan Tesco or Asda) even cheaper if you can get to a butcher who does cheap bacon offcuts.

kat360

Aptamil and cow and gate are made by the same company! It might be worth looking into what ingredients are used in them as cow and gate is slightly cheaper than aptamil. hthx

http://www.pregnancyforum.co.uk/baby-toddler/332465-aptamil-cow-gate.html

wuvvies

HappyMJ wrote: »

My personal experience....They don't....if they don't like the food they will not eat it no matter how hungry they are. They'll scream all night asking for food so I'll go and feed her the supermarket brand only for the nose to go up again and this can go on for several days with no food actually being eaten and mostly being binned. I can't sleep with a cat meowing at the top of it's lungs so I feed her what she likes.

i totally agree, its a pain in the neck having a fussy cat. what im doing at the moment is giving my cat iams and then i dont waste any. ive been buying the tesco finest cat food and its as if she can see its own brand. i bought some sheba on special offer and she likes that but anything else she likes it one minute and not the next. my cat will NEVER eat it if shes hungry she just meows and glues herself to your legs as you walk. i sounds like im being cruel but her fussiness is out of control so i stick to the good quality dried and eventually she does eat it but if its down all day it doesnt matter

moments_of_sanity

wuvvies wrote: »

i totally agree, its a pain in the neck having a fussy cat. what im doing at the moment is giving my cat iams and then i dont waste any. ive been buying the tesco finest cat food and its as if she can see its own brand. i bought some sheba on special offer and she likes that but anything else she likes it one minute and not the next. my cat will NEVER eat it if shes hungry she just meows and glues herself to your legs as you walk. i sounds like im being cruel but her fussiness is out of control so i stick to the good quality dried and eventually she does eat it but if its down all day it doesnt matter

Apologies as I haven't read the whole thread but have you tried Aldi cat food, the tins of meat in jelly? That is all my cats will eat, I have tried them on Felix, Sheba, kitty Kat, Whiskas........and they won't eat any of it even if I refuse to feed that anything else for days. Mine won't even eat dry food! :mad:

loveka

For the cat Butchers Choice cat food is good quality and cheap- £2.85 for 6 tins. My 2 had always had Felix when we hit hard times last year, and they too refused the basics stuff. I was recommended Butchers Choice on the pet forum on here, and they wolfed it down! I started to buy Iams biscuits when on offer and so they had a bit of variety. It more than halved what I had been spending.

Strangely, having eaten it for a year, the day my partner got a job was the same day they first refused to eat it! I think they knew we could afford Felix again!

dragonette

For the cat (lots of posts for the pets lol), cats can safely go for 2.5 days without eating but after that you have to make sure they eat *something* though it doesn't need to be much. Its to do with how their digestive system is set up, most will accept the new food long before that point though