Sneaky tips to fox anti-OS husband

tiger_eyes

SCFC1961 wrote: »

Quote She hardly uses supper markets where she lives off green lanes near manor house the a lots of Turkish supermarkets and independant shops so she buys as & what she needs on a daily basis I wish there were more places like that where I live

Miss living there myself too

I used to live there too!

trailingspouse

I got my OH 'onside' by saying (several times, as required) that our money was 'hard-earned' and I wasn't prepared to waste it.

He was brought up with no money - partly because he mother was rubbish at budgeting/cooking and such like. So although he was on good money when we got together he didn't really see that money could be saved by being organised and thinking ahead.

He's now as keen as anyone to make savings (he's just re-negotiated his mobile contract, saving us £45 per month - I think he's told me this three times now...)

moments_of_sanity

My 'lot' are getting better about throwing things out before looking and sniffing. The thing I found works the best is to ask them how many hours they had to work to earn the money to pay for it, for example, eldest DD went out for a meal with her boyfriend (they do this at least twice a week!) :eek: and she said it had cost her just shy of £30, she is 18 and is going off to uni in September but has a bar job at the moments which pays £6.84ph, so I asked her how many hours she needed to work for the £30 and if she felt the meal was worth 4.5 hours of her time.....you should have seen the look on her face, she was horrified that it took so many hours to pay for the meal!

I also do the same with DH, I can't work at the moment due to health issues so he is the only one working out of us two so I ask him if what he throws out is worth 30, 40, 50 mins of his time etc. it has certainly focused his mind as he know looks at things a lot differently.

I know it doesn't seem worth doing for small items but when those small items mount up, they could easily be throwing a couple of hours worth of work time away!

ETA: last night DH asked if I could make a cauliflower cheese for him today as the cauliflower is looking a bit sad! I had planned to do that with it today but let him think the idea was all his! Lol

Molillie

Lots of good ideas mentioned, one I saw on Youtube, At Home with Nikki, showed her preparing all her fruit and veg as soon as she got the groceries home. She layered up salads in glass jars, and put them in a row in the fridge, so could just take one out as needed, and put prepared fruit into single serving containers. She also had jars with onions ready cut up for the following day. The glass jars are meant to work better than plastic. I'm going to try it with some of my large jars. For hard cheese, I have been cutting into portions, and freezing the rest, as I clear it up by eating it all otherwise. As so many people have mentioned, meal-planning, and removing things from the original packaging seems to be the way to go. Failing that, stopping off on the way home from work for perishables, but sticking to a budget, or that can get very expensive.

sedment

My husband used to be a nightmare in the kitchen, he never used potatoes if they started to sprout a bit, I was taught just to cut the sprouty bits off! He also used to boil them whole! Gawd knows how long they were boiling away on the hob for. Im guilty of buying value/smart price tomato sauce and decanting it into a Heinz bottle, have been doing it for years and he hasnt twigged, do it with the handwash as well. He is getting better, but he still buys premium when he gets sent to the shop for bits, then complains as to how much it costs.I dont, I buy a lot of value stuff and it amazes him sometimes that I can do a two week shop for two big and two little people for around £60, with milk and yogurt top ups through the second week!!!

Frogletina

savingqueen wrote: »

I was talking with a friend the other day about food shopping. She said something like "you know when you throw out what's left in the salad drawer before you go shopping...."

moments_of_sanity wrote: »

ETA: last night DH asked if I could make a cauliflower cheese for him today as the cauliflower is looking a bit sad! I had planned to do that with it today but let him think the idea was all his! Lol

I find it easy to use up what's left.

I had 3 potatoes, some carrots and cauli yesterday. Had most with a cheese sauce, but mixed leftover sauce with the veg and layered the mash on top which I will have today. But had I more I would have made cauliflower cheese, with added carrots and frozen it. Another time I might have made a curry to freeze. It's easy to see what won't be eaten in time.

As well as this I have enough bits of salad for one meal, including 3 carrots which I will grate with the last of the cheese (love it like that), the last portion of lettuce, cucumber and coleslaw and the final egg.

gayle1

i started ordering from approved foods without hubby knowing now have boxes of soup hidden under the boys bed as long as i watch my dates ill be fine dated mar 2015

mandragora_2

Can I borrow him now and then? My OH is at home (retired) while I work full time, and is, in theory, responsible for 'all the cleaning and tidyiong because you're at work all day'. Which is great, but the notion of throwing anything at all in the fridge out is very alien to him. I've known gravy from the Sunday roast still to be sitting in a jug in the fridge two weeks later.... Unless I do it, things have to sit in the fridge till they either grow their own legs and walk to the bin, or moulder away to nothing.