sammy_kaye's £100 a month food budgetting

emweaver

HI, just wondering if your still managing on £100 a month now that everythings gone up?

zarazara

any updates anyone?

sammy_kaye18

Hi guys

Keep missing my own threads posts - sorry.

We were doign ok on £100 up until a few weeks back when the prices shot up. At the minute we have added an extra £20 to the shopping so we are now on £120 a month (this now doesnt cover any meat now - bar ham for sandwiches) but i am shopping every 2 weeks now instead of once a month as i find it is better. The extra £20 that ive added tends to mostly cover whoopsies that are found and this seems to be where we are getting most of our meat from - i may buy the odd pack of 800g value mince and tescos frozen sausages if there is no meat available but most of this £20 is spent in the whoopsie section now. We seem to forever have pies/chicken portions/whole chickens/beef/mince/pork joints etc in there

I will make sure to post a revised shopping list at some point

mum2many

you really are an inspiration. you are living the way i want too with all home baking and good healthy food. £100 is out of the question for me as there are 6 of us, the eldest 2 kids eat loads so its like 4 adults and 2 kids.

I will cut down and am currently waiting to put a loaf in the oven before making twinks hobnobs, yumy yummy.

emweaver

whats the whoopsies section?

Pink.

emweaver wrote: »

whats the whoopsies section?

Hi emweaver,

In asda when they reduce items on their sell by date they are labelled with yellow stickers which are marked with the word 'whoops!'. I think most supermarkets have sections where they keep items they reduce each day.

Pink

lilmoi1985lm

i still find this post so much of an inspiration and always come back to it! still cant get my shopping down to this level though i think we are getting worse not better!

Spirit_2

Have read this for the first time tonight - amazing. Well done. What fantastic household management.:T

I am embarassed by my waste and need to get my act together.

Spirit

minimiser

Well done for sticking to your budget. I try to keep to £50 per week for 3 but I must admit there is a bottle of wine (or 2) for a little treat for the grown ups this probably ups the bill. Also we seem to get through loads of milk. Diluting it sounds like a great wheeze- can you tell?

SunnyGirl

minimiser wrote: »

Well done for sticking to your budget. I try to keep to £50 per week for 3 but I must admit there is a bottle of wine (or 2) for a little treat for the grown ups this probably ups the bill. Also we seem to get through loads of milk. Diluting it sounds like a great wheeze- can you tell?

I don't find it too noticable when I dilute blue top (full fat) milk as we usually have semi skimmed anyway, but I notice a lot if it's semi skimmed that I've diluted if you see what I mean? I have done it in the past though when needs must etc Bread & milk are the thing that I seem to shop almost every day for :eek: