sammy_kaye's £100 a month food budgetting

LilacPixie

emweaver wrote: »

5kg potatoes £2
carrots £1
banana £1.50
strawberries £2
grapes £2
mushrooms 80p

£9.30 week

t hats a week for 3 with just dd eating the fruit sometimes well have strawberries adding another £2. Spend £1.50 week on frozen veg mix if we bought fresh veg would be more

so £15 is possible. £10 for 4 seems cheap is it reduced fruit and veg?

nope.. I use a fruit market stall or failing that Mr S basics range topped up with the .aldi/lidl offers. 60p for a kg carrots type thing. I was under £7 on friday but plan on getting pears and plums from the aldi super 6 on Monday

We have an allotment but the snow in November put paid to the winter veg..

OrkneyStar

weezl74 wrote: »

Hi there,

I thought I'd put all of sammy's original food list into tesco.com to see whether the much feared food price inflation has made lots of difference since sammy first posted. Good news all:j, you can still get all the food items for £98 :money::money: (and I expect that sammy got some of those things cos they were on offer then, and so I think you could still bring the whole thing in for £100, if you needed to...:))

Hope my little experiment helps someone somewhere, other than me!

Weezl x

Correction, you can still get it if you live on the more populated and well served areas of the British mainland, and have access to a supermarket which stocks all the products in the value/saver/basics ranges. If you live on an island or somewhere rural you often have to pay more for these things (unless you can get them reduced) as our smaller stores do not always stock the value option, and we have to go for stores own, or even brand sometimes! Not being negative but this is a valid comment for many people!

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JackieO wrote: »

whilst decorating this week I found an old shopping lined book from 1970 in which I listed some of my shopping

sugar 1s.8d for 2lb (8p)
spring onions 1/- a bunch (5p)
Leg of Lamb 17/6d (86p) This was my weekly joint and woulld last from Sunday until at least wed/thursday
cucumber 2/- (10p)
1.lb butter 2/3d(11p)
5lb potatoes 2/6 (13p)
It sounds really cheap but my housekeeping for my OH, myself and two small children was £8.00 per week '

that is when I bought a cheap little paperback called `thrifty fifty` by Rose Elliot. Meals for 4 for 50p. That little book was a real lifesaver and I mean it. I lost it a few years ago and searched for another one and I found one, marked and faded like mine but who cares as it was obviously loved like mine. My housekeeping was about the same as yours jackieo.

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iris wrote: »

A treat in those days was a fresh cream cake:rotfl:

not just in those days but for many many years afterwards. A saturday treat once a month if there was cash left in the envelopes

I think we are sliding back to similar times. I feel it in my bones and only last week I started to make hm wine again, only starting from scratch with no equipment as I gave it all away in the early 90s. I am not paying silly prices for nice wine when my own was gorgeous

Bitsy_Beans

emweaver wrote: »

Ive thought since I first read either the list is wrong or must be a real boring diet and be hungry a lot. A child should have alone all the fruit in the budget A WEEK

To be fair to Sammy she does explain in the thread WHY they eat the same things, she has phobia about different/new/certain foods so eat the same.
I find that HM stuff, especially like soups and bread and snacks keep me fuller for longer so I don't think it's fair to assume they're all starving hungry.
As for the fruit - hmmmm trying to get my eldest to eat ANY fruit is a battle, he's like me just doesn't like it, maybe at the time her DS was the same. Perhaps they stick to the 5 a day from veg etc.

I do think we need to try and not judge too much since we don't know the ins and outs of every ones day to day life. Sammy also discussed that she could often buy reduced fruit and other goods from her job at the local Co-Op so this would also supplement her fruit bought from Tesoc's or whatever.

I find this a rather enlightening post compared to a poster on another board who claimed to only spend £3 a week on food for them (yes you read it right £3) but it turns out a "meal" for them consisted of a plain jacket spud and some peas :eek::eek::eek: At least this is what i'd class "proper" food

natlie

"Also Ben seems to liek putting ketchup in with pasta and then putting grated cheese on top - my mil introduced him to it and he seems to enjoy it)"



LOL We used to call this Pasta a la King

CrazyNerd

don't forget baked beans count as one a day. She also has sultanas and tinned toms and orange juice too. You need to look at the whole list really.

hilstep2000

I've got £2 left from last week which gives me £27 this week! Hw can I splurge?!

hilstep2000

Kittie Just found that book on Abe books for £2.00! Thanks!

CrazyNerd

chocolate!:D