Trying really hard to OS but the prices keep going up

trying-very-trying

Remember that Sainsburys are doing the offer on their 1% milk. The vouchers are for one free pint or 40p off a larger sized carton, and they are valid until the end of this month. No other purchase is necessary, you just need to be bold enough to keep going back in to a different cashier lol.

liz545

I've been taking advantage of the Sainsburys vouchers - I've had about 6 free pints so far, and I've got 5 vouchers left! It may only be a small amount of milk, but it really does help offset the rising costs!

whitesofmyeyes

My Driving lessons are going up from £200 for 10 to £205.

Only Started them two weeks ago (taking 10 lessons a month).

I can't cut back anymore ,I have cut Alcohol out of my shopping(used to pay £6.20 for one bottle of vodka a month)It was a little treat,I can't cut anywhere else.

Think if it get's any worse it will be a reduction in meat and we may have to live one lentils.

Bus fares have went up and it now costs £28 to send DD to school around £280 a year:eek:

It's getting extremely tough and DD is growing at an alarming rate at the moment and I keep having to buy her new clothes,but I find it harder to find the money for clothes.

elona

whitesofyoureyes

Have you tried places like Primark or Peacock.

Cheap and cheerful but my dds were all tall and grew out of stuff so fast I could hardly keep up.
Felt like smacking mothers of small (in height) children who said smugly "I just buy stuff a size up and it lasts for two years!!!!;)

Nitha

Mr T are currently doing bags of carrots for 50p which I suppose is cheap, although I guess I expected carrots to be cheap all the time.

I'm trying to give my DS a wide range of fruit and veg, but particularly fruit is getting so costly. In some cases it's cheaper to buy the top quality organic baby foods than making your own. Blueberries for example are so pricy that I've been buying Plum baby blueberry puree instead!

Uniscots97

dubgirl wrote: »

Hi, i have posted on this thread previously about a friend who has been struggling. She already buys value goods, but has repeatedly stated that even this is becoming difficult for her. Any suggestions on what she could do, as again yesterday she was talking to me about how some value items are getting beyond her reach!

Hi, can you post her SOA on the DFW board and we'll see where we can help out. The other useful thing might be to list exactly what she buys each week, how much it costs and who she's trying to feed. If you put that one on this board and we'll see where we can help her make savings. There might be a few things she's not thought of.

dubgirl

Hi re my friend, I have sat down with her and gone through her budget, she has already checked out best options for utilities, insurance etc, but will try to get her to do a SOA. she is already pretty on the ball about cutting back and money saving, but she seems to be finding it particularly difficult at the moment. She is already working 50+ hours week and so would find it hard re second job. Thanks for the suggestions.

overlykeensaver

Nitha wrote: »

M but particularly fruit is getting so costly. In some cases it's cheaper to buy the top quality organic baby foods than making your own. Blueberries for example are so pricy that I've been buying Plum baby blueberry puree instead!

If you don't mind buying non organic stuff, you could also try buying frozen fruit to puree for your baby (and no peeling either!). I started off peeling and coring apples etc but quickly moved on to less time consuming (and usually cheaper) frozen fruit.
And don't forget tinned fruit to puree too. When she was a baby my daughter devoured pureed tinned peaches and tinned pears.

fizzel81

Shopping is getting almost scary now, each week the bill go's up by a bit

was doing so well this month till my son turned the fridge freezer off, next morning down i come to semi defrosted food, never thought id be saying this but im now very thankfull for the heathy start vouchers ive started getting this month, with prices as high as they are for now ive managed to offset some of what i would have spent (but im also now kicking myself for being too proud to claim them last year)

i was planning to do a use up next month to keep costs low (2 birthdays, a 1st school uniform to buy and then another birthday slowly creaping up) but with rising food costs im not sure this will make me any better off in july time

Sweet_Pea_2

This is an interesting thread. I started a price book over Christmas, its a little index book, small enough to go in my handbag, and I had a big box of receipts going back to July lasy year, so I went through them all and listed the prices from July-December. Since then I have been doing it at the end of each month.
I can honestly say though, the prices of the food I buy does not seem to have gone up so much. My budget is £70 for 2 adults and two DD's per week. I do about three quarters of my weekly shop at Aldi and get the rest from Sainsburys. I buy very little branded stuff, (most of the branded stuff is OH's) I always shop with a list, I meal plan, and I try not to use too much meat, its all well padded and stretched. (Tbh, DD's and I could easily give up meat, but OH is a bit of a carnivore, its not a meal without fish or meat in his opinion.)
I think all the supermarkets have reduced fruit and veg offers, Aldi have "super 6" so I try and get those, for example the punnet of mushrooms that I get every week was only 59p today and stretches out my curries and stir frys a treat, its amazing how little meat needs to go into things!

My budget has been £70 for about a year, I used to find I had spare each week and used it to stock up and buy extras, now there is no spare, but I have not had to increase it (yet)

My colleagues at work have been discussing rising food prices daily for weeks, there is talk of second jobs in order to manage, but they shop at places like Waitrose and M&S, they "have" to have Andrex loo rolls etc, and look at me with pity when I say I shop at Aldi. I questioned them all recently and not one of them shop with a list or meal plan at all.