Has anyone requented the mse forums board particuarly the old styele one.
This thread has been running or ages
forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=4084527&page=1
its feed one person for £7 a week.
Theres also feed family for £25 or £40.
every so often the person who started the thread tots up up to date prices and pretty much ever supermarket basic range as had huge hikes.
For me my nearest is sainsburys and they by far worst talking about sudden 10-20p increases.
The girl called jack blog is very good as she says she shops saisnbursy as nearest so cheapest for her to get to and feeds herself and small boy for £10 a week so £40 a month including household!
Some of her recipes are good shes very creative and a good cook.
shes missed meals.
shes always commenting about rise in basics.
Over the last few years ood budget has got tighter as liteally its our only variable.
If car goes wrong its the food budget that suffers,
I used to be really good with food budget im a good cook but last year or so struggling to keep costs down only reason we dod so well is
i shop 4-5 different supermarkets per month which takes time.
Hubby drives I dont the retail park near me is 30min walk has lidls and large saisburys tend to go weekends as thats when lids deals are if hubbys of we take car and stock up.
saisburys drives me mad but we shop the deals only, stuff we cant get in lidls like value hersbs 17p value pepper 17p value stuffing.
we done morrisiosn in past thats hour walk, expensive bus ride.
tesco metro 45mins walk pricey
iceland 45min walk as opposte tesco metro up nearby high street.
my local high street 20min walmk just has large co-op pricey and saisnburys local also pricey.
nearest 4 corner shops all 15min walk are mace, booker premier, spar and shell garage.
most expensive booker has some cheap deals and value washing powder for a quid.
The spar every evening has best reductions get loads of bread there and other random not as much as used to but still odd bits.
but by best and far is co-op at tea time 6sih where theres s scrum for reduced and proper amounts off.
of course when kids are tired last thik they want to do is walk 30mins to supermarket ande then 30mins home as cant afford the bus or the bus drivers seem to hate kids and only let2 bugies on at a time or they make you fold buggies after you have several bags tied to handles even in rain , snow we go 3-4times aweek but its luck of draw sometimes theres loads sometimes theres nothing and feels fultile.
1st 2weeks arond payday we fine its week before pay day that things get very boring.
in past got good at every 2-3months doing decent storecupboard shop for essentials but noticed last 6montsh cupboards havent been as well stocked neither has freezer:(
we only go lidls/aldis for nappies, saisburys basic ones are ok.
do use the value wipes.
we eat less meat
fruit bowl frequently empty as my kids never stop eating.
we take adavantage of free fruits cherries at moment then it be plums and blackberries.
we have small veg patch.
we dont very often go aldis although ones opened much nearer than us but hours walk and dont find it overly cheap but best for booze, fruit and veg.
out problem is with 3 kids 2 under 4 milk even buying £1 for 4pints some days we get through 6-8pints a day so thats £14 a week on milk alone.
we get value toiliet roll.
i do what jack does and get spray bottle diluted with bleach.
I try hard to keep it £50 a week but family of 5 its hard. that includes 2packed lunches as hubby takes lunch as does eldest as school diners are £40 a month.
we do have large chest freezer but its not been full in a while mostly bread and frozen veg in there sometimes I batch cook and reeze little homemade ready meals in tubs.
i stretch a chicken to 2-3,meals as boil the carcass loads meat come off.
im whizz at soups and realised how easy they are to make.
can make my own bread and homemade pizza but its the bread flour thats pricey as is cheese we only buy on offer cheese, butter, crips or biscuits if not on offer we opt for value.
every 2-3months we drive farmfoods which is cheaper and better than iceland.
least twice a week my kids have something with chips.
for some reason they gone off pasta eldest likes lasagne but works out pricey.
eggs are amazig things.
we only buy non value meat and free range eggs/poultry so not comprimised on that.
we add red lentils to mince make it stretch further.
have had super noodles or packet pasta before.
made cauli cheese with frozen cauli. cook mostly frozen veg in micro.,
we try keep oil, garlic and onions always in stock.
if im in a £1 shop or cheapy shop i buy odd things there.
I love carboots and charity shop finds got some free saucepans last week, infact lots free stuff on local group also given lots away myself.
oddest meal red lentil and paxo burgers.
jacks carrot, bean and cumin burgers are lush red value beans 26p, value carrots its the cumin that costs.
i do try bake more its just even to make 12 cupcakes its 4oz butter and 4oz sugar.
I think the worst days have been when hubbys working weekends and its nice and we can smell bbqs but cat afford to do one.
on rainy days i do shop and get reduced burgers and rolls and keep in freezer for when it is sunny but at moment hubby needs clean bbq and needs charcoal.
our old oven landlords was rubbish grill dident work, door wouldent shut , collapsed hob we ended up replacing ourselves 2nd hand one of mate for 30 quid having double over, grill a door with window and ceramic hob.
we not an unemplyed family on benefits we only get child benefits.
hubby works fulltime
we run 1 car
i have 3kids 2not in school
no amily nearby
chilcares expensive
private rent.
we be better off when hubbys loan ends in couple years and hope move somewhere bigger and better and less than 1.2mile walk to school. Everything comes down to money at end of day.