What is the least amount of money you could feed a family of 5 on in a month?????

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Interested to know how cheaply you can feed a family of 5 (one is only 4 months and being Breast fed). WOuld hope to eat reasonable food.

We are a family of 3 and our weekly spend went up due to neccesities for the little one. Now I try to stick to a budget and resist temptations and found that it really useful to have a shopping list. There is a site called the resourceful cook that helps you plan your weekly shop which tells you how much your meals costs and them provides you with a shopping list for everything you need for each meal. Here's the link if anyone is interested.

resourcefulcook.com

We are a family of five (2 adults, 8, 5 and 3 year old DC) and I have got my spending down from around £700 a month to around £350 for groceries and toiletries. I use the Old Style Money Saving board on Money Saving Expert.Com to help me and I meal plan over the weekend and place an order for a food delivery on Monday to last till Sunday. That is to include breakfast, lunch and dinner. I use the slow cooker, batch cook, do my own bread etc.

I also use Approved Food a lot.

We must spend about £100 a week on 4 of us (me, DP, 4yo Tom and Erin who is 8 months on sunday). And we goto PIL on a sunday for dinner . Thats us shopping in Morrisons and Asda. Oh, and no packed lunches either. DP has no breakfast or lunch atm as he's wanting to loose weight .

Meant to add that we are going to try and bring it down a bit further from September.

You could try using the calculator on resourcefulcook.com to see how much money you could save from your grocery shopping. It showed that I could save hundreds of pounds annually and that is roughly a lovely week holiday for us!

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