Budgeting for food is something I bang on about a lot. I am constantly amazed by how much people tell me they spend on their food shopping. I know a couple of people how profess to spend very little on food but this is really because they are away a lot and don’t really keep [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Budgeting’
‘Spend Less, Save More’ Part 2: Food shopping
Posted in Shoestring Meals, Uncategorized, tagged Budgeting, Food shopping on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Revving up for August
Posted in Getting organised, Goals, Saving?Spending, tagged Budgeting, saving on July 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s amazing how quickly things can unravel, isn’t it? The severe toothache and lack of sleep have rendered me fairly useless for the past few weeks; the house has slowly become a bomb site needing more than a surface clean/tidy-up, I haven’t been cooking so things have gone to waste, Husband has been in charge of the shopping [...]
Day 8: Seasons greetings
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Budgeting, seasonal, seasonal food on April 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My challenge for the day has been to try to learn a bit more about eating seasonal food. The theory is that seasonal produce doesn’t have to travel as far thus the food is fresher and, importantly for those of us on a budget, cheaper. You are also much more likely to be able to buy things grown locally if [...]
Meal planning on a shoestring
Posted in Shoestring Meals, tagged Budgeting on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I have made such a dramatic cut to the food shopping budget for husband and I, I am having to be really careful about making a plan. We used to spend around £50 a week and, truth be told, we’d throw half of it away again as neither of us could be bothered to cook. [...]
