Comments on: Grocery Budget Challenge: £50 a week

By: Grocery Budget Challenge:Result | Move to Portugal

Grocery Budget Challenge:Result | Move to Portugal — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:54:18 +0000

[...] target was to spend £50 a week/£200 for the four weeks from 18th February – 17th March and I spent £246.54; not too bad and a reduction on last [...]

By: ~Carla~

~Carla~ — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:11:05 +0000

I need to figure out how much that is in our pretty Canadian money.. LOL!!! It looks like it’s $70/week… with 6 of us, there’s no way I could do it. How many of you are there normally? I spend $200 week but have been doing well and coming in under every week.. not this week though, I caved & ordered in Pizza. *sigh* lol!
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By: Mizé

Mizé — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:25:05 +0000

I´m doing the same challenge as you but in Euros. I´m definitely with you on this one…
My 50 E/weekly budget includes detergents and toiletries too.
Although we´re only two (three with the cat, lol), it has not been that easy. Fresh meat & specially fish can be expensive. To reduce costs, I make some egg, soup & pasta meals plus breakfast for dinner. I cook more than one meal at the time and try to use all leftovers.
You can check my progress at “Mizé Journey”, my current PF blog.
Hugs, Mizé.
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By: Laura@mtp

Laura@mtp — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:45:43 +0000

@dreamer…we rarely drink at home so I don’t really buy any. Used to but not anymore

@nicole @kat – {the photo is my actual shopping} the menu plan is just the evening meals, but budget includes all food- 4 in family, we eat out probably once a month, eat natural yogurt/fruit/cheese at lunchtime/snacks, rarely have desserts. For lunches we have sandwiches/bagels/pasta salads. For breakfasts cereal, porridge, wholemeal bread peanut butter/jam

@teresa @shoestring good luck – we can do this!
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By: Shoestring

Shoestring — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:57:17 +0000

I’m concentrating on our food budget this month too. Ours is £40 a week for the next four weeks but then there is only two of us and I budget extra if we are having people over. Luckily Husband doesn’t mind not having meat every day which helps as I know it really pushes the cost up. I find it works but only if I manage to make some extra portions to go in the freezer and stick to a meal plan. I’ll be really interested to see how you get on – I can always use some fresh ideas!
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