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By: Grocery Budget 4 Week Challenge – Progress | Move to Portugal

Grocery Budget 4 Week Challenge – Progress | Move to Portugal — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:44:33 +0000

[...] a previous post I set myself a challenge to spend only £200 on groceries over the four weeks, 18th January [...]

By: Alice at Simply The Nest

Alice at Simply The Nest — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:27:44 +0000

Hi! Yes, we plan to work there. My husband and I both have the kind of jobs where all you need is a laptop and internet connection – and of course we’ll be doing the whole B&B thing, which long-term will hopefully mean I can hang up my laptop for good (apart from blogging, of course!)
Alice at Simply The Nest´s last blog ..Light And Airy Notting Hill Home

By: Move to Portugal

Move to Portugal — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:44:12 +0000

@Alice thanks for dropping by. It’s great to ‘meet’ people doing a similar thing to us; France in 2014 sounds great.
Are your plans to work there? if you don’t mind me asking!

By: Move to Portugal

Move to Portugal — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:40:44 +0000

@shoestring here’s a link to starting a price book
http://www.stretcher.com/stories/05/05mar14c.cfm

By: Alice at Simply The Nest

Alice at Simply The Nest — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:08:05 +0000

My tip for reducing the grocery bill is to stop thinking to myself ‘hmm, what do I fancy for dinner tonight’ (and then going out and buying the ingredients I need to make it). Instead, I look in the fridge and think ‘hmm, what can I make with the ingredients I already have’. Also, I do all my food shopping online – fruit, veg, meat, fish and bread from Abel and Cole, and everything else from Ocado (they have a Tesco price-match on pretty much everything). So in addition to saving time, there is no temptation to buy those little extras! Oh, and I buy wine in bulk from Tesco whenever they have a half price deal

My husband and I live in Manchester with our two adorable Jack Russells, but we have a plan to move to the south of France by 2014 – so I’m very happy to have discovered this blog and will be checking in regularly to see how guys are getting on!
Alice at Simply The Nest´s last blog ..Recipe For Lobster Thermidor

By: Shoestring

Shoestring — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:59:43 +0000

Ooh, I do like a good grocery challenge – keep us posted! What’s the price book by the way?
Shoestring´s last blog ..Getting on with things

By: Move to Portugal

Move to Portugal — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:50:53 +0000

@Philip Brewer – i get far too tempted by ‘naughty’ food when i shop daily, when I have that under control, i’ll totally agree with you

By: Philip Brewer

Philip Brewer — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:29:29 +0000

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with shopping daily, if it’s daily shopping for fresh ingredients—and especially if it’s daily shopping that lets you pick and chose whatever looks best of what’s on sale.

Around here we can often get great deals that way.
Philip Brewer´s last blog ..Frugality, Simplicity, and Sustainability

By: Laura@movetoportugal

Laura@movetoportugal — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:01:48 +0000

wow; thank you for all the comments. Our budget is for 3/4 people, depending on how often my son comes home.

Thanks to those of you who are joining in, i’m much better at sticking to things when I have help; I’ll post weekly progress reports and we can all encourage each other to stick to our budget!

By: mo

mo — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:29:43 +0000

pps this budget includes household spending like cleaning stuff, toddler stuff and postage and things like that.