I promised awhile ago (I think it was my first post over 6 months ago!) that I would post on how I manage to feed a family of 3 on $50 or so a week. Well, with times as they are, this week I have set myself a challenge....
THE CHALLENGE: To feed our household of 4 adults and 3 children for $80 for 7 days.
THE HOUSEHOLD:
The Money-Saving Mum - Me
The Handsome Husband
The Ticklish Toddler (comes with mouth full of mandarin...)
Our boarders:
The enthusiastic eight year old
The spunky six year old
Their Mum - the camera-shy sweet-heart
Our friend - the also camera-shy chicky-babe
Ok - time to head off to buy the groceries!
Ticklish Toddler and I in the car at Spud Shed - our supermarket of choice for this challenge due to their warehouse style premises and low prices due to absence of fancy fitting etc...
Find them here....
Time to get a trolley...
The reason I love this place is their insane cheap prices and no-frills policy. I can usually get all my groceries here including toilet paper (although only one brand available), meat, fruit and vege, milk products, frozen food, canned food, bread.... About the only thing I need to go to the 'real' supermarkets for are dish washing liquid, soap, shampoo etc and cat food!
5KG bag of carrots = $1.50
2KG bag of onions = $0.99
2L milk = $1.69 - granted I usually pay much more for it here - $1.79! Gee it's hard.... LOL
Great special this week - Pasta of many kinds = $0.69
Ticklish Toddler with our load - plus a bike and car toy - gotta have the car toy!
So here are our purchases!
TOTAL: $66.45 !!
YES!!!!
So I have $13.55 left in the kitty for extra milk and bread as we need it this week.
Woohooo!
Here are some of the standout buys:
- Milk 2L - $1.69
- Pasta - macaroni and linguine - $0.69 each for 500g
- Cabbage - $0.99 each
- Tomato Puree 700g - $1.49
- Mince meat - $6.99kg
- Carrots 5kg bag - $1.50
- Bread - white, toast, wholegrain, multi-grain - $0.99/loaf
I will be posting one post per day telling you all how we are coping and giving you a 'recipe of the day'.
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