Zebredy is one of them there lady types that grace our forum Steve data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Problem is that it aint cheap to eat healthy. those vegetables and fruits all add up data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Cheaper than ready meals though.
No offence Zebredy but you can still be my mate hehe ;-).
Yeah fruit and meat make up the lions share of our bill. We get through so much fruit, we have a load of mixed fruit for breakfast and then during the day.
Conversely im not to keen on a lot of veg so thats some money saved data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
I think the pensioner was the most distressing because his options for additional income were far more restrictive than the others.I found it a sad tale to listen to.
I haven't watched it but I do remember seeing one of Jamie's shows about eating non-battery bred chickens. A woman flatly refused to spend the little extra, even though she was 20 stone, so was her 7 or 8 year old son because she couldn't afford it.... much more important for her to smoke 20 a day data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
But the difference between eating a battery chicken and a free range isnt going to make any difference to her weight.To be honest with chicken I struggle to taste the difference. On other meats its more noticeable.I can taste the fear in the chicken. Makes it more tolerable.
Main things to help me out (with a husband who doesn't like much veg and only two of us in the flat) cooking in bulk, many meals at once so I can use more veg at once and have less wastage. Also buying frozen veg helps as obviously it last a heck of lot longer.
Didn't grow up eating a lot of Beef, Lamb or Pork because of my Dad not eating it, and can easily live off chicken most the time if needed, but even with limited experience eating finer cuts of meat I have to agree with the above, I find it harder to taste the difference between most chickens, then I do with other meats. Not always I must admit but once when I bought home a beef joint that was originally priced at around £16 and was reduced to just under £5, without even telling my husband how much it cost, he assumed it must have been expensive as it tasted much better then previous meats I had bought...
We tend to do one large monthly Waitrose shop and have it delivered (we get 15% discount so it is no more expensive than shopping in the other supermarkets now that Waitrose do a lot more deals), and then do smaller weekly shops.
At the moment we are probably spending around £350 to £400 per month for 2 adults and our 1 year old daughter, that includes nappies, formula, etc. Thankfully it is starting to get back to normal levels as she is drinking less formula and more cows milk as she gets older.To think, 7 years ago when we bought our first house and shopped in Co-Op each week, we were probably spending closer around £100 to £150 a month.
Our biggest problem, is that we pop into Waitrose on a whim whenever we are over at the In-Laws and can end up spending a fair bit on rubbish that we don't need, and also quite often get takeaways.
I have recently been watching extreme couponing on TV and the amount of shopping they can get for next to no money in the US by using discount coupons is ridiculous.
We have decided to cut down our takeaway consumption to once a month on payday as a treat, as much for the health benefits as for the monetary savings.
We have this issue with Waitrose - go in for a loaf of bread or a roll, and come out with £25 worth of delicious things that will be gone very shortly data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7