Grocery budgets

[chrisp]

SS,

Iain is hyperbolising for the sake of humour. Yer still got lots to learn young fellow...

Chris

[ss_11000]

SS,

Iain is hyperbolising for the sake of humour. oh Yer still got lots to learn young fellow...yep:eek:

Chris

[Dion N]

Andy, I think your budget is pretty good.

We budget $400 a month for 2 adults and one infant (but she's still mostly on breast milk)

At our last house we use to go to a local butcher who advertised under the slogan "Convenience shopping will cost you money." If you compare the price of meat at Woolies/Coles etc to a local butcher, you can save a considerable amount just on meat. Most of these butchers will also have regular specials on bulk (ie 2kg or more) lots. Even cheaper still is buying a whole topside (if you have the freezer space)

The same principle usually holds true for fruit and vege shopping as well. Generally, we only buy sugar, butter, flour, cleaning products etc from Woolies and get our fruit, veg and meat elsewhere.

Convenience also costs when you buy prepackaged foods as opposed to preparing it yourself.