http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-23/money-saving-expert-feeds-family-for-40-dollars-a-week-heres-how/8727940
Apparently, they had gotten themselves into a lot of debt by living in Melbourne and just enjoying city life. But at some point they decided they needed to focus on getting their finances in better shape, so they moved to the country and she implemented this $40/week grocery plan.
It hit home with me and I decided to see if I could do the same. I'm only one, not four, but I've decided to still use her plan, but adapt it to my eating habits.
She advocates supermarket shopping once every 10 weeks and then having one and a bit cook days where most of the results go into the freezer.
Today I have to stay home to wait for an iiNet person to come and set up a new internet connection, so after a week of preparation, last night I picked up a massive grocery order from Coles (I think the poor click'n'collect guy was a bit freaked out by the volume of stuff) and am having my cook day today.
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| Grocery Pickup |
It's just taken about 2 hours to sort out all the groceries and label all my containers and I'm now ready to begin the actual cooking. 8am...here we go!
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| Let's see if I can turn this... |
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| ...and this... |
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| into this! |
