How little can you spend and still eat?

Last week our weekly supermarket shop (only tins and packets....veg comes from the market and meat from the butchers) cost a whopping £32, give or take a few pence. To be fair, there were still a couple of chicken fillets, about half a pound of mince and some Quorn pieces in the freezer. Usually our shopping costs anything from £60 t0 over £80, so for 2 grown-ups a toddler and a bottomless pit of a nearly-five-year-old, I don't think that was at all bad!

Hubby has been finding it challenging finding instant food to eat, so I have made a batch of buns just about every day so people can dig in without thinking.

Mostly I buy the value type of supermarket packets and to be honest I don't think anyone has noticed, or at least they haven't said anything :o) . I was just starting to be horrified at how much our food actully costs, so by way of an experiment I am going to try to do a minimalist shop every week from now on.

We use cloth nappies, I use cloth sanitary towels, and Hubby only shaves about twice a week, so really the only expensive things should be laundry stuff. That's the theory anyway! LOL!

So will anyone join me on my quest for tiny food bills? Would you like to know exactly what we have been eating? One surprising and welcome upside to this has been the lack of rubbish created. This week we struggled to fill one black bin bag. I recycle paper, cans, bottles, tetrapaks, cardboard and maniacally compost all sorts of stuff.

Can I get it down to £30?

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Grr!

Why is it when you go into Morrison's to buy a couple of cheap loo rolls for camping you can only buy the Bettabuy ones in packs of 12?

Tetrapak recycling and Ripon Kerbside Collection

Just found a recycling bank for "beverage cartons" in the car park on St Marygate in Ripon. The one behind Sainsbury's. It's about half way down the car park. Hurrah! Now I can get rid of all those milk and juice cartons I have been hoarding for ever. Luckily Hubby hasn't chucked them all in the bin. To find your local tetrapak recycling facility please visit http://www.tetrapakrecycling.co.uk/locator.asp

It has just been announced that Harrogate Borough Council are scrapping their plans for kerbside collections of cardboard and plastic bottles. It took long enough for them to get round to collecting glass, cans and paper. And would it be so difficult to let us put compostable food scraps into our garden waste wheelies?

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