Pupsiecola Thu 22-Nov-18 19:45:35

To those questioning how much we spend on groceries ... we can afford it, although obviously, by the very fact that I've posted, it would be nice to save some of that money!



We don't really drink (DH likes red wine, I like white, so we probably have 2 of those tiny bottles per month each). We don't eat fancy meals. If I'm buying chicken breasts I'll buy organic - in Waitrose that's around £10 for a pack of 4. We get through a fair amount of organic milk and organic yoghurt. I can get through a box of 12 eggs in a week - again organic. We don't eat a lot of fruit, although I do buy berries all year round because, well, we all like them and they're healthy. I get through a lot of (non-organic) veg. A head of broccoli and a bag of carrots is gone in a couple of days. We don't eat a lot of red meat. I usually get the 3 x packs of Duchy beef mince for a tenner offer which is good value for the quality. I try to batch cook.



I don't love cooking and am not very adventurous. Most of our recipes are from either the BBC Good Food website or The Body Coach books. We're all fit and healthy and all work out. We all do weight training, and the teenage DSs have very healthy appetites!



The DCs and I all take packed lunches and I buy good quality meat for these, because it's important to us on many levels, and as I said we can afford it. DH works from home often. In all our packed lunches we have chopped up peppers, cucumber and grapes: a 3 pack of different coloured peppers/one cucumber/a pack of grapes lasts us 1.5 days (none of this is organic). Bagels - 2 packs a week. We have soft drinks (diet coke and squash).



The washing machine is on daily and whist I buy Waitrose own brand detergent, it's still expensive (I am really hoping my skin is okay with the Aldi one).



It just all adds up. And I do think that if you shop at Waitrose it does that very quickly!