This months food bill...

Well food shopping has certainly been rising so feeding our family of 6, household bits, toiletries and a cat (especially when we are on the last dregs in our food cupboard) needs planning to keep us on track...

1. 2 week rotating menu - check
2. Online monthly shop - This month we are shopping at Tesco. We can then collect points for a trip we are planning for the summer holidays.  Tesco may not work out the cheapest but collecting the points for tickets to a theme park will save us £100+ so for us, it is worth it. For all our months staple ingredients £207.00 spent.  As buying it all in one go we save on additional delivery trips.
3. Weekly milk deliveries £33.44 spent
4. Weekly lidls fresh fruit/salad £60.00 (3 weeks as fresh coming with main shop from Tesco £20 per week) Free parking and its just down the bottom of our road. We shop here as we go through a lot of fresh fruit etc and this is the cheapest and better tasting produce. bread flour is almost £1 cheaper here too.
5. Iceland shop, shopping for our frozen and some cupboard store produce here instead of Tesco has saved us £15.68 this month. £40.00 spent

This means total cost for a 4 week month shop is £340.00 which works out approx. £85 per week. The milk prices have gone up and nearly cost double compared to most of the supermarkets so it looks like I may have to start adding milk onto our weekly Lidls trip in order to reduce the bill.  This month we also spent max food shop delivery charge of 6.00 for a weekend delivery as we were running out of food and I didn't organise myself properly (another opportunity to reduce for next month).

We do eat well plenty of home cooked food and try to incorporate all the food groups, protein, dairy, carbs and plenty of veg/fruit.  We also have treat food/puddings, selection of cereals and sandwich fillings.  This is the menu based on the shop;

DATE	BREAKFAST	LUNCH	DINNER	PUDDING	SNACKS
SUNDAY	CEREAL	SANDWICH CHEESE FROMAGE FRAIS	ROAST MEAT VEG POTS	HOT PUD ICECREAM	FRUIT
MONDAY	CEREAL	SANDWICH CHEESE FROMAGE FRAIS FRUIT	LASAGNE AND VEG	TREAT BOX	FRUIT/MALT LOAF
TUESDAY	CEREAL	SANDWICH CHEESE FROMAGE FRAIS FRUIT	TURKEY CASSEROL	HM CAKE	FRUIT/MALT LOAF
WEDNESDAY	CEREAL	SANDWICH CHEESE FROMAGE FRAIS FRUIT	SAUSAGE MASH BEANS	TEA CAKE/SNOWBALL	FRUIT/CRUMPETS
THURSDAY	CEREAL	SANDWICH CHEESE FROMAGE FRAIS FRUIT	HOTDOG PASTA	TEA CAKE/SNOWBALL	FRUIT/RICE CAKES
FRIDAY	CEREAL	SANDWICH CHEESE FROMAGE FRAIS FRUIT	FISH VEG NEW POTS	DIGESTIVE CHOC BAR	FRUIT/CRACKERS
SATURDAY	CEREAL	SANDWICH CHEESE FROMAGE FRAIS	PIZZA GB CORN SALAD	ICE CREAM & SAUCE	FRUIT

 

 

 

 

 

DATE	BREAKFAST	LUNCH	DINNER	PUDDING	SNACKS
SUNDAY	CEREAL	SANDWICH CHEESE FROMAGE FRAIS	ROAST MEAT VEG POTS	CREAM PUD	FRUIT
MONDAY	CEREAL	SANDWICH CHEESE FROMAGE FRAIS FRUIT	BBQ MINCE AND TORTILLA	TREAT BOX	FRUIT/MALT LOAF
TUESDAY	CEREAL	SANDWICH CHEESE FROMAGE FRAIS FRUIT	BEEF CASSEROL	HM CAKE	FRUIT/MALT LOAF
WEDNESDAY	CEREAL	SANDWICH CHEESE FROMAGE FRAIS FRUIT	LAMB CHOP, VEG AND POTS	WAGON WHEEL/CAKE BAR	FRUIT/PANCAKE
THURSDAY	CEREAL	SANDWICH CHEESE FROMAGE FRAIS FRUIT	CHEESE PASTA	WAGON WHEEL/CAKE BAR	FRUIT/RICE CAKE
FRIDAY	CEREAL	SANDWICH CHEESE FROMAGE FRAIS FRUIT	FISH PIE AND VEG	DIGESTIVE CHOC BAR	FRUIT/CRACKERS
SATURDAY	CEREAL	SANDWICH CHEESE FROMAGE FRAIS	INDIAN CURRY AND BITS	ICE CREAM	FRUIT