I started of making a meal planner for week 1 and looking at what I already had in, to my surprise I found I had two homemade meat and potatoes pies in the freezer so that sorted out two days, the other 5 will be taken up with sausage casserole, pasta bolognese and a treat on Saturday of pizza and garlic bread. With meal planner in hand I set about making my shopping list but checking what ingredients I already had lurking at the back of my cupboards. I was amazed at how much I already had in things like tins of tomateos, stock cubes, herbs and spices, in fact with the herbs and spices I had 2-3 pots of some of them and much to my shame even found a pot of chinese five spice that had gone out of date April 2001 (which means it was even out of date when I moved house in 2006 and i still brought it with me) a friend sent me this link after me telling her this!
The shopping was split between Aldi and Morrisons as I know nappies and wipes are cheaper at morrisons and to my total shock and amazement I managed to do a full weeks shopping for the grand total of £36.17.
This was mainly achieved because of how much I already had in and the fact my step son is away for the week so one less mouth to feed. I am sure next weeks shopping will be more.
All in all I think I have done pretty well for day one and to top off the day I even got other half to agree to extend the challenge to 3 months so I could look at saving on quarterly things (like the water bill that's paid quarterly even though I am on meter and can effect it daily) I am still hoping I can get him to agree to extending to to a year but we shall see, hopefully once he starts to see the savings he will come round to my way of thinking.
Well I am sorry its a pretty boring post but not much else to report on day one but not a bad start even if I do say so myself.
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