The Simple Saving website has the July challenge of saving $50 a week off your expenses Simple Savings – Free Newsletters. I don’t belong to the simple savings club but I keep in touch with the website every now and then – I thought it sounded like a good challenge. For the first week of July I’ve cut the money off our food expenses by avoiding takeaways and only grocery shopping for the very essentials. There are enough ingredients in the freezer and cupboards to make meatballs and spaghetti for dinner tonight and a chicken and rice dish with roti for dinner tomorrow. Hubby didn’t buy his lunch yesterday so that will help save $10 this week also. Baking wise for nibbles I’ve tried the coconut loaf again this morning adding jam swirled in the middle of it this time to see what that turns out like (only had a small amount of jam left – more next time!). All up cutting back on food spending should save us at least $100 this week (which of course goes to show in our house hold that normally we spent far too much on food).
