Category: Shopping

When I first read this site last year Simple Savings – $21 Challenge I thought there was no way a city person could meet this challenge of spending only $21 for food for the week as we don’t have as much access to free food. I’ve realized over the last few months though that it’s more about slowly building your cupboards/freezer up until one week you find that you actually don’t need to shop that much. We got it down to $30 a few weeks ago (not counting cat food!) and cleared almost the whole freezer out which was great as it needed a good clean out. Hubby moaned a little but I pointed out to him that we ate pretty much the same as we did most weeks – it was mostly in his brain that we needed to go out and BUY.

You can pay to access this site, they are having a sale at the moment! I just read Penny’s blog for the weeks where there is free access or the monthly newsletters. I can’t say I have got my spending down to $21 yet!  

 

Shopping this morning at the supermarket we faithfully had our shopping list – we were a very distinct minority. To cut down our shopping time even more we now have a shopping list that I’ve sectioned off into the areas of the supermarket as we meet them. Yeah I know, starting to border on the insane! However I think there are so many things at the moment that we can’t control that it helps life go a bit easier if you control the things you can such as time. So anyway there I was at the butter noting that Rolling Meadows was $2.88 per 500g this week when a man bent down beside me and picked up the Anchor butter which was $4.74. I wanted to blurt out “Do you know the other one is almost $2 cheaper?!!” but I stopped myself. Should I have? – do you go up to a stranger and tell them? I thought there might be a difference in the two types of butter so I went home and checked. I have Anchor in the fridge from the last shop when it was on special for $2.64.  The only difference in the nutritional information seems to be that Anchor has 0.4g less saturated fat per serving, but both have the same amount of fat and sodium overall. So I’m still no wiser why the guy bought a butter so much more expensive? What I have learnt this morning though from looking at the butter so closely is that my butter has a shelf life of about a year so next time butter is on special buy it!