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Grocery Shopping Blues

July 31, 2009

I am so over grocery shopping.  Every week for the last, ohhh, 3 months I have tried to find a reason not to do it.  The unfortunate fact is that my family has to eat.  Bugger.
I’m pretty sure I’ve made it as quick and painfree as possible – menu plan, Aldi has only 4 aisles, [...]

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$21 Challenge Fail – Sort Of

June 9, 2009

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Well, the first week of the Simple Savings $21 Challenge has passed. You can read a bit more about the actual challenge here. And although technically I failed because I spent more than $21, I still came out on top.
In total, I spent $55.05 on food items (not including fruit, veg, [...]

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Big Savings on Groceries

June 2, 2009

Over the last few months our bank balance has been looking sadder than usual the week before payday. I don’t think it’s because we’ve been spending excessively, rather the cost of everything – especially groceries – has been increasing.
The Thinker has been picking up our fruit and veg at the market each week. [...]

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Menu Planning – Maintaining the Momentum

February 27, 2009

This week I managed very well to empty the freezer.  The fridge is full to overflowing with leftovers which will make lunches over the weekend easier.  As much as I usually love salad sandwiches, I’m over them as the predominant lunch option on the weekends.  For the next week I’m aiming to double some quantities [...]

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Getting the finances back in order

February 25, 2009

Over the Christmas break and summer holidays I made a conscious effort to let go of some of the restrictions we place on ourselves during the rest of the year.  Schedules pretty much went out the window and, to a certain extent, so did any sort of budgeting.
Now that the new year is well and [...]

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Eat to save your life

July 18, 2008

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Earlier this week I watched Jamie Oliver’s Eat to Save Your Life. What a fascinating program. It was based around analysing the diet of a group of ordinary people and then shocking the pants off them by telling them what would happen if they didn’t change their bad food habits.
I think [...]

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