Well, so far we have bust our budget... we went to Tesco last night to get the bits that we needed, and they had free range chicken breasts reduced. As they never ever have free range stuff reduced, we decided to stock up... and spent £18 on chicken alone... but it has all gone into the freezer and we will have it over the coming months. We did save £12 in reductions though!
Also, isn't it always the way that when you are trying to save money, you run out of everything expensive; we were out of tea (an absolute essential but costs £5 per box!) and also olive oil (another essential, but £4 odd per litre.)
So, if we really take just what will be used this week only, we are still within our budget having got the following:
(£7 left of the £10)
Bread flour - 42p
Yeast - 60p (we are going to try Tesco's own brand... it'll be interesting to see if that works as well as Hovis)
Pate (for packed lunches) - £1 (*on special so we got a nice one)
Sausages - £5 but most of these will go in the freezer - again on special 20 sausages for £5, we will use 4 this week, we will have spent £1.
Total spend for this week: £3.02!
I know that it sounds odd to say 'well we've not spent that, and we've not spent that' but in the long run, by budgeting that to another week, and including what we have in the freezer for this week, we will have saved ourselves money...
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The challenge sounds good Wenchie and I like the way you're recording all you spend. I think that the chicken is definately a good buy for the future. BTW, Laura on Hungry and Frozen has a great recipe for a tomato polenta which looks really tasty and economical too!
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