Food for a family of 5 on £50 a week!

My last challenge of the month linked to food has been a weekly food shop costing no more than £50 for all of our meals.  If this works then it will become a regular saving that I make.

The challenge started on Wednesday 22nd February, lasting for 7 days.  The reason for starting in the middle of the week is that this is the day we receive our organic box of vegetables.  So that is our starting point and our first £14.65 spent for the week.  I will blog again on this topic later on in the week, but for now we have managed with the vegetable delivery plus buying 4 pints of milk (£1.49) and a bottle of soy sauce, essential for our vegetable fried rice dinner last night!  Tonight was pizza for the children from the freezer and home made vegetable crumble for the grown ups.  Lunches are homemade sandwiches and homemade bread for breakfast - so those meals are not too difficult.

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Sunday evening, and there is £18.00 still left in the kitty for the next two days.  Really pleased this challenge has worked and has not actually been too difficult.  I thought I would have to plan a whole week's worth of meals but actually it was fine, partly because we had stores of food - e.g. tins etc, and having our veg box as the starting point gives us a focus for the main ingredients of our meals.  I think that not eating meat also helps a lot as I imagine that is a large percentage of the weekly food shop for many.

So I plan to keep this going, but imagine it will get a bit more challenging as the weeks go by and our dry food runs out - but I've found this week very encouraging and will keep you posted.

Bye for now.