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wickedcherub) wrote2011-07-06 11:45 pm
wickedcherub) wrote2011-07-06 11:45 pm
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I've been thinking about this whole living frugally business and came across this website:
http://www.stayathomemum.net.au/my-pantry/grocery-shopping/
It's a website that helps people live on one wage so that one parent can stay at home.
Apparently you can grocery shop for $50 a week. This woman shops for her meat only every 8 months. Here is here dinner list:
Dinners: Bacon & Egg Pie, Spaghetti Bol, Beef Chow Mein, Sausages in Pastry, Devilled Sausages, Pasta Cabonara, Apricot Chicken Legs, Savoury Mince on Toast, Spaghetti & Meatballs, Roast Chicken, Chicken Pasta. All are either served with vegies or have vegies in them.
SCREW THAT. I would definitely find work, even one day a week or something, extra work I can do at home, maybe clean someone's house for an hour or two, just so I can get some fish into the family diet. Maybe some fresh meat that isn't minced or cooked to smithereens. Also - how fatty does that all sound? It's all creamy sauces or pastry or sausages! Or sausages in pastry!
That is all.
http://www.stayathomemum.net.au/my-pantry/grocery-shopping/
It's a website that helps people live on one wage so that one parent can stay at home.
Apparently you can grocery shop for $50 a week. This woman shops for her meat only every 8 months. Here is here dinner list:
Dinners: Bacon & Egg Pie, Spaghetti Bol, Beef Chow Mein, Sausages in Pastry, Devilled Sausages, Pasta Cabonara, Apricot Chicken Legs, Savoury Mince on Toast, Spaghetti & Meatballs, Roast Chicken, Chicken Pasta. All are either served with vegies or have vegies in them.
SCREW THAT. I would definitely find work, even one day a week or something, extra work I can do at home, maybe clean someone's house for an hour or two, just so I can get some fish into the family diet. Maybe some fresh meat that isn't minced or cooked to smithereens. Also - how fatty does that all sound? It's all creamy sauces or pastry or sausages! Or sausages in pastry!
That is all.
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It's all very well and good for people to say things like "oh, shop at Aldi because it's so cheap!" But unless you want to live on pies, chips, frozen pastries and packaged foods and eat all of those preservatives then there is no way you can shop as cheaply as people say. I get so frustrated because we are living off one wage and it's so hard to afford decent food to put on the table.
/rant.