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Grocery Shopping Today

June 2nd, 2012 at 07:05 am

I said I was planning to only spend $70 on groceries today, well was I wrong. All up it ended up to be $107. Spent $21.29 at the Asian shop, $9.36 at Woolworths (we didn't bother going to Aldi, it's out of the way and we didn't need to get much stuff from there) and the rest was spent at the market. Decided to get about a month's worth of meat, all up we spent almost $54. It was cheaper to get 2kilos worth of stuff than just a kilo that's why we got more than I was planning. I didn't mind, I prefer we only go to the market once a month instead of twice because of the crazy parking. We also got $18 worth of cheeses (got 5 different types of cheese) and salami at the deli.

So we only got $113 left in the budget for the month (about $28-30 p/week). I think it is doable.

3 Responses to “Grocery Shopping Today”

  1. Tightwad Kitty Says:
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    Menu plan and you will be right!

  2. snafu Says:
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    Since January, I'm finding that prices are going up weekly at our grocery stores. My food 'budget' based on sums spent last year are not do-able. Has there been huge increases in cost of foods in OZ?

  3. Shiela Says:
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    Hi Kitty, good advice. I will definitely be doing that for this month.

    Snafu yeah some items have gone up but I think an increase in competition in supermarkets have kept some prices down (staples have never been cheaper until now). I'm actually trying to lower our grocery spending this year. So far it has been alright but I'm definitely using all the tricks that I know.

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