The fire is cranking, and there is a lovely aroma of baking bread, this is what Sunday evening in winter is meant to be. This morning I did something I've never done before. I did a stock take of our freezer and pantry. Have you ever got a handle on just how much "stock" you have on your shelves?
Hubby loves a good meat special. Loves it. And our freezer is full of meat, I know cos I counted it today. We have 10 kilos of meat that we are keeping cold, half of which is chicken. So let's say that on average we bought that meat at approx 9.99 a kilo, that's 100 meat-y dollars. Frozen assets you could say (!) We have a good amount of tins, veges and assorted Japanese items (I say items cos I'm never quite sure what the packets are). We also boast an insane amount of pasta and noodles.
We also spend a ridiculous amount on feeding and watering ourselves. $300 a week. After a small and informal poll on facebook last week it seems that this is a fairly normal amount... for your average 4 person family. But our household is just the two of us, and a wild corgi.
So, we are making a change this month. Instead of shopping for tea each night, we are going to fling open the pantry doors, and feed ourselves from that. We have also set ourselves a weekly budget of $30 per week, and that'll save us over a grand, the cost of a weekend in Auckland we are planning this month.
Wish us luck, I'll blog our meals to show you the hopefully delicious, and probably odd meals being thrifty will bring you.
Wish us luck, I'll blog our meals to show you the hopefully delicious, and probably odd meals being thrifty will bring you.
