Do you find it easy to stick to a fixed budget for your weekly shopping items here?
I totted up all my receipts from the last seven days, and was quite horrified how much out of our 'supposed' budget I had managed to overspend.
I try to plan meals carefully, so hardly any expensive 'impulse' buys, just the regular things that most mums would buy for a family of three including cleaning products,washing powder loo rolls etc!
The only 'luxury' items we indulge in are a couple of bottles of wine and beer, some Coca Cola for 'the teenager', and maybe a small tub of ice cream per fortnight. I don't buy biscuits,chocolate or cakes!
I have even tried to shop in different stores, Pak and Save, Countdown and New World - but have found that there has been very little difference between them when comparing the same type of goods - just a few cents.
Do you have any tips that you would like to share - or ideas that you have found since you arrived that have proved invaluable?
Ps: Compared to when we were in the UK we hardly ever throw anything away either - so no food wastage here (apart from the occasional piece of fruit that has past it's best!)