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busymum
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Topic: Staples (groceries) Posted: 04 May 2008 at 8:41pm |
Just wondering how much you buy of staples? We've been looking into this lately because we seem to go through a lot of:
weetbix - a big box each week
fruit - 50pces each week
milk - 12L per week
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Posted: 04 May 2008 at 8:52pm |
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argh i hate how weetbix can cost so much...
prob go thru 14 litres of milk a week and as for fruit, the family are nuts for bananas ... then theres fruit for kindy too so i really dont know about that.
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Posted: 04 May 2008 at 8:55pm |
Bananas - about 5kg, I kid you not, my girls eat almost 1kg a day between them
9l of milk
1kg of pasta
2 x 6 packs of yoghurt
500g block cheese
500g bag of grated cheese
4kg potatoes
5 heads of broccoli
1kg of carrots
Up to 2 dozen eggs
The girls love broccoli, carrot and spud so we eat them most nights.
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Posted: 04 May 2008 at 8:55pm |
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4L of milk per week
1 small box of weetbix lasts 3 months
Loads of fruit and vegetables
1Kg of cheese every 3 weeks
4 Loaves of bread per week
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Posted: 04 May 2008 at 8:57pm |
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Oh yeah, I forgot bread, prob around 10-12 loaves a week, Willie eats a lot of bread, the girls and I not so much.
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Posted: 04 May 2008 at 8:58pm |
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Wow!!!
2 boxes muesli bars
1l normal milk
1l lactose free milk
And I think that's the regular stuff we buy...oh and we always have eggs.
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Posted: 04 May 2008 at 9:08pm |
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OMG!
Not big milk drinkers here
2L Milk a week
3 loaves of bread
2 tins of formula a week
2 pkts of the mini bananas a week
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Posted: 04 May 2008 at 9:12pm |
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2.5L of Milk per week
7 Loaves of Bread (for sandwiches and toast)
1 tin of Formula
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busymum
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Posted: 04 May 2008 at 9:22pm |
Fiona - what does your family eat?????
Neeks - how on earth do you have 4 kids and only 2.5L of milk, wow. We use 12L but that covers warm milos (50/50 with hot water), breakfast cereal and mashed potato. No actual drinking!
I forgot to add 3L yoghurt and 5kg spuds
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Posted: 04 May 2008 at 9:27pm |
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we buy about $40 of fruit and vege - whatever is in season.
eggs - a dozen every week - would buy more but I buy free range from a lady near work
flour
milk
frozen baby peas
garlic
a spice of some sort
couscous
pasta
spaghetti/baked beans
cereal of some kind - we hvae a mountain of leftover weetbix from the rugby cards.
not so much meat now as I bought a lamb
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Posted: 04 May 2008 at 10:16pm |
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6lt milk
8 banana's
box of wheetbix
few oranges and apples
3kg potatos
7 loaves of bread
i think they our main's each week
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Posted: 04 May 2008 at 10:23pm |
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We always have
2-4 loaves of bread
3 litres of milk
Fruit sticks
Sausages
Tinned tomatoes
1 head brocolli
Frozen spinach
Eggs x 6
Rice
Bunch of bananas, sometimes 2
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Posted: 04 May 2008 at 10:24pm |
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We have just started baking our own bread, but before that we'd easily go through four loaves a week if DH took his lunch every week and then we ate at home on the weekends.
Otherwise we go through about 10-12L of milk a week, a dozen eggs, 1kg of peas, 2kg of mixed frozen vege, two packs of yoghurts (so a dozen pottles), half a kilo of cheese, umm... we will probably be going through heaps of mandarins now, plus 4kg of apples and maybe a couple kilos of bananas.
Oh, and between DD & DH we maybe go through a kilo box of weetbix a week.
As for meat it depends, I am trying to get us to cut down but we always buy enough of one thing to last for at least two meals plus leftovers.
These are all just rough estimations though, but now that I have done a bit of thinking on it, might be interesting to keep better track for a week to see just how much we do go through...
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Posted: 04 May 2008 at 11:44pm |
Yoghurts $40 fruit and vege whatever is in season dozen eggs 4 lt of milk 4lt of rice milk 1 kg cheese every 2wks The girls pick a packet of crackers and a packet of museli bars per week 1 loaf of Bread Mince and Chicken
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Posted: 05 May 2008 at 7:29am |
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7 lts milk
7 loaves bread
1 box weetbix
yoghurts
bunch of bananas
bag of apples
bag of potatoes
carrots
bag of mix vege
Eggs
500g cheese
pasta
Tinned foods
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Posted: 05 May 2008 at 8:30am |
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hhhm can only really say in fortnightly amounts cos that's how often we go shopping,
so per fortnight:
1 big box of weetbix,
1 bag (500g) ricies
i bag (500g)cornflakes
1 bag cocoa pops(they just have a couple sprinkled on ricies every now and then)
3 - 4 loaves bread
8 litres milk on shopping day and usually another 2-4 later once its run out
1 dozen eggs
1 large block cheese
1 bag potatoes
1 big bag apples
oranges - 5-6
1 head brocolli
1 bag carrots
1 bag peas,1 bag, beans, 1 bag baby carrots, 1 bag mixed veges
any other veges that take our fancy, eg kumura, pumpkin (depends on what we're planning for dinners)
1 bunch bobby bananas(for brekkies)
5 packs of peaches (3 fruit cups each pack, again, these go on brekkies)
2 pakcs yogurt, (1 kids, 1 fruit)
we don't have too much to spend on lunches as mostly we aren't all home at lunch time. brekkies we alternate between weetbix one day and cereal or toast the next. we chuck in porridge as an alternative to weetbix during winter. fruit is a rule, they usually have half a container peaches and half a banana each on their brekkies, or with the toast etc. and we go through apples like wildfire.
haven't added in meat etc, but tend to buy lots of mince and chicken and lean cuts of beef/lamb/pork.
mostly we go through the milk/bread/cereal/fruit the quickest.
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Posted: 05 May 2008 at 9:19am |
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Holy some of you drink a lot of milk!
We go through:
1L milk a week
1 tin of formula every 5-6 days
1 loaf of bread
1 doz buns
a big tray of eggs a fortnight
Weetbix prolly lasts us a month-6 weeks
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Posted: 05 May 2008 at 12:52pm |
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lolol Stacey, wait till Daniel is bigger.
our milk goes on brekkies, mashing potatoes, and plenty of milos all around. that and we do a mass of baking which takes up a lot.
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Posted: 05 May 2008 at 1:06pm |
At the mo our milk only goes on brekkie.
We don't use milk for spuds (neither DH or I like the taste of it with milk  ) and we don't drink milo. I have hot choc's but they are made with water, not milk. No baking either.
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Posted: 05 May 2008 at 2:20pm |
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Ours is fortnightly too
12L milk
5kg potatoes
1 kg carrots
3 brocolli heads
about $40 on fruit and other veges depending on whats on special
6 loaves of bread
2 kg of frozen mixed veges
I probably spend a good $60 on meat as well
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