Food budget?

We shop at pack n save, but occasionaly pop to new world if there something we want that u cant get at Pack n Save. We spent around $90-$120 a week - we try and stock up on things we regularly use when they are on sale, so some weeks spend more, sometimes less. Also we buy bread every few days at the dairy.
Its just me, DH and our baby. The only thing we regularly buy for her is Napisan, and I still use disposable breast pads and cos we are using cloth nappies our shopping bill hasnt increased much at all yet.

We buy Nappies also we shop at Pak'n' save here in New Plymouth and we spend about $130-!40 a week including formula for Mikey(5month's) so that feed me DH and Alan almost 2 year's..

Edited by Mummy22

My family is me, DH and my 6 month old DD, and our groceries budget is $300 fortnightly, although I usually do our 'main' shopping weekly - coming in just under budget (including baby food and formula).

We shop at Pak'n'Save in Palmy and spend around $100 a week - its me DH and Andrew. I have been spending a little less over the past month as we had xmas club money to spend in December and we spent most of it on meat so we haven't had to buy that for almost a month other than bbq meat. Even thou Andrew is out of nappies I have still been buying them for number 2 so we know how much the shopping will be when number 2 gets here.

we spend $130 a week thats normaly $20 of that is on meat that we get from super value who have 5 packs of meat $20 We do our main shop at pak in save in wanganui. these me, dh and kalem 5 and madison 8 months we buy formula and nappies for her which is bought with main shop.

We Spend around $130 at the most on groceries we buy everything from pak c save in Christchurch. It's for my partner, me and James we get his nappies in the main shop no formula has he's fully b/f.

Okay then I must seriously be doing something wrong. Is Pak nSave cheaper than Countdown?

We are spending from $160 to $200 but it is usually closer to $200. We dont buy chips, cooldrinks or juices at all. T his doesnt include nappies we buy that somewhere else. We only spent about $10 on extra baby foods.

We buy lots of veggies at the veggie shop ect. So how do you girls do it? I dont buy the most expensive and it is only me, hubby and McKayla.

I can see that if you guys come out with less that I must be able to bring it down drastically. I use to be quite good at budgeting.

We dont buy things like fries, fizzy drink, chocolates, cookies etc....the most expensive stuff we buy at the mo is Nappies (in bulk packs for $38) and then next most expensive is our cereal, as we go thru that fast. I suppose because like others I buy stuff on special and that cuts the cost down a bit. I always keep an eye on foodtown, countdown and new world brochures to see what is on special and since hubby is always on road he stops and grabs it.

I think Pak n Save is cheeper than Countdown but Countdown is not too bad. Foodtown is the worse place to shop....every thing is more expensive there.

Yeah when we moved here we were always shopping at new world, but then when we went to pack n save, a lot of the things we regularly buy where much cheaper, even when not on sale.

We plan out our meals for the week, so we avoid having to pop into the shop for something we dont have to make a meal, and then end up coming out with 10 things! We also shop on Sun, and they seem to clear out the meat on Sun with heaps of specials. We buy whatever meat is on sale,..and if the pack is big we just divide it up before freezing,..then we plan our next week meals around what meat we got on sale the week before. That saves us from planning to buy stuff for like a lamb curry and then having to buy lamb not on sale.

Edited by Kellz

we do the bulk meat etc thing too...we have two freezers in garage and if packs are big we divide them up before freezing...often works out a lot cheaper. We also buy stuff like grated cheese in bulk and put into freezer packs - enough to do toasted sanwiches and say a pasta each pack...

We shop at countdown mostly, but also NW and Woolies...I hate P n S i find it waaay too big and annoyingly set up to walk around!

oh forgot also we spend about $50 a week on dog food and cat food on top of that too...

we also have full pantry so if worst case scenario we could cook for at least two to three weeks with what we have in freezer and pantry and still eat well!