Staples (groceries)
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Topic: Staples (groceries)
Posted By: busymum
Subject: Staples (groceries)
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 8:41pm
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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 By: Bizzy
Date 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. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 8:55pm
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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. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: FionaS
Date 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 ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: Maya
Date 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. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: minik8e
Date 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. |
Posted By: .Mel
Date 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 ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: Neeks
Date 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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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 9:22pm
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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 ------------- |
Posted By: lizzle
Date 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 |
Posted By: 11111
Date 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 ------------- Deborah Mum to:   
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Posted By: caraMel
Date 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 ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: HippyMama
Date 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... ------------- Mama to two earth walkers & two angels. Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being. ~ Kittie Franz Next Slingbabies! Meet - Friday 4th May !! |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 04 May 2008 at 11:44pm
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Yoghurts
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Posted By: Glow
Date 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 ------------- Mummy of Two Boys B: 2004 K: 2007 |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date 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. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date 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 |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date 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. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 05 May 2008 at 1:06pm
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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 By: Rachael21
Date 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 |