How much do you spend on food a month?

That's cool, carolyn!  Never thought about naan and chapatis!  Might have to give that a try.  I want to do hot cross buns for Easter this year.

We don't diet, but we go through a loaf as a family every few days.  We mostly do whole grain, but we love to experiment.  We have a Panasonic 253 we got in a sale on Amazon last year - free shipping! 

Our ice cream maker is a snap to use, you just have to remember to put the bowl in the freezer the night before you want to use it, but that's no biggie. 

I do add sugar to our yoghurt, just enough to sweeten it up a bit for Aillidh. 

Jam I'm too lazy to make, and we have no garden.  But there's a jam seller at the farmer's market that does gorgeous fruit speads.  Mmmm.  If I'm super lazy, I'll chuck some in ice cream for a quick pud.  It's easy peasy when you have young kids.

Another one I do is to take a banana.  Slice it open sideways.  Stuff w/Cadbury buttons.  Wrap and foil and grill until it goes all melty.  Aillidh LOVES that one!  She says 'delicious'.

I'm feeling inspired now.  Thank you

And the Banana with buttons, OMG!  I have to get some buttons now

(I still don't have enough room for the bread maker , unless I give up something else as well.)

I have a yogurt maker if anyone wants to buy it!!! It is one of the kind that has powder mixes and you use hot water in a large cylinder

and several packets of mixes....


I have only used it twice! It make a large container of it and it just went off before anyone in my family ate it!

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I'm on the low end of the scale....on my own I spend about £10-£15 a week on groceries...with hubs we spend no more than £30 a week....

It all depends on how much you eat - how much you freeze and how much you end up throwing out.

We tend to be quite frugal with food, so nothing goes off and is forced to be thrown out.

I'm on the low end of the scale....on my own I spend about £10-£15 a week on groceries...with hubs we spend no more than £30 a week....

It all depends on how much you eat - how much you freeze and how much you end up throwing out.

We tend to be quite frugal with food, so nothing goes off and is forced to be thrown out.

You need to tell me what you're eating!!! 

I'd find the 50 pounds I lost so quickly!  lol

and i wanan know what you're eating....or not eating, i should say. 

I must be doing something wrong.  I spend nearly £100/week on groceries for the 2 of us, in London.  That's just food and personal items and doesn't include eating-out or alcohol.  We don't eat pre-packaged meals.  All lunches are made at home and brought to work.  Nearly everything we eat is fresh.  I do buy things that are on sale.  What the heck?!   
Now that I'm thinking of it, it's probably the way in which we shop and eat.  I don't like eating the same thing two days in a row, so I usually have a wide variety of food in the house, and our cupboards and fridge are always full.  I could probably skip a week of grocery shopping and still have enough to eat.

and i wanan know what you're eating....or not eating, i should say. 

Ha! -- I didn't mean I lost it quickly, btw (it took nearly 2 years)...only that if I ate lovely puds every day -- I'd gain it back quickly!  I don't diet -- it's just healthy eating (fruit, veg, small to moderate portions, not much junk food at all) and lots of walking.  I could still stand to lose 50 pounds -- I think it's easier when you have so much to lose & I'm under no illusions about how hard the next 50 is going to be.

No, the yoghurt maker is the Lakeland one.  The ice cream maker is the Magimix Le Gelatia or Le something or other. 

Thanks...

I see Lakeland has both things...

I love Lakeland...

*plotting shopping for both...

our cupboards and fridge are always full.  I could probably skip a week of grocery shopping and still have enough to eat.

I always buy an extra few things for the cupboard or the freezer, so that once in awhile, like every 6 or 8 weeks, i can go a week without shopping!