Have you considered baking your own?
What milk are you using? We're buying Hemp milk and Roasted Almond milk at a pound a litre, each, at Tesco. But pretty much only use it to mix the Daughter's meal supplement powder and also in her tea/coffee. (I prefer "real" milk for my tea and coffee, but a litre lasts me well over a week.)
So £80 a month for bread and milk, still leaves a lot for everything else if you're spending over 1,000 a month! If you did a big meat shop, you have to apportion it out over how long the meat will last you before you count it in your budget, or it'll skew everything!
Oh Nan. Let me wipe the tears from laughing so hard about the baking my husband's bread. LOL!!!!
The milk is the Alpro Soya Junior 1, 2, 3. It's fortified with all the vitamins, minerals, and calcium the kids would get from cow's milk. It's what the paediatrician wants them on.
But yeah, I would love to cut the food bill - big time. That was our New Year's Resolution - to reduce food waste. We have done well with that but we thought it would translate into a savings in our grocery bill. Same time in 2017 we had spent £5,606. This point this year we've spent £7,425. Yeah, we have an extra mouth to feed now (and that boy can EAT). But he hasn't eaten £2k worth of food....
Back to the drawing board. I think that even though I'm dieting, I need to start making dinners again. Remember how ironic it was that just a few short months ago my husband thought we should be able to do the weekly shop for £20? And now that he's doing dinner, it's gone through the roof... interesting.
