Sometimes I feel like I live in a nursery rhyme: Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To give the poor dog a bone: When she came there, The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none. Don’t call the SPCA, but our pets are being affected by the credit crunch. Because the [...]
Slapped cents-less by the global recession, we’re counting on a strict weekly food budget to bring us back to our economic senses. In the holidays, our $100 worth of groceries easily lasted a week, making our goal of buying a rental investment property next year look possible. Then something happened: it was back to school. [...]
Surviving on a grocery budget of $100 a week while keeping the family happy, healthy and clean at both ends is my challenge. A family meeting ascertained our staple list of grocery items. Brainstorming saw pasta, tuna, apples, veges (lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, avocados and capsicum), bread, butter, cheese, tinned fruit and meat on the [...]
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