We have set a weekly grocery limit of $35 (for one adult and a teenager). We can stick to this by making our own cleaning products and cosmetics (we do virtually everything with baking soda now) and by utilising the resources available on the farm – veggie garden, cows milk eggs and a beast in the freezer – takes the pressure off. \u00a0Don’t forget I used to have access to all this and yet still spend hundreds at the supermarket weekly. So happy to have changed.<\/p>\n
But we have just shifted \u00a01000kms and the cows are dried off, chickens are on strike and the veggie garden has been left behind. \u00a0The freezer is empty as I gave all the meat away before the big move. So now I am in the same boat as many others with scarce resources. \u00a0We are sticking to the budget, and this month I am logging every meal to give some idea on how we get around the\u00a0dilemma\u00a0of eating well with scarce resources. Luckily there is a veggie garden at our new place with herbs, kumera and salad greens, lemons etc. At the end of the month I will post my list of what we ate and what we spent.<\/p>\n
I am trying to illustrate that this is about changing your lifestyle expectations. It is about making\u00a0different\u00a0choices to still attain\u00a0a\u00a0positive\u00a0result. \u00a0Here is an example: \u00a0I have run out of milk. \u00a0We got a 3 litre milk in our grocery shop, but we have nearly spent the whole months budget in the first 10 days (we shifted here with virtually nothing, so we stocked up a bit). So now I am dying for a coffee (but the coffee jar actually got smashed on the trip so we don’t have any and no budget left to\u00a0get\u00a0any). \u00a0There’s a few tea bags but I’m not that keen on black tea (a last resort). So then I \u00a0think what have I got? Fresh lemons and fresh ginger, so now I am enjoying a hot lemon tea with fresh ginger sweetened with honey – its amazing and much much better for me than the coffee I was craving.<\/p>\n
Living on a low self imposed grocery budget opens the doors to fresh and healthier thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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