Food Glorious Food!!!!
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If you’re anything like me, grocery shopping has become a budgetters nightmare!
Bit like the cost of living in general eh?
So, I’m feeling particularly thankful for “free food” right now.
Even if I am up to my armpits in tomatoes.
I’m busy trying to freeze as many as I can to use throughout the year. It should really help our budget.
Recently, some friends of ours gave us some pears from their tree.
Beautiful, juicy pears.
I feel so thankful as our trees are not at the production stage yet (and our poor pear tree is looking rather sick at the moment).
There are too many to eat before they go squishy so I’ve also been trying to blanche and freeze a few serves of those.
Then on Saturday, I had to go into town for a couple of things. I rarely shop on a Saturday. Add on to the fact that it was a Saturday of a long week and I got a big score in the bakery section of our supermarket.
Our supermarket rarely marks things down and when they do things are either already out of date or they’re only marked down a small amount.
So to walk out with half a dozen packets of cheese & bacon rolls for 99c, as well as 3 packets of pita bread and 3 bags of other rolls, all for 99c (instead of the usual $4-$5) was wonderful. The kids were in 7th heaven. Things like cheese and bacon rolls are a rare treat around here at over $1 per roll.
All of this “help” with our food costs got me to thinking.
Last year we had a terrible “blow out” when it came to spending. In all areas of our budget.
This year, I’ve been trying to do better.
And all of a sudden stuff happens that helps me out?
Is it coincidence?
I’ve had this happen before.
When we take care of our finances, we seem to be blessed in ways that help us to do so even more.
When we get slack and have a “don’t care” attitude, money seems to fly out the door even faster than before.
Is it just me or have others had a similar experience?
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I’ve noticed the same thing. When I’m careful and put away a small amount on purpose each week, I find I rarely have to dip in to this emergency stash.
When I don’t do it, I often find the money disappears into thin air.
Sometimes I notice this and sometimes i dont. however I am often reminded how much the Lord looks after us when I have runout of vegies and dad pops in with exactly enough to stretch the food for a few meals.. how awesome.
I have lately been wondering how much the average family is spending on food though as I seems to only get a few bags for $150 these days! However I am thankful I can still provide variety in meals for my growing family . I still think that going back to meat and veg./salad iwould be cheaper and healthier than some meals covered in sauces etc.. maybe not so tasty though.
I have noticed lately that when I set aside money to save or for a set puropse the remaining seems to stretch as far as its needed.. bizzare hey ?