August Money

After my little rant about not spending enough on food and people wanting the cheapest food available, I decided to doument my expenses.
It should be noted that I have 4 chickens so eggs don't cost anything, I have a garden (but I'm not growing a great deal at the moment), and I already have stuff like bread & meat in the freezer. However I will need to repenish theses.

It will be interesting to see how much I spend in a month and compare it to other months.

Aldi

4 x organic butter                      Organic Yoghurt
3 x strawberries                         Baby cucumbers
2 x 750g bananas                       200g grape tomatoes
500g Brussel Sprouts                4 x organic pureed apple (Breanna is cutting 3 teeth & wont eat)
3x Oatcakes (3 ingredient!)        Block organic chocolate
Kalamata Olives                        Triple brie cheese
Tea

$59.10

Local Fruit Shop

12 x strawberries
2 kilo over ripe bananas (freeze for smoothies etc)
2 x bunches of silverbeet
2K oranges
2K pink lady apples
1K purple carrots
Box of apples
Swiss Brown mushrooms
6 bunches asparagus
proscuitto

$57.00

Abundant Organics

mix vegetable box
6 x royal gala apples
raw cream
2 x raw milk 2L
2 x bunches of kale
2x water
5 x 2L  unhomoginised milk
2 kilo potatoes
12 pink lady apples
6 pears
2 bunches beetroot
6 sourdough rolls
2 x loaves sourdough bread
2 x Kamut spaghetti
2 K bananas

162.75 (includes delivery)

Alcohol

2 x bottles wine

$24

Hospital Food

$45
This includes coffees. They do have "real' meal and I have brought the best options possible. This expense is from visiting my Ma who was in for an operation. I need to pack more snack options.


Woolworths

2 x Macro vegetable chips                              9 Squeezie organic puree (Again teething)
6 x 1litre organic non homoginised milk        2 litre Organic yoghurt
2 x Double cream                                             Roast Garlic Dip
Double Brie                                                     Organic watercrackers
300g natural yoghurt                                       4 K cherries (on clearance!)
maple syrup                                                     1 K organic peanut butter

$64.00


GO VITA HEALTH FOOD

5 x Sourdough bread
Co Yo Ice cream ( I spent $14.95 0n this but it was worth it!!!)
1 kilo rolled oats
1 K Rapudura sugar
1 K green lentils

$65.40

Local Butcher

Traditional Beef roast
1 K beef soup bones

$18

Grand Total:  $495.25

Was this 20% of my monthly wages?NO!!! This amount was approximatley $100 (give or take a couple of dollars) off that amount. So this is a mega budget food. Again I already had some meat etc in the freezer but we didn't use all of it, so I go into September with things I don't have to buy.

Real food in the bigger scheme of things doesn't cost that much. My food bill would of been less without the alcohol & hospital food.

So remember next time you say "real food is too expensive"  that you are only fooling yourself!