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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Cant just be us. Groceries for the week just cost $511.
Me and the mrs, 2 dogs and a cat. Granted this was one of the weeks that included toiletries and windex etc.. No takeaways, home cooked healthy meals, mainly meat based as we are on keto. We couldve trimmed about 50 bucks off for dog treats and a slab of coke zero. Everything is home brand or the cheapest of its kind on special. No smokes, booze etc in it either. We have tried going to butchers and grocers seperately in the past but it wasnt any cheaper, and surprisingly the meat wasnt as good. How high can this go? Us with a small mortgage, no kids and both on pretty good coin with work cars are now starting to feel it a bit. I really dont know how young families are doing it with new houses and 2 new cars on finance. I guess my observation is that prices never come down, but wages cant go up either because most of our industries are already struggling. Whats the end game here? |
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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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Two people, weekly shop averages $160. I monitor it - not obsessively, but to see how things are tracking.
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praek tih kl jo kr
Join Date: Mar 2011
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Full retail price is only for people who pay for your discounts
![]() I know some people will roll their eyes, weirdo prepper etc, the more you read the more you will understand the madness, A old couple told us this 30 years ago and it took us a while to adopt the right attitude to make it work, we too thought why bother at the time, this is not about hoarding supplies in case zombies attack or a nuclear attack or whatever, its to save money plain and simple . You have to look at this as a yearly saving your not going to see the reward until you have what you need. Based on what you just purchased, your yearly grocery bill would be $26,572, you can halve this and in some cases go even lower depending on your will power and your storage space ![]() Its simple, you just need to adopt different shopping habits, places like Coles and Woolies etc will have lots of specials as they always do, they tell you they are keeping prices down blagh, blagh, blagh, they are full of crap, they recoup the discount they give you on other needed items that are not on special, so you might save $1 on your bag of Pasta, but pay a extra $1 on the sauce to go with it, they are in the business of making profit they are not just going to discount stuff without recouping it somewhere else, so to beat the system you need to buy a whole carton of pasta when its on special instead of 1 packet, but only buy 1 sauce for the week, next week the sauce will be on special and the pasta will be more expensive, so a carton of sauce goes in the trolly, this will give you pasta and sauce for the rest of the year, you adopt this on nearly every item you need, before you know it you will have a stock of weekly used products and a yearly bill that is thousands and thousands cheaper, you wont need to buy that item at full price ever again, you do need a room you can use to store it all or lots and lots of cupboard space and you will save money yearly over time by even not having to go to the shop at all, I am lucky as I have a 5 bedroom house but only use 2 as bedrooms, 1 is now our store room, the other 2 are for guests . For an example I use LYNX deodorant, it is usually $6.50 per can, wife found it for $2 per can, she purchased 30 cans @$60 with a usual full retail of $195 ( they had to grab her a box from out the back ![]() I myself have never really looked at a grocery bill ( not my dept ![]() You have to buy the meat in bulk, so we pay $800 for just over a couple of months worth of meat to feed 3, the one we use does chicken, pork, lamb, beef sausages etc, can you imagine buying a weeks worth of meat for $100 from a supermarket?, not going to happen, be lucky to get 4 half decent steaks, and seeing meat will be the biggest expense on most shopping lists its a good idea to look for a farmer who butchers his own meat, our contact was from word of mouth and he delivers once a week to Perth metro. Luckily the wife has always had a habit of buying stuff in bulk when its on special or from places that sell bulk at discounted prices, so we have a store room full of most household weekly needed supplies, not even a really big thing to do even if you are struggling and not a bad habit to slowly adopt if you can, you just need to start out small like a couple of extra items each week and you get to a point where your weekly shop is only to top up the store and buy bulk items that are on special, we would save thousands each year just on buying when on special, one of the best things I ever did with the money we saved was buy a 700ltr chest freezer its now full of frozen specials ![]() |
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Purveyor of fine filth
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Family of three here and the grocery bill is around the $240 a week mark of late. The same groceries would have been close to $190 not that long ago.
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Same as prktkljokr
Pantry room in a spare room, freezer and vacuum sealer, shop the specials and stock up. Helps that the Mrs is a Chef too. Vege's come from local farm gates or markets. Meat bought in bulk portioned at home. We've been doing alright lately, scotch @13kg, fresh local prawns @$6kg, thats surf and turf a couple of nights a week for the next few months. Razors half price, got a years supply. Meat and vege scraps vac packed and saved for soup stock later, waste not want not. Once again same as prktkljokr has said, its just habit now, its helped us to be mortgage free and I'm starting to get fat in my middle age ![]() Love hearing people complain about the cost of going out too, we try to get out a couple of nights a week and do the local parmi and pint, pasta, pizza, ribs specials. Nothing over $25ea. Its not all doom and gloom out there if you choose to make some changes.
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Three of us $250 to $270 a week.
My special dietary requirements add significantly to my bill; no chicken (allergy) no gluten and especially no, potatoes or other nightshade vegies (otherwise my psoriasis flares up and not just on my skin but in my gastrointestinal system - seems it is virtually an extension of the skin so it bleeds). But yes it has increased by about $100.00 on what it used to be a couple of years ago. Jack being in a regional location like Ballarat rather than a capital city with less competing stores and likely higher transport costs won't help. Perth and WA suffer a bit too with a lot of goods (probably needlessly) shipped here from the EAST but places like spudshed and Aldi help by providing competition to Coles and Woolies.
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You are right, it is tough times atm, cost of living has skyrocketed with no relief in sight for the middle incomes, I've even delayed my retirement for a year or two so I can secure more funds.
Your cost of $511 is certainly high for a couple's weekly groceries bill, you need to try different shops for different discounts & specials, try shopping in stores such as "NQR" https://nqr.com.au/ for better deals, as others stated, bulk shopping is another way to save. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2013
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Couple of problems when it comes to groceries-
Ingredients now cost more than the finished item (priced a lasagne from scratch vs ready made tray?) “Bulk” very rarely means cheaper per kg when colesworth is involved. You buy a bigger pack when it’s convenient, it’s not automatically cheaper per kg. Technically groceries are up 9% (heard on the radio) which is BS, there’s a whole stack of my trolley that has DOUBLED since the pandemic.
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$8 - 5 piece KFC FTW.
On a serious note, I find if you sacrafice a bit of convenience and time (that is, not shop at colesworth), you can reduce your bills quite substantially by bargain hunting at the independents and smaller chains. One of my favourites is Mercato. Tomorrow specials - $1 avacados, $1kg zuccini, $3kg eggplant, $4kg green beans. They do these deals every day. Won't ever find that at colesworth. KFL - 2 dozens eggs 700g $7.50 all day every day. Tasman and Aussie Butchers have good deals every day. I raw feed my dog, it can get exey, but these two joints have saved me a lot of $$$.
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: South Aus.
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Yep raped at either end of the chain, by the likes of filthy Woolworths etc, who have been making record profits as usual.
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praek tih kl jo kr
Join Date: Mar 2011
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I was thinking the same thing when I saw the $511 grocery bill
4 x Hungry Jacks small burger meals per day @ $7 each, works out to be $196 per week, no need for plates, knives, forks, detergent, fridge etc, and it only works out to $10220 per year, could mix it up with a few Domino's budget pizzas, chicken dinner or two from Red rooster all within budget, and it leaves $315 per week for living it up ![]() ![]() |
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DIY Tragic
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I was waiting for your explanation of how you doubled your savings on Lynx by only wearing deodorant every other day.
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praek tih kl jo kr
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I'm not that thrifty, I would say most of it ends up in the air anyway, I wouldn't say I waste stuff but no longer care if I have to throw something out like I used to when we were struggling to make ends meet
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$511 per week? You’re doing something horrifically wrong. We are $230 meat included. |
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But its usually over that. This week was the biggest ever by a fair whack. I wonder if people saying theres is so much lower is forgetting about lunches or the smoko van? And yeah we were way better off financially living on takeout and junk food. It probably shouldnt be that way. |
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We only eat whole foods at home. Meat, veg, fruit, spices. Saves an absolute fortune. Veggie shop for the week at farmers market averages $70. Meat and eggs for the week averages $60. We buy direct from farmer and I butcher, plus I hunt for about 30% of our meat. Consumables, washing liquid etc $20 a week. Family of 4, all my kids lunches are home cooked for school, no packet anything.
Went to woolies the other day for the first time in forever as needed an egg flip. Man the prices there are insane, $10 for a tube of toothpaste, $30 for washing liquid. Obviously people pay it, or they wouldn’t sell it.
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praek tih kl jo kr
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You do know I'm joking, I eat chicken salad nearly every day for lunch, and a proper cooked meal each night, junk food is a sometimes meal, but it just goes to show that you can live off a smaller amount, if they can make your meal for $7, you should be able to as well, but be able to eat well too, my chicken salad would only be $5 tops.
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$500? Love to see the receipt
No one is forcing you to buy marble score 10+ Wagyu porterhouse. Eating out at your local club every night would be cheaper.
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Are you hoping for some advice on how to save some money? If so; Where do you shop? Do you shop for specials? What sort of meat are you buying, for example, hamburger mince or rib eye steak? What all of the guys are suggesting can reduce your bill quite considerably. An example would be dynamo, it is normally $29 but every few weeks it goes on special for $14.50. Today I went shopping and bought 4 bottles. |
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Media the other day was showing some supermarkets were doing 800% mark up on spuds.
Dont buy Vegies at the supermarket.....big savings & better quality from independent Veg retailers & most often have local produce as well! |
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Yeah thats up there...we eat well and have 4 kids and we are doing it on 300-350 per week at the moment and thats all meals including their lunches!
Used to get away with it for $250ish but that hasnt happened in a while.
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another good reason to not support Woolworth's.
![]() Most of our shop for 2 is from farm gates and local producers, cheaper, fresher than supermarkets.
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Their markups on every line item in the produce section are mental, doesn't matter the time of year or weather conditions. A recent example is pumpkin (kent or Jap), Woolies had it for $1 a kilo, they were buying it for $0.15 a kilio. |
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I watch the apprentices spend $20-30 a day on the smoko van, 2-3 items and a can of overpriced Mother, then they borrow tools and say they cant afford good tools. Why pay $3 for a can of coke off a smoko truck when you can buy a block of 30 for under $30? |
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Tbf
Re pumpkins Two truck trips One to supermarket distribution centre One to local store Handling in/ out at distribution store Handling in/ out local store back dock then to produce customer area If you say 5 c for each of the above the supermarket gross profit is 55c of the $1 sale price As other s have said we buy fruit and veg at farmers market and meat chicken from an independent butcher |
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If it's available switching to online shopping for your groceries can also save you money on your weekly shopping as:
a) it stops the so called "impulse buying" or unplanned purchases of unneeded "specials" or promotional items often placed near the checkouts or at the end of rows: b) it's easier to compare prices and price per gm or kgm of competing products online; c) shelf placement has no impact on your purchase; supermarkets usually give the most prominent and easiest to see and access shelf space to products that give them the most profit (so often the most expensive ones); and d) in WA at least at the moment half the things you order won't actually be in stock so won't be delivered and your bill will be halved (with the added benefit of a forced diet - back to the daily bowl of poorhouse gruel) per : https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/super...act-c-14233888 Quote:
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