It's been exactly four weeks since I started on my new rationing lifestyle, so I think it's time to have a little recap and check my figures. Here's me just popping on my reading glasses. 😄
Each week up to now I have been able to take my ration foods from the stores of food that I already had in, so for the first month I have not had to buy any of the milk, cheese, fats, oil, sweets, sugar etc etc. It was the same for the monthly, bi-monthly and points shopping. All came from my food cupboard or fridge. So the only spending I have had to do was on bread, vegetables, some washing up liquid ... oh and multipack of sanity-saving crisps.
My spending has been as follows:
Week One from Booths - £5.25
Week Two from Sainsbury's - £13.80
Week Three from Aldi - £1.15
Week Four from Booths - £3.59
So a total spend during this first month of rationing of just £23.79.
As I am allowing myself £10 a week at the moment ... it might change further down the line if that proves too little ... that leaves me with £16.21 of my first months £40 in my royal mug.
Now officially, as I have been doing this for four weeks it should be time for me to have another twenty points to buy the next months Points shopping, but I have decided that doing this mid-month every month is just too complicated, so from now on I will get another twenty points on the first of each month. Luckily I still have a lot of the foods I bought with my points available for me to be able to ride out these three weeks, although the three biscuits that I have left are not going to last me three weeks!! 😄
Now all I have to do is complete the rest of September on the foods that I already have in and the additional weekly rations that I should still be able to get together from the fridge and cupboard each Monday.
I have also decided that I am going to try not to spend any of my money until the first of October. If I have to then I have to, but my aim is to get to the end of the month with NO SHOPPING AT ALL. If I use up the fresh vegetables that I have left in the fridge first and then work my way through the frozen ones in the freezer that I have had since before the Challenge began, this should be possible.
I am already out of bread, but after last weeks mouldy bread incident I think a couple of weeks without eating bread will be just fine. I do have a couple of boxes of crackers in the pre-rationing food cupboard and once they run out ... Potato Pete will be my new best friend instead.
So in a way the last three weeks of September are to be a bit of a reset.
No, or very minimal shopping.
No points rations available.
Use up what I have in the freezer to make space.
Top up The Royal Cash Pot with as much as possible ready for future shopping.
Sue xx
