This weeks offer from Coles was $50 worth of points if I spend $60 a week for four weeks – finally a good offer! So heres a roundup of this weeks shopping:

Bakers Delight: $9.70 6 cheese & bacon rolls, 6 bread rolls + 1 free loaf of bread

Butcher: $22.03 – 12 thin sausages, 10 rissoles – both $10/kg

Coles: $111.09  savings $35.46 + $10 off -total shop value was $156.55

18 rolls toilet paper  $8
1.5kg sweet potato  $3.09
750 ml vegetable oil $3
1kg carrots $1.50
1.7kg Kent pumpkin  $3.09
1kg baby potatos  $2.62
1 avocado $3.90
1kg block cheese $11
250g parmesan cheese  $6.10
250 mls rice wine vinegar  $2.35
400g tomato paste  $4.80
1 BBQ chicken $8
6 pack cat food $4.80
3 punnets perino tomatos $9
6 bananas 4.03
4 gala apples $2.05
100 Green teabags $5.49
80 Camomile teabags $5.49
80 Peppermint teabags $5.49
150g rice cakes
1.68kg pears $1.68
1 pkt scotch finger biscuits $2
1 pkt orange cream biscuits $2
500g capsicums $3.35
4 x 250g punnets strawberries $10
125g raspberries $4

Good buys this week were pears $1/kg and teabags half price – I refuse to pay $11 for 80 herbal teabags, so when its half price I stock up.  The 1kg block of cheese on special cost the same price as a 500g block.

We had less trips to the corner shop this week. Once to get milk, bread, bacon, capsicum, tomatos & cheese to make pizzas and a second time to buy some junk food after a very stressful day at work – a habit I need to break!

Corner shop spending: $50.47


Total spend this week:$193.29


We ate a 1kg minced meat, an apple pie and two packets of frozen veggies from the freezer this week and two packets of soup from the pantry.

I cooked the apples from last week into applesauce and froze them and we also froze 6 meals of Bolognese sauce after making spag bol with the mince.

This weeks plan – eat more out of the freezer & pantry & reduce food waste.