Our new weekly budget and plans!

So, as my mum is here long term we sat down and thought about a reasonable shopping budget. Obviously she wanted to contribute to her share being here this long. So we've come up with £60 a week. Sounds loads! That's £20 per adult well with bubba's portion shared in amongst that! It's including household stuff such as toilet roll etc that we all use too.

It's actually been quite easily to stay within budget. Some weeks we've spent the surplus stocking up on tins or teabags. Last week we decided to take a chunk off the next five week's budget and put it towards a big online shop to do a monthly shop of tins, UHT milk, cereals etc. We also took advantage of some items on special offer that keep well or have long dates and meat from the freezer. It's great for the bulky and heavy items that mum and I can't carry home from the shops. Also saves trying to battle the supermarkets etc at weekends when hubby is not working.

So our actual weekly amount to spend is £40 for the next four weeks, normally starts from a Monday. As mum and hubby were out yesterday with the car, we started this week then and did our little top up shop :) our biggest expenditure remains fruit and veg! Bubba just loves snacking on it, often pointing to the fruit bowl! If you sit down with any fruit, he'll steal it!

I tried to come up with a meal plan for this week, but it's a busy week so it's trying to think of ideas that won't take up too much cooking time as I've two days at the hospital and two days with visitors. Although I've always been a fan of my slow cooker, it's really been the most helpful thing. I can prepare dinner in the morning before fatigue and pain get me. It takes a lot longer than it did before. My mum is very good and will help do the chopping etc, although I'm adapting to only having one good hand ;)

I will try and finalise the week's plan later, probably whilst waiting at the hospital over a cuppa (and sneaky cake) and try and publish later. It's not the most exciting one due to the busy week!

Must try and get some sleep, busy day ahead!