@Magickxx How much so you pay if you don’t mind me asking. My weekly shop for 2 adults and 2 kids comes to about £80/90. Exante costs me £22 for one week. Me weekly food shop this week came to £70. So I haven’t saved. Spent about the same, slightly more.
So when I saw Cambridge I think it said £2.50 per meal. Which is over £50 for the week. Does that seem about right?
Each consultant sets their own prices so it varies but this week i have found what i like and have a ready made shake for breakfast (in the car on the way to work) and a normal shake for lunch and dinner. It costs me around £44 a week.
Our weekly shop is around £45 for hubby and I and our daughter so it effectively has doubled our food costs, but hubby is vaguely trying to do a keto type diet and has bulk bought protein bars from amazon so overall we are spending somewhere in the region of £80 per week atm for Cambridge, hubbys bars/shakes and daughters meals and lunch box bits.
To make life easier for us whilst on a diet we have pre-prepared our daughters meals as soon as we got home from shopping. It would be too much of a challenge to make a fresh dinner every day so have tried to remove temptation and make our lives easier. She wrote a 'menu' of her favourite dinners and we have basically bought 2/3 weeks worth and got it ready to cook. She asked for meatballs so we bought a ready balled tray of 12 from Morrisons, put them in a bowl with the chopped tomatoes, passata and herbs then portioned out four 3 meatball servings so in the morning she decides what she would like for dinner and we get a portion out of the freezer to defrost for the evening.
It has worked out much cheaper than i thought as it goes so far and takes away any temptation to nibble as there are no extras to worry about.
Did the same but pre-cooked and froze portions of sausage casserole etc
So cost around £80 last week but realistically other than some fresh fruit, etc for her lunchbox and cat food we wont need standard supermarket shopping for at least 2 weeks, maybe 3.
Expensive to start but doable for us, know it would be different if we had more children or if she was a bottomless pit of a teenager. Thankfully she in only 8 so we have that bit yet to come!
