Having decided to see how to eat on no more than £1 per day per person, we figured we'd set up a blog about it to help us record how it goes, and perhaps because it will be of use to others. It's not the first blog to do this, and I dare say it won't be the last either.
We're doing it not because we are struggling to pay for food at a higher rate than that but partly from a desire to be frugal, but also because one day we'd like to buy somewhere to live. Right now, people living and working in the vicinity of London face the situation that house prices go up in one year more than a school teacher's annual gross salary -- i.e. a house "earns" more money that a person's labour. This is largely thanks to successive governments doing what they can to appease property-owners, but it is pricing young people out of property if they don't have money to inherit. Mere wage-slaves such as we are will find it hard to get our own place to live. If we can save more money, there may be hope (as long as we earn more money than teachers - even saving their whole gross salary will not be enough).
Anyway. We're going to try to document here how we do. Starting in December is maybe an odd choice, with Christmas coming up which we'll be spending away with family. We'll post regularly with updates on food expenditure. We're aiming for £1 per day per person, including the two adults and one 7yo in the family, but not the baby. We'll make best estimates of what the food already in our cupboards cost. We're not going to be able to do things like ensure we go to the supermarkets at just the right time to get the discounted perishables, but I'm sure just running this experiment will make us think even more carefully about what we buy when we do go shopping.
More later!
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