Last week my husband and I ate only vegetarian food. We did this for two reasons. 1) to save some of the meat in the freezer to last until the end of the month and 2) It's always good to eat less meat and try to focus more on greens.
It wasn't an easy week but we made it work. Yesterday we had a roast chicken and it was marvellous. I'm hoping to do this vegetarian week thing at least 7 days out of the month.
We had vegetarian pot pie, baked tomato pasta, vegetarian stir fry, broccoli creamy pasta, rice and cajun beans and some burritos. It wasn't hard to think of vegetarian foods but it was hard making sure that the food had enough protein in it. We didn't seem to miss any meat and it was easy to cook this way. I was pretty happy with the way things turned out and hopefully we can do this again.
Only 10 more days until the next shopping trip. So far I've spent around 65 quid on groceries, just food including some flours, oils, butters, fresh potted herbs. I thought about not including those items in my total food bill since those things last a long time but I thought it was probably better to include them.
We did eat out once so that did cut into our food bill but I think it will be okay. Now that I have a few extra items I think I can buy some other types of food this time but it seems a bit hard to go shopping once a week. I think it makes more sense to have a food budget of 60 quid a month and go twice a month. But I like challenges and I'll try this time to last on 50 quid a month. 40 quid is a bit low and towards the end of the month we ran out of things like fruit so I'll allow myself a little bit more space to cook with and hopefully it will work out.
I'm still tweaking costs so hopefully I can find a good relatively low budget and stick to it. Still have one frozen chicken in the freezer along with some ground meats.
We'll keep you updated.
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