Only 5 more days to go

So we made it another week on our crazy budget for food. I do have to confess that I did go shopping again because we have a friend staying with us and I can very well have him starve and think that we are nuts with nothing in the fridge.

I also found this really cool app called shopitize that gives you cash back on items that you buy from tesco, asda, morrison and the like.  For example one of the things that you could buy was milk and you would get a whole quid back.  Which basically means that the milk I bought was free.  I also stumbled upon a store called iceland.
Everything in there is basically frozen and very cheap. I haven't bought a lot of ice cream so I decided to buy jonas some ice cream since he loves it and it was only .89 pence.
Iceland had some really good discounts so I decided to buy a few things from Iceland to cook for this week for our extra guest.
I did go to tesco to buy a few things such as fresh veggies.  It was painful to buy those items considering how much cheaper they are at Aldi. I will try with all my might to not shop at tesco as long as there isn't a good discount such as the milk.
My neighbor and I will be going to Aldi again to use our awesome 5 quid off vouchers! I was so happy to see that Aldi was doing that again and it saves us a good amount in the long run.  At the end of this month I'll take a picture of our fridge and cupboards to show you how scare things have become.  It really looks like we have no food.
Tomorrow I'm making spaghetti and meatballs and this last weekend I made a beef stroganoff. Jonas loves this dish and I had to use the sour cream I bought the 1st of October.
My grocery bill including the food I bought for this week to account for the extra guest comes to 88 quid.  That's roughly 22 quid a month which was my estimate.  If it was just for Jonas and I, I think I could have kept it at around 65 quid.  I also learned from a few of my mistakes from before of things that I can buy that last for a long time and things that I shouldn't buy.  I also do allow myself certain luxury items such as chips and dips but in the next shopping drip I'll have to control myself.

In the home stretch! What a crazy experiment. Next month I'll be working with a 65 quid budget but breaking that up into two shopping trips.  So on this next shopping trip with my neighbor my goal is to buy only 40 quid worth of items. These items will feature a lot of frozen items, some fresh and lots of root type of vegetables.  I'll buy a few more things of flour as I'll be making lots of bread as well.