As I said we went for a carvery meal yesterday, they serve on different size plates, £11.99 for super huge, £9.99 for large, £7.99 for a standard and £5.99 for a small plate.
These are the weekend prices, they are £1 cheaper midweek.
The family in front of us, mum, dad, 10 year old son and 4 year old daughter had two meals at £11.99, one at £9.99 and one at £5.99.
The mum was explaining that they always ate Sunday lunch there as it was cheaper than buying the food and cooking a roast dinner at home!
Really? She can't cook a roast dinner for four for almost £40!
Where does she shop??
Scrimping and saving, ranting and raving. Past retirement age.
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She didnt have lots of handbags did she?!
Someone doesn't understand leftovers. There's a lot you can do with a 2.2kg leg of lamb (currently £24 and change at Tesco) once you've fed four for Sunday dinner. You have cold with chips, shepherds pie and all sorts. If you add in bought roasties etc and don't think things through, then you are easily looking at £40 and a well fed cat.
I manage to feed both of us very well on £40 a week.
My whole grocery bill this week was less than that! Of course I'm only cooking for one.
Yikes. I don't understand that.
An illustration of the young not understanding how to cook. She probably genuinely believed what she said. It recalls when Weaver said on her blog once where she saw young Garrison wives buying ready made pancakes when a bag of flour and eggs and milk would have made them, and more, for half the price.
Snort! I know people like that and they eat out more often than just Sundays. And they will always be broke! There is no explaining the virtue of cooking at home, either!
I would rather have my savings account grow than my stomach
Joyce
I would say the single biggest saving I have made (other than divorcing a spendthrift loser) is taking my breakfast and lunch and drinks to work. I always have leftovers and prefer my own cooking anyway. About 10 years ago I would say the ex was spending about 25 pounds a day buying breakfast, lunch, coffee and so on at work (and he was always broke). As for younger people, I really think it's sad that cookery is no longer taught in school (or in many homes for that matter). My parents went through WWII and rationing and without actually showing us I think their frugality somehow just soaked into our skins. Not a bad skill to have in today's economy!
That really is rather sad when you stop and think about it.
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