Today I Saved

We have four kids (thank you, we do have a television) with two of them under the age of 1. The twins aren’t eating our meals yet so we were faced with forking out large sums for jars of food or making our own. Given the cost of baby food, and double that at each meal, it was a simple choice.

We now buy a pile of veggies at the market each weekend; the good ones to get for this are the cheaper rejects out the front, it’s going in to ‘mush’ that day so it doesn’t matter. Then it’s simply a matter of chopping them up in to similar sized bits, throw them in the steamer until they are soft and then mush them up. For $7 this week we got a weeks worth of evening meals for the twins. In comparison to two jars each at about $1.50 a jar that’s a saving of around $14.00 a week. Add to that the food being healthier and the joy of cooking for your children it’s a great thing to do.

Hi

I’m Tony and I’m starting this blog to keep track of ways we are saving money. I’m hoping that by writing down how we are trying to save will help with motivation to keep saving and finding new ways to save. Not that we need much motivation : six mouths to feed and rent and mortgage to pay should be sufficient motivation enough.

Why are we renthing and paying mortgage? We’re building our first family home and the progress payments have just started kicking in so for the next six to eight months we’ll be paying rent and increasing amounts of mortgage. Ouch.

Why do we have six mouths to feed (not including cats)? Well, it was just going to be five but unexpected twins made it six.