Well I have seen on here what people are spending on groceries and I just laugh....seriously though if our groceries are not $1000 or more a month then I am amazed. We only buy our meat from a local butcher (so much better) and yes we try to use farmers markets when we can, and yes my hubby and daughter drink A2 milk as it is better for hubby breathing issues and my daughters stomach..I dont drink milk and that alone is $6.90 per 2 litres (which I would convert but aust gallons are different to the US gallons), eggs are around $8 for 12, bread is around $4.20 plus for basic loaf...yes you can buy really cheap stuff but it tastes like cardboard and I'm not willing to go there yet....petrol (gas) prices have been the lowest the last month than they have been in awhile $1.60 per litre (sometimes drops into the 150's)...I honestly think our food is better for us for the most part but the cost is just unbeliavable these days....I am trying to spend no more than 300 per week on food starting next month and see how we go.....what do others think of the differencefood costs....also have to say that we don't do coupons over here and most CC don't have rewards on them and store cards really arent a thing...woolworths has one where when you get 2000 points you get $10 off your groceries...or you can store them up for christmas....so a little different here...what are your thoughts...yes we have a costco here but it is like a 45 minute drive one way and we rarely go like every 3-4 months and usually only to get cleaning stuff in bulk...our main stores here to shop at are woolworths, coles and aldi

We are finally settling into our new home and it is starting to feel like home now that things are being put away...still have lots to do but we will do it in our own time, we can live comfortably and just do a few boxes every couple of days so it's not so much. This house has less space than our last one, which they didn't renovate and they must not have had many takers as they have lowered their rent by $30pw...

Unfortunately with all the stress I think with the move etc our daughters IVF didn't work so she will try again and see how she goes...doing things a little different this time see if that helps

Finally had time to get the budget back on track, will take a little bit to be debt free but that is okay considering what we had to go through but we have a plan and I think our petrol (gas) will go down as we can walk so many places now.

Just need to start menu planning and getting the food budget under control again...way to much take out etc with the move, but it is warming up really fast here so will hopefully be doing a lot of BBq's

Well it's been a week since we moved and it has to be the worst move that I have ever been involved with (and there have been a few)...first we had everything organised and it should have been a smooth move. First the movers were 5 hours late..suppose to be there at 8am...almost 9 so I call the company and they called the movers they had truck (8 tonne)  trouble so should be there by 10....no show at 10 so I call again, they say the truck needs to go back to base and they should be there by 12...12.45pm they finally show up with 2 smaller trucks and there are 2 movers...at this point I am annoyed as I have had to constantly call them they never called me. They were the slowest packers ever, and they broke my daughters cupboard within the 1st half hour...theyhad half truck packed they were not listening to me when I told them to pack the heavy stuff and they started with boxes...I told them to finish the truck and that they could deliver to the new house and they were done...they also refused to park on the driveway as it has a small slope and wanted to charge me $200 to walk to the truck on the driveway!! so they go to the new house and my niece unpacked more than one of the workers and let me say it took them 5 hoours to pack/unpack a truck (small). I called their boss and gave them what for and gave them the worst review ever. So know we have to try and get family to help us finish packing up the truck (we had to hire one) and moving, it took us an hour and half to pack/unpack the truck. We finished up sat...I then stayed and cleaned the house. 

Of course before we move in and we get electricity put on in the home only to find out that the company had turned it off at the street as I guess they were really behind on their bills but there was elec coming to the house, so they sent someone out to check it out...and what do you know the previous tenants had rewired things in the electrical box and badly to get free elec...so they cut it off and we had no power untill the rewired the electrical box completely and then it had to be inspected and tehn turned on...we finally got power on wednesday night around 9pm...but things around the house still need to be fixed etc. We also lost around $150 worth of food as we bought it on friday when we had power.

On top of all of that my daughter had her ivf procedure on the sat that we moved...so the last week has been hectic and costly with the price of trucks, movers, paying family, takeout food etc.

the last couple days we have had rain so not much we can do so just resting up and hoping things start improving!!