budgeting - how?

[Funz]

EASON MAGPIES:

Funz:

Some days you might have to chinchye eat.

I also have expensive taste buds but some meals now I really learn to chinchye especially now new baby arrived.

Also can console myself good to eat cheaper veggies sometimes more healthy. My biggest weakness is SEAFOOD !!

I think our problem is cos we are not big on carbo. So we tend to fill up more with dishes. Seafood is my weakness too. And fish can be pretty expensive. Yah can go for the cheaper tomans or batangs but end up no one wants to eat them so wasted. So it's cod fish, kurau and greasy garoupa for the kids. But when I was tracking my grocery bills the surprising thing was my fruits bill takes up the bulk of my grocery bills most of the time. Who would think that fruits can add up to so much.

Tonight is gonna be chin chye eat. Teochew porridge.

[daddy2007]

EASON MAGPIES:

I also have expensive taste buds but some meals now I really learn to chinchye especially now new baby arrived.

Ha... similiar siutation. I used to be very picky about my food. But thing changed after my child arrived. Now will try to find food that is cheap and also to eat whatever my DD is eating

Looks like being a parent can really changed one's lifestyle & habit

[24hr-mum]

daddy2007:

EASON MAGPIES:

I also have expensive taste buds but some meals now I really learn to chinchye especially now new baby arrived.

Ha... similiar siutation. I used to be very picky about my food. But thing changed after my child arrived. Now will try to find food that is cheap and also to eat whatever my DD is eating

Looks like being a parent can really changed one's lifestyle & habit

u r right. in that sense, having kids 'perfect' our character, making us less picky, more self sacrificing, more budget conscious, more patience, move loving? hopefully. haha.

[sleepy]

daddy2007:

So no choice 1 person 1 bowl. The child can't finish then the adult will eat the remaining

That's how my dh acquires his expanding waistline :evil:

[sleepy]

24hr-mum:

if i go out wf kids, i nvr order wat i want. alwaz eat watever they left cos i eat anything but they dont. sigh....

Me too, they get to choose what they fancy. But I must eat first. After they dig dig dig (yucks!) I totally lost my appetite, so I always eat whatever they order first & they can have the leftover

[daddy2007]

24hr-mum:

u r right. in that sense, having kids 'perfect' our character, making us less picky, more self sacrificing, more budget conscious, more patience, move loving? hopefully. haha.

oh ya.... I also find that I am more patience now after 3+ yrs of training hahahahaha

[vicki]

24hr-mum:

if i go out wf kids, i nvr order wat i want. alwaz eat watever they left cos i eat anything but they dont. sigh....

Most times i have a 'sharing' concept, aka, order variety of food and get small bowls so that everyone eats everything... hence, in a sense, i dont eat left-over food + i still get to eat wat i want!! :celebrate:

[smurf]

It's crazy!! :x


http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/12/28/will-you-pay-17-for-a-bowl-of-laksa/

[Busymom]

Agree. Foodcourt prices are really crazy these days. Even at the airport foodcourt, one bak gu teh cost like $7-8!


The worst is probably the Food Republic.

[24hr-mum]

ya, $9 for laksa? may as well eat ajisen ramen the promo set only 6.80