Hiya,
wasnt criticising, I have 4 non dieters here too and one of those is a veggie who eats seperate meals.
I just have to think out of the box...
For instance, today I cooked and there was an extra portion, so it went into the freezer. Eventually we end up with 4 seperate portions of dinner, mixed variety...
That day everyone gets to choose what they want and they have something different.
If your hubby is taking the spare chop for his lunch or whatever, then he is saving money on his lunch that day?
Over the past three months I have had to juggle money seriously, So every week I do a menu... I only buy whats on the menu, I no longer buy cake for the children, instead we bake it at a greatly reduced cost. I don't buy crisps anymore for break times as they were beginning to have a few packs a day... we do homemade healthy flapjacks and they take that for break instead.
I also don't buy any processed food anymore, as it was just too expensive and rubbish anyway, so we make everything now from fresh.
Our shopping bill has diminshed greatly.
Maybe you could look at the whole families meals as a whole instead of thinking I will buy the same as always and then have to buy CD on top?
It's worked for us... But I do understand it might not work for everyone.
Thing is, I decided that as a mum I had always made sacrifices and in the the big picture I will only be on cd for a short time, so yes everyone can help out...
They might not always get there favourite dinners, but they do get really good quality, homecooked and healthy food which they do enjoy! Also when I look at how I became over weight, it wasn't by eating 'normal' amounts of 'normal' everyday food, it was by eating processed foods and takeaways each day, now they have been cut out of the diet, The cost of those takeaways (that was never included in my grocery bill before) has gone.
I do hope you find away around it though, like you say in your other post, you hate the thought of leaving CD so it would be great if someone could come up with some ideas for you...
Just out of interest... a story that made me smile re the cost of CD.... A friend was asking me about the cost of CD and was shocked when I told her, she said how expensive it was.
The day before however, she had been telling me about the subsidized food in her compaby resteraunt. She spends £1.80 on a sandwich, she has a bag of crisps and a cake, the total comes to 'just' £2.50 she told me! (the general conversation was how reasonable it was to eat at work) So I asked her how she could spend 'just £2.50 on her lunch and manage to eat the rest of the day for under £3.50 (which would be the daily amount for CD roughly) she said.... "well that doesn't count because we have cereal and bread in the house anyway for breakfast so i don't need to count the cost for that, and I am making dinner for hubby and son then mine won't cost anymore... "
WHilst I agree that a meal might not cost a third less to remove a third person, it does however cut the bill and as for cereal and bread etc... if she wasn't eating it, it would last longer so she was just not counting the cost of her eating at all....
I reckon she actually spends about £10 on food a day, because she always has a mars or other choc bar in the day, plus a glass or two of wine in the evening on top of her food...
She would be saving money but she just doesn't see it!
xx