Our food budget is our biggest concern and I am now slightly worried about the responses for this one as I have just seen this connected to a response from one of my other posts. Our Food Budget – or should I say Food, plus Household Products (bleach, washing up power, bubble bath, toilet roll etc), plus Toiletries and not forgetting Cat Food which is of course a subject in it’s own right and not to mention the things like birthday cards (I am from a family of 8!) and other stuff you take for granted. I know it depends on your individual circumstances, but I wanted people’s opinions of what would be acceptable for x2 adults and x3 cats (with special dietary requirements!). The current budget is £320.00 which I note that one of the experts has said that £300.00 should be sufficient for x2 adults - but we are struggling. Perhaps if all our other 'requests' were accepted then we wouldn't struggle so much. I try to buy the cheapest of foods and products but we always run out and are starving by pay day!
Petrol
Well after reading my other comments, you might wonder how over £250.00’s worth of things are supposed to come out of a £50.00 miscellaneous budget – well the answer is the Petrol budget – yes our IP increased our Petrol budget to make up for some of these costs. The problem is, our petrol bill doubled due to my partner’s job and will increase again dramatically early next year when my place of work moves 50 miles – so how can we ask for this to be increased when it will in fact be accurate! We did make this very clear at the time of putting the proposal together and was told not to worry!
Thanks, and you will be pleased to know that's my last main query!
Thanks, Sully
