indication of food prices

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May 19th 2010, 11:51 pm

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Re: indication of food prices

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Originally Posted by Chookie

Cookie - If you are buying in bulk for your residents (ie all the shopping at once), sometimes superstore does a deal where if you spend over a certain amount (think it is around $250 - easily done if you were shopping for 8 residents all at once) you get a huge box of frozen chicken breasts for free with the appropriate voucher... that is worth watching out for. Also, even if you/they have to shop separately, you can combine the receipts to get the freebie as long as they are all from the same day. Then they can split the box of chick breasts between them

They are 9 individuals, living in their own apartments around town so we don't really combine grocery shopping. They receive anywhere between 6-20 hrs support each a week, covered by 4 staff and we each support all 9. They also get a food top-up of up to $150 every three months so that is used to bulk buy specials and more expensive items like chicken.

They all work part-time so do have a little extra cash to buy luxury items or eat out but the main food budget throughout the organisation is $35 each unless they have special dietary needs eg diabetic or coeliac.