We have had a few questions about the Cost of Living in Mackay compared to other town around Queensland. The income is higher in the Mackay area, and the Caravan Parks do cost more, but so far our food bill is almost the same as when we stayed on the Sunshine Coast.
Cost of Feeding Our Family In Mackay.
We shop at the IGA, Crazy Clarks and Woolworths all for different products. We also drive to our favorite Fruit n Veggie shop once a week as the have good quality fruit for good prices 🙂
Our Full Pantry! We dont actually have this much in our Cupboards at the moment as it is time for shopping!
Here is What We Buy in One Week:-
(feeding 4 Growing Hungry Boys and Two Adults!)
IGA Shopping Bill:-
Dates Pitted – $2.49
Oats Rolled $0.99
Sakata Rice Snack Plain $1.39 x 2
Perfect Cheese Parmesan Grated $2.89 x 2
Plain Crackers $1.09 x 2
Werthers Original Bag $3.15
Corn Cakes $1.69
Flour Self Raising $1.69
Berri Australian Grown Apple Pineapple 2L $2.99 (marked down on special)
Pastry Sheets $2.99
Cheese Block $8.99
Fetta Full Cream $3.47
Ricotta Full Cream $2.26
Butter $2.99
Mixed Veggies $1.74
Ski Yoghurt Mango $1.20 (marked Down on special)
Frozen Spinach $1.97
Milk Coconut Tin $1.31 x 4
Tin kidney Beans $0.99 x 2
Tin 3 Bean Mix $1.09 x 2
Tin Tomato Diced $0.79
Tuna Chunk Tin in Brine $1.15 x 2
 Coconut Cream $2.39
Fresh Thyme Leaves $2.79
Jar Salsa Dip Mild $1.99 x 2
Earth’s Choice washing Powder $5.99
Soap $2.99
Sard Wonder Stick $4.79
Popping Corn Bags $1.49 x 2
Sea Salt $4.65
Scotch Finger Biscuits $1.09
Corn Flakes $2.09
Sweet Potato 1Kg Bag $2.89
Potatoes 4kg $5.99
Pumpkin Grey $4.56
Helga Light Rye $3.49
Brown Bread $1.95
Cage Free eggs $4.39 x 2
Total from IGA = $123.24
Crazy Clarks Shopping Bill:-
Supreme Oxy Action (like nappy san) $2.99
Sandwich Bags $2.00
Mr Clean Silver Scrub 2 pack $2.00
Jam Raspberry $1.97
Ground Coffee Brazilian $3.97
Mixed Nuts $2.00 x 3
Total from Crazy Clarks = $18.93
Eating Healthy!I love eating Salmon and Salad when our boys are eating Fish n Chips 🙂
Shopping Bill:-
(Sorry but my docket got ruined with a drink spilt on it!)
Will add another docket here next week with all of the items listed.
We usually buy any cheap Fruit n Veggie, Cleaning Products (that IGA don’t sell) and any items that are on our list
Total From Woolworths $25.81
Veggies Unlimited In Mackay
Onions, Tomatoes, Pineapple, Celery, Kale, eggplant, Capsicum, bananas, Mushroms, Carrots, Avocados, Wombox, Lettuce, Cucumber, Grapes, Alfalfa Sprout, Apples, Avocado
Total $55.61
The rest of the week we are buying Bread, Lunches for David’s work (salad, breadrolls, cold meat, Spinach and Feta Triangles etc), Cream, Milk (still trying to find somewhere that stocks our milk and what ever we need. We don’t buy take-away because our boys can’t handle whats in the food!
Our food bill does not have meat – if we do buy any meat it will be chicken/fish. When we went shopping last week we didn’t make a menu up with any meat dishes.
Oh and another thing that we have found is working well – is setting out a weeks worth of Menu planning. Its cutting down on the number of times we have to dash back to the shops for something that we forgot to buy!
The Cost of Feeding our Family In Mackay – Total $223.59 – remember that we still have the bread etc during the week!
It’s about the same as buying down on the Sunshine Coast.
Is Our Mackay Shopping Bill About The Same Where You Are?
Cheers
Lisa
New Life on the Road.