I understand that ingredients costs for confinement meals are not included in the price for CL but they'll cook. do you remember how much you spent on ingredients? Looking to do my budgeting now.

I bought my herbs beforehand which included red dates, tonics and sesame oil; came up to be about $300. Also bought alcohol which was about $200. The weekly groceries for meat, ribs and vegetables was about $150 a week. My confinement lady cooks a fair bit for me and she finishes my leftovers.