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meal planning - where am I going wrong?
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This may not be the right thread for posting this on. We are a family of five (2 adults, 3 kids- 2 eat nearly adult portions) and have a budget of £300 pm for food. This seems to be an average budget but I constantly go over it. At present I'm averaging £330pm.
Therefore a really simple questions: How do you actually do a meal plan?
I've never done one before, even before my DFW days. I shop online with Tesco usually once pm, but sometimes twice...I top up at Lidl/Aldi and Tesco...I buy offers and put them in the freezer....I cook large quantaties and put left over portions in the freezer (ping meals we call them LOL).
I really need to be coming in under budget on food as the overspend is coming from other budgets which given out debt situation are all tight!
Any help much appreciated?Working Hard to be Debt Free - one day :A soonDFW Long Hauler 74; Mortgage overpayments MFiT-2 challenger 100Total Nov07 £36000, Sep10 £1623:o:)0 -
WorkingHardDFW wrote: »Therefore a really simple questions: How do you actually do a meal plan?
Hi WorkingHard,
These threads might help:
Meal Planning - how do you do it?
Menu Planning Tips
If you are trying to get your grocery bill down it might be worth taking a look at the July 2008 Grocery Challenge too. The regulars who post on that thread are really helpful give each other lots of ideas on how to cut back.
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