How Best to Organise my Grocery shopping spend?

flea72

ive tried all the various shopping methods

monthly suits me best, as i can get it all out the way in one hit. But this means you need alot of storage space, and have to accept that come month end, your cupboards will be bare, and the kids/family will be moaning, espec where fruit is concerned as its usually all gone by week 3 (veg we grow our own so not so much of a problem)

Fortnightly, didnt work at all, i tended to find i was buying similar quantities to a monthly shop each time, but it was just getting eaten quicker, so ended up spending double

Weekly, similar to fortnightly, if things run out, they got replaced immediately, so my bills kept creeping up

Currently, shopping every few days. I take one bag with me, and if i cant carry it, i dont buy it. Cupboards look quite bare, but it also means ive not got dead stock on my shelves (the money is in the bank accrueing a measly interest), and it also means we dont run out of things. No more finding space for value packs of 24 bog rolls, a pack of 4 is quite sufficient

Monthly for our family of 5 i was spending about £150, shopping every few days im spending nearer £100

different things suit different people, perhaps you should spend the next 3m trying all the various options, and seeing what suits you best

Flea

Fire_Fox

cyclingyorkie wrote: »

do you manage this with a normal fridge freezer...or do you have a really large freezer? I only have a smallish fridge freezer.....I need to defrost it though cos it seems to be full of rubbish!

There are two of us sharing a stupid miniscule one person under-counter fridge, a separate under-counter freezer and four kitchen cupboards given over entirely to food. The freezer has one shelf that is all meat and fish, one that is oven chips/ bread/ veg, one that has frozen fruit and sometimes ice cream or desserts. Milk we keep in the fridge/ freezer but it could easily fit in the proper freezer if we didn't bother with desserts or ice cream.

Mine needs sorting again now, but I did defrost and clear out the freezer a few months ago and ate up all the odd bits of meat and veg that we'd accumulated. Do a storecupboard challenge on the Old Style board to use up anything that is just taking up space.

gingernutbizkit

some really great ideas here..... thanks guys and gals