Shopping-Monthly vs Weekly or daily (merged)

Fivenations

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Icemaiden

I also find it easier to shop on a monthly basis. I think the key thing as someone has already mentioned, is having enough storage/freezer space and time. I'm lucky with having two freezers and a seperate shelved pantry this isn't an issue. I tend to buy large of everything at the beginning of the month, big box washing powder, 24 pk toilet rolls, 5ltrs juice, tin of coffee, box of crisps, 25kgs sack of spuds, tray of eggs, you get my drift:D Milk from milkman:rolleyes: Meat from the farm shop/butcher & portioned up & frozen, fruit & veg from the market, I bake my own bread, cakes, biscuits when needed. I'm lucky to also have the time to do it.

kberry_78

Fivenations wrote:

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Thank you so very much. I've really become OS and this will help no ends. By the way how do convince family you are OS and not mean/cheap as my DH calls me now.

I'll check in for tips and post when I see if Monthly or weekly is best for us.


:T:TTake care all and thanks a million:T:T

thriftmonster

Icemaiden wrote:

I also find it easier to shop on a monthly basis. I think the key thing as someone has already mentioned, is having enough storage/freezer space and time. I'm lucky with having two freezers and a seperate shelved pantry this isn't an issue. I tend to buy large of everything at the beginning of the month, big box washing powder, 24 pk toilet rolls, 5ltrs juice, tin of coffee, box of crisps, 25kgs sack of spuds, tray of eggs, you get my drift:D Milk from milkman:rolleyes: Meat from the farm shop/butcher & portioned up & frozen, fruit & veg from the market, I bake my own bread, cakes, biscuits when needed. I'm lucky to also have the time to do it.

I too am lucky in having 2 freezers and a walk in pantry. I find I spend much less if I only shop online once a month - otherwise I'll go into Tesco for a few things and come out with a basket. I buy milk, fruit and veg locally as we need it - otherwise I go shopping in the larder or freezer. I'm still working on quantities but adjust next months list to take account of what is left. I also simplified the larder down to more basic foods that we always use and got rid of things like half a packet of cous cous that no-one was eating. Like Icemaiden I also bake all our bread, biscuits cakes etc

thriftlady_2

thriftmonster wrote:

I also simplified the larder down to more basic foods that we always use and got rid of things like half a packet of cous cous that no-one was eating.

I've done this recently. I had lots of half-finished bags of couscous, bulghar etc. Now there's just rice, pasta and spuds

I like to shop at the supermarket on Monday to replenish my dry stores, dairy stuff and get non-food items. Then I go on to the farmshop for fruit and veg.

I tend to shop at the butchers once every 3-4 months when I do a freezer order.

However, my mum likes to come over and shop at Waitrose, she always buys me a few thing too

Penny-Pincher!!

We tend to eat from the freezer and base meals around that. We buy main meat/fish/poultry items when they are yellow stickered and reduced by up to 90% then freeze them when we get home. Lucky that we have one huge chest freezer in the garage and an average one in the kitchen.

We probably go shopping once every 3 months for the above and grab fridge, fruit, veg weekly or when on offer. We used to buy our tinned items from Aldi once every few weeks but can often get Heinz beans very cheapily so grab those when on offer, the same with soup, tinned veg etc.

Bread is bought when vastly reduced and frozen as is the milk. We buy washing powder, fabric cinditioner, loo rolls, kitchen rolls, DW tablets, tea, coffee etc from Makro when they do their crazy deals.

Our weekly spend averages out between £30-£35 pw including everything. There is 3 of us.

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poppielia

Hi have been reading this thread with interest becuse am a single parent and as i dont drive i have to get taxis back from my local asdas with the food sghopping everyweek costing around £7.50 a week. Because of this i have now decided to do a huge monthly shop buying everything i can buy thats not perishable such as cat food/litter, toilets rolls, cleaning products, toiletries, bottles squash veg to freeze, pasta ect ect. the list is endless.
Then i will just pop into town once a week on the bus to pick up fruit, yougurts,milk and any other veg i cant or dont like to freeze. This will not only reduce the need for taxi fares everyweek so saving me money there but will also hopefully reduce my food /shopping budget too. Have decided to buy all my veg and fruit form the market too as we do go through huge mountains of mainly veg as we love our veggies and can then cut up, put into portions and freeze so will hopefully save me some money there too. For the huge monthly shop am going to ask my mum to take me and bring it all back in the car so i wont have to pay for a taxi that week too. (cheeky i know but am sure she wont mind just once a month.Will keep you all posted once i know how it is working out.

LJM

im starting to find it easier doing a weekly shop this way i can tie it in with my meal planner for the week and i dont run out of bits and end up spending extra on bits we dont need.i used to shop fortnightly but i was forever in and out getting milk/fruit/veg etc least weekly i can pick it all up in one go and its easier to keep track of my spending grocery budget

Cruiksl

Hello

This is probably something that's been covered before but looking for advice.

I'm looking at cutting down my shopping bill and thought it might be easier to do a monthly shop. We've got in a bit of a rut cooking wise and although we like to cook from scratch it seems we eat the same things.

My plan is to do a big shop after pay day at the local Mr T then a big shop at a brilliant butchers about 20 miles away. Seems wasteful going that far for meat but it's worth it.

Does anyone else do a monthly shop and if so - how do you do it ? Do you plan meals for the whole month ? I take it you just then buy milk, bread, fruit and fresh vegetables once a week ?

Any advice would be appreciated

Many thanks

Lynn

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Hi Lyn,

I shop weekly or sometimes fortnightly so I can't really help, but the replies on these older threads might give you some ideas of what others do:

Supermarket shop, weekly or monthly?

Does anyone do a monthly shop??

Last night I did my monthly shop.......

how much do you spend on your weekly/monthly shop?

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