Changing the way I shop..

wik

I am, as many others are really feeling the pinch when it comes to grocery shopping!

But just the other week a new homebargins shop has opened near here, being nosey I had a quick look, only to find so many branded items at low prices, I have now started popping in there with my shopping list on way out, and getting what I can there, We also have a cash & carry locally, that sells things just on the best before date, very handy for pet food etc..

Also I have got my DD in training!! She has taken to doing supermarket comparisons when she has finished her school work - she is home tutored and has a lot of time on her hands after that ends for the day..

Also with work it means that armed with the lists she makes, I can visit Mr T, Mr A or Mr M on different days depending on my work schedule..

And that means no extra fuel costs

wik x

Wolfhound

Gone are the days of the weekly food shop for us.
We only buy if its on offer, and have two litres of milk
for £1 and two loaves for £1.50 or £1. 70 from Iceland.
Mr W is in Poundworld each week looking for offers.
If you have a big family to feed, then it would be a
different matter.

plzhelpmesave!

Our local asian supermarket has 2 bottles of milk or bread for £1...it really does pay to shop around and buy from different places. I love home bargains...but always spend more than I meant to in there because things seem so cheap!

TravellingAbuela

Long gone with us are the days of a once weekly trip to Sainsbury's. Sainsbury's (or Asda) are now just visited for the things I can't get elsewhere. Basics are bought weekly at Aldi and I regularly I pop into Home Bargains, Fulton Foods, Farmfoods and Iceland for any bargains they may have. Meat I buy in bulk from the butchers. My store cupboards and freezers are jampacked but I just can't stop buying bargains when I see them! My DD, who lives nearby, thinks I am stocking up for a siege and, rather than pop to the shop for something she has run out of, she comes and raids my stocks!

Ken68

My best shop is the garden. And a determination not to overeat and to study the nutritional info on every food item bought.
But admit love a bargain.

gailey_2

We changed over the years

we have to do many places

butchers for meat
farmfoods for frozen
lidls for some groceries/fruit and veg
morrsions, sainsburys/co-op for everything else.

Also doine few online shops this year and used codes for money off.

cut out all the coupons often the free mags in supermarlets have coupons in.
collect some from local paper

we grow some veg

i always shop value, offer or reduced and learnt to be strict with myself.

Some say good to meal plan but i stopped doing it so far in advance I meal plan aroudn what bargains I find so

got reduced taco/faitta dinner kits
put in cupboard ready for when find reduced chicken/mince.
reduced chicken with on offer curry sauce.
reduced steak add frozen oven chips,peas.

I keep basics stock cubes, herbs, spices, tinned tomatoes, pasata, rice, pasta, flour, eggs ect,

we have big cheset freezer and rarly buy full priced veg.
rarly but ful price salad stuff either,.

we have a few poundshops but tehy in city centre so dont go often but when i do stock up on household products and toilitries/medicines ect.