Weekly Shopping??

Bambywamby

With Asda online if they have to substitute an item and the substitute costs more than your original item, you still only pay the original price.

Ishtar

Shortie wrote: »

Hi Smitty2702 :wave:

I used to do a big monthly shop and fill in on fresh bits as needed. However we found that this was a really bad idea for us, as we get bored of food quite quickly and by mid-month what we'd bought, we no longer wanted, so our 'top up' shops ended up being a proper food shop!

Snap! We used to be really good at doing the monthly shop, then a £10-£20 top up for veggies and wine....not sure what happened, but after a few years this became a £50 weekly shop on top of the almost £200 monthly one :eek:

When I gave up work to have a baby, I decided that with all this 'spare' time on my hands I could start shopping weekly. It's between £50-£60 per week, but that's it, if I've forgotten anything, then it generally has to wait (I begrudge going into the supermarket again). I menu plan and write a list based on this - and I tend to go at the times when the 'reduced' shelf is being stocked!

In addition I have organic vegetables delivered, so I don't have to dither in the supermarket - I think that the longer you are in there, the more time the psychology of the shop has to work on you.

I haven't got round to using the market for fruit and vegetables yet - I have so many other things on the go at the moment that I don't seem to get there in time....something to work on. Oh yes, and the only butcher in town seems to be a 'craft' butcher where everything is at a more inflated price - £4.95 for a pound of sausages, anyone!!!

D.

(They're nice sausages, but definitely not money saving!)

Sharra

re the Asda substitutes - they are great! They had tuna chunks at 19p (Princes I think or some other brand name). Anyway - I ordered 14 cans, they had to substitute John West Tuna Steaks - should have been 87p a tin but I got them for 19p!

lil_me

I used to get deliveries when I used supermarkets more from ASDA. A mixed bag here some substitues were of less value, some more, sometimes they didn't send one like the bread example. I think depends which picker you get. It is a good way to reduce impulse buying.