Menu Planning

saffronflowers

I plan our menus and price them all up for the month but it becomes very boring and tedious and often we miss out on offers - so is it better to menu plan for the week or for the month?

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beanielou

I think at the end of the day its just whatever works for you.
At the mo I am trying to move from weekly to fortnightly to see if that works better for me & if it doesent Ill be back to the drawing board.

crazy_chick_573

why not plan what you have while going round the supermarket that way it's easy to add up the cost and you don't miss out on the offers!

saffronflowers

I want to start using pigsback to earn the points - if we spend aprrox £200 a month that works out at a tenner a month to use for aunts and uncles for xmas.

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lynzpower

I tend to plan weekly, but buy reduced meat/ fish etc for the week AFTER.

So say IM wlking round Mr ts, Ive got my plan using last weeks bargains, so I buyt what I need to turn thse into meals, and then check the bagain corner for the week following. ( eg if I pick up chicken or pork chops etc, I plan with those for the following week) and so on.

I cnat plan fortnightly, we dont have a big ktchen & our fridge isnt big at all, and we struggle to buy weekly cos of this IYSWIM

Snaggles

I plan weekly, for the same reason - because I find it boring if I know 3 weeks in advance what I'm going to eat. But I quite often leave one day blank too, so we have a 'surprise' (ie, whatever was going cheap in Asda, something from the storecupboard, or if we're feeling a bit flush, a take-away).

I'm just about to go and do mine now - was supposed to do it yesterday but was too busy doing nothing!

mrsspendalot

I plan weekly, but we shop weekly as we get paid weekly.