Re-prioritise I need help to change my supermarket budget for next year.

Towser

Over the year I have reduced the food bill to £505 per monthfor our family of four. I am doing it slowly but surely as one poster recommended. This is really good for us as it usually includes a takeaway once a week.

To reduce it for next year I intend to do the following:

Cut out biscuits, sweets, puddings and crisps. I have lost4KG this year hope to loose more next year. After all your advice:

I'd
cut anything processed, all the junk and alcohol, cook from scratch even
biscuits etc - would improve health as well as cost.

Buy cheaper cuts of meat.

I am not giving up chocolate or alcohol yet. Maybe cut down. I have been having home made shandy instead of glasses of wine.

Shop online with mysupermarket.com with ASDA because it thepaper it said “Asdapromises £1bn in price cuts to stop shoppers deserting to Aldi and Lidl” Iprefer to shop online then I can stick to a budget.
Has anybody seen any evidence of this yet especially using mysupermarket.com?

Towser

Well from my last post nothing much changed apart from switching to Aldi.

All my good plans above just were scrapped.

So now I buy everything from Aldi shopping the way I usually do if Aldi doesn't have anything I don't buy it - simple. So have to make alot of things from scratch.

This last years saving on food alone by switching supermarket was £950 yes really.

For this year the only thing I have changed is not to buy alcohol as I am still trying to loose weight and still sticking with Aldi as I can and do buy everything from Aldi.