How do you shop?

Upsidedown_Bear

ImDoingItForMe wrote: »

Hi Ilona, apart from i do eat meat, you sound the same sort of shopper as i am. I also buy a lot of YS products (although dont go at 8pm). Does your £15 per week include toiletries and cleaning products? Im trying to stick to a budget of £15 per week (theres only me) but ide like to include the occassional bottle of wine

This is Ilona's blog which will answer your questions

http://www.meanqueen-lifeaftermoney.blogspot.co.uk/

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Thanks Upsidedown Bear, i have read the blog before. I do buy yellow stickered bargains, but its not worth the drive to go out to the supermarkets at 8pm. Our supermarkets are a bit random with there reductions, sometimes a lot is knocked off, other times hardly any. So its always pot luck and not worth the miles of driving to only find theyve only knocked things down to half price or theres nothing left. I tend to go after work about 6pm.

Alphamare

We usually shop on the weekend and buy yellow stickered as much as we can. Currently meal planned all the way till next Friday.

Alphamare

Meal planning is done to keep costs down and we eat out of the freezer and store cupboards. We can often be flexible with meal plans and they are often done to use YS products or use up veg and fruit.

caz_cardiff87

me and OH have just altered the way we shop - used to do a monthly shop at asda with a couple smaller shops inbetween to top up but the last few times we’ve come out with 4 or 5 bags costing 80 odd quid and thats with offers we would use i.e. 3 for a tenner on meat, own brands etc... got fed up with it as the food wasn’t lasting us long enough. We probably averaged over 150 quid in the month for food.

Went to aldi and got our staples i.e. pasta, rice, bread, milk, eggs - whatever cheap meat they had going although we do stay away from the frozen processed stuff but things like whole chickens and mince are good value. Veg and fruit is way cheaper as are cleaning supplies! First shop we did there was 50 odd quid and we had twice as much stuff than asda.

If we get stuck on meat, cardiff market have some really good butchers and fruit and veg stalls and we usually get 3 packs of whatever meat for a fiver and they do a weeks worth of dinners if not a little more! I find buying veg loose is easier when there’s only two of you but we keep some frozen stuff for those cba i’m too tiered evenings lol

I don’t like buying loads of meat but we usually go for bumper packs of chicken thighs / wings, normally get a whole chicken and mince to do cottage pies / lasagne etc which are bulk cooked and frozen or eaten 3 days in a row :rotfl:

I budget separately for my lunch at work and normally pop out on a sunday and spend a fiver in aldi or lidl on soup, bread, ham or pasta sauces / pesto etc or whatever is on offer.

All i ever eat for breakfast is scrambled eggs on toast or porridge with a bit of fruit, OH never has breakfast and eats in work so we only buy what we need for evening meals. His nan cooks for us and his dad every wednesday and sometimes gives us a big tub of her amazing lamb stew which lasts another day or two. If she buys two of something no doubt we’ll get a pack of bacon of big chicken breasts to stick in the freezer!

I don’t have clubcards or anything as i found a lot of the vouchers weren’t really applicable... who needs 2 for 1 nappies when you have yet to experience child birth??

Normally go to boots for toiletries as they do some good 2 for 1 and bogof offers on shampoo / conditioner and what not although we were given a ton over christmas which has saved some cash... although i do wonder if people are trying to tell us something? :rotfl::rotfl: