which way do you find

elly2

is easier to do the shopping? weekly or monthly i am doing fab with my budget but think that is only because i had lots of stuff in before i started my £200 budget cereal, flour , sugar ,pasta,rice etc etc now i am coming to the end of my store cupboard suplies and am panicking on how to replace them do i use so much of the budget and do one big shop say £100 and then use the other £100 devided throughout the 4 weeks help which way works best. i also need some money for my trip to the meat van(he is a godsend and so cheap i cant justify buying meat from the supermarket anymore) and am hoping to have at least £40 to spend which will get quite a lot. i have a weeks suply of nappies( lo is not night trained yet) so will need to get some more as well.

hornetgirl

I definitely find weekly easier. I find it keeps me more disciplined and less likely to splurge. It also means we tend to eat more fresh stuff as I buy more often - not essential I know, but a personal preference for me.

flea72

i used to shop monthly, but just found it to be too mamoth a task, so now i shop fortnightly. i find it works better than monthly, because it means i dont go from overflowing cupboards, to end of the month, scrapings

i find weekly just too often, as i find im not rotating stock quick enough, and keep eating the fresh stuff, and forgetting about things at the back of the cupboard

with a fortnightly shop, im obviously somewhere in the middle. But im lucky in that i have a really good butcher and veg shop on the school run, so i tend to pop in and buy those things, as and when needed. prob every 4/5 days

i do my shop online though, so dont know if it makes a difference if i actually went to the shop and did it in person - i spend £50 tops every fortnight at the supermarket.

hth flea

lil_me

I've stopped doing weekly or monthly shops, just do it when I need to now usually works out about fortnightly, I used to go every Friday and ended up buying lots I don't need just because it was shopping day. Monthly shop I ended up spending way OTT as I'd buy loads then do little top up shops. When stocks run very low of things I like to keep in like tinned tomatoes etc I stock back up. Some weeks I just buy fruit and veg which usually gets delivered, especially at the minute as I'm trying to run the freezers down. For me what usually works is meal plan, try to get as many days as possible out of what is in without shopping at all, then work out when I need to go shopping and what for.

Debt_Free_Chick

Supermarket (Lidl) every 3 or 4 months - stock up on dry goods, tins, cleaning etc.

Weekly at butcher and farm shop.

Milk delivered.

Less temptation

Angel1980_2

Hi

Netto every 2-3 weeks

Meat & veg once a week

Milk and bread whenever needed