Shopping and cooking for one (veggie)

moneysavingobsessive

I am a single vegetarian and currently spend approx £110 a month on my supermarket shopping. This is toast breakfast, sandwiches for lunch and an evening meal. Also includes the usual laundry things...

Is this a realistic spend? If not, does anyone have any tips to help lower it?

Pandora123_2

It depends what kinds of things you are buying now. If you're buying expensive things like prepared salads, ready meals & prepared foods (eg. veggie burgers, lunch slices, etc), there could be scope for savings by making your own veggie burgers for example, or cooking more dishes with beans & lentils rather than pre-packaged veggie cutlets, sausages, etc. Also if you have a freezer, that would make it easier to save ££, as you can for example make enough lasagne for six meals and freeze the leftovers thus having a cheap & healthy meal to pop in the oven or microwave when you're too tired to cook and tempted by takeaway or a readymeal!

On the other hand, if a large part of your budget is going towards organic fruit & veg, then that's something that might be difficult to see savings on, unless you are currently buying lots of out-of-season expensive stuff that maybe could be substituted with more locally-grown produce.

Where do you find the largest part of your grocery budget is going?

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