Pay off mortgage and start having even more fun 😁

Jessy103

I'm also a list person 🤣 we have a chalkboard in our kitchen where we write down things we're out of or nearly out of that I would probably forget to buy if it wasn't written down (i then take a photo of it for when I'm shoppong) I also do a meal plan, so I know what food to buy and we won't waste anything. I might be a bit of weirdo 🤣

South_coast

Not weird at all, that's exactly what I do too! How do you know what you need to buy if you don't know what you're going to eat 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Greying_Pilgrim

I'm a list person, but still manage to forget items 😳

I've moved away from meal planning - I used to (pre child) try to do it for a month 😱 - not because it isn't a really good thing to do, but if I am lucky enough to get something YS'd or perhaps a green box from MrL, I'm finding it better to have a few 'known' recipes to rely on and I can chop/change what we have in response to the ingredients I have. I'm not very good at having the same thing several days on the run (my bad), but I find it helpful to have a few base recipes. I totally agree with planning to avoid food waste too Jessy. I'm far from perfect, and do occasionally waste things, but certainly try to keep it to a minimum.

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Jellytotts

When I write a list (and it’s not often now) I do it in aisle order….you can guarantee that’s the week they’ve changed the layout of the store.

Debsnewbudget

we use an app called Bring for our shopping list on our phones.

We can both add to it and then whoever is in the shop can pick items up without having to remember the physical paper list.

It works on apple and android and syncs between them .

We have even gone together, then split up and got half the items each as you can cross them off once in your basket, so if we each cover half the store we know whats left to pick up

My son uses google and shouts hey google add ***** to the shopping list. Then they can see when in the shop whats on the list on their phones

daisy_1571

Oooh thats very modern dnb, we do similar sometimes by tearing the line in half 😆 🤣 im a bit like jellytots and try to group things together, the dairy stuff, the bread type things, cans, frozen as yes you can guarantee they've moved aisle since last time!

Dxx

greent

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81941558#Comment_81941558

How can you know what you'll fancy in a week's time? I struggle sometimes to figure out what I fancy to eat the same night! 😆

I'm definitely a wing-it kinda person - but, even so, very, very rarely have food waste, as I'll mop up random bits into something else or use them up for lunch.

I sometimes write a list, sometimes not - but I never, ever stick to my list! 😯🙈 I am definitely seduced by offers and YS items 😁

daisy_1571

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81943137#Comment_81943137

But but but 🤯 perplexed by the way other people live their lives 🤔 you'll still need the things on your list ? Hard to use a ys joint of meat if you went in for a bottle of shampoo 🤔 😆 🤣 😂

When we were working we had a weekly list of meals. That was a game changer for us. Saved endless time at the end of a tiring day trying to think what to have, saved money as we would then be tempted by a takeaway, saved time in supermarket as we knew what we were looking for. After a while we knew what we liked and just could reuse earlier lists rather than think of it all again. I think most folk probably have a core set of meals they enjoy and have often? Plus we did occasionally go off piste just for the fun of it. As a friend used to say, having rules makes life easy, breaking the rules occasionally makes life fun 😉 😀

I'm afraid it wasn't a case of knowing what we would want to eat, that was what we were having, it had been taken out the freezer so was defrosed or it had been slow cooking all day so it was more or less ready. We were only going to put on the weeks list meals we liked so why wouldn't we want to eat it? (Plus only santa and your granny cares what you 'want' 😆) It was the not having a plan that made us f@nny about wondering what we wanted and invariably that meant a usually less than satisfactory when it arrived takeaway, list meant - home, cook, eat, job done ✔ 😀

Its just as well we aren't all the same, life would be very boring indeed 😁

greent

If I agree a meal with DH in the morning he often changes his mind in the day - if I've defrosted or prepped something he'll just eat something else anyway. We both grew up in very poor households and know that this partly what drives our overflowing food stores and we like to have choices. I, however, love leftovers, whereas DH will rarely touch them.

It would be very rare for us to run out of any non- food items (eg shampoo or cleaning products) as I often buy in multiples when I see a decent offer.

newgirly

Gosh its been busy here, more listers than non listers it seems 😆 I fall into both categories, lists at xmas or special occasions or when I’m feeling organised and happy, chaos the rest of the time 😂 I’m thinking that online deliveries may force me to be better organised again.

Lovely day today, saw Dil, went to the garden centre for coffee where she bought some herbs, then on to the aquatics place where she bought ds2 a couple of snails for their fish tank as an anniversary present 🤣 They have been married four years tomorrow, its gone so fast!