What Does Your Food Shop Look Like

We have a meal plan. Not necessarily in terms of what is eaten on what day but what meals we will eat that week and then dates dictate what day we have it. I buy reduced items whenever I can and I freeze them. I buy chicken thighs as cheaper then breasts and debone them. Use lentils to bulk out mince so you get more meals out of it. We've stopped buying certain things as they are too expensive. I take advantage of my 10% off in Lidl and stock up on items then.

I’ve stopped paying for the label with some things. Like baked beans. I buy the supermarket own brand rather than Heinz. Same with tomato ketchup, porridge oats, biscuits, bread, pasta etc. They taste the same to me, so why pay more…

I still buy Heinz mayo as it does have a unique taste and I love it.

When there is an offer on a product that you can freeze, I buy extra and put them in the freezer.

Alternate what you buy according to what is on offer. Today we bought 5 packs of biscuits at £1, each which are usually priced £2.75 or more for example. Downshift brands. Check the reduced yellow sticker section.

I have not noticed my food bill go up by much. I will stop buying a product if I see a price increase and look for alternatives. We never have any food waste. I always look for special offers but only if it’s a product I know I am going to use. We mainly shop in Waitrose. If you go to Waitrose late on a Sunday the fresh fish gets massively reduced.

I buy a whole chicken and roast and use the left overs. We make things like chicken pies

For starters, I would write down what food is being thrown away weekly and reduce buying them

I shop late to get the items that are reduced and then rustle up what I can. It’s easy when you don’t mind eating spontaneously

I tend to order online and get it delivered. That has stopped my impulse buying offers like 2 for 1.

Massive sugar cravings at the moment tho determined to be better this week

I meal plan but honestly the prices have things have gone through the roof, I feel like I'm always rotating the same meals just to keep the cost down and its no fun! I have done the £13 Guosto box through martin lewis for this week though just to mix it up and thats definitely cheaper than our weekly shop.

We tend to do a light weekly meal plan to work around but trying to keep costs down is getting impossible, we don't have any food go to waste in ln our house.

School holidays we live out of the freezer and term time I stock up on food for freezer usually reduced meat that I freeze. I don't buy things like frozen chips

I try to shop every two weeks. Always online I think online is a godsend so much easier

I have a store cupboard shop once a month after that it's yellow stickers or bulk buy chicken which is then weighed into portion size before freezing. If it's freezable I buy as many yellow stickers that I can. We never have any leftovers or waste.

Foodbank twice a week and olio weekly when its local to me on foot.