Your weekly shop

[natalieee]

Abit off topic but how much do you spend on your weekly shop.
We have a budget of £50 thats not including LOs nappies or Milk which i normally buy seperate. We hardly stick to it though!
Now LO is weaning and starting to eat more we are trying to be healthier and buy foods i can use to make her stuff..

I normally try and plan meals ahead of going shopping..

What do you do to save money?
What do you buy for your LO?
Any meal ideas or tips on a cheaper shop?

xx

 

[vintage67]

I was just commenting about this to my husband tonight!

That would be around 75.00 here. I spent 110.00 in two days and that did include baby supplies and I look in the cupboards and the fridge and I think, "Is that all there is?" Seems like a 100 dollars worth of groceries is NOTHING anymore.

 

[XJessicaX]

We spend upwards of £100. We do a 'big shop' and then we go out again during the week too for 'top ups'. Our big shop is always over £80 and then the smallest shopping trips tend to be around £30 each. If we do a splurge and bulk buy nappies and baby food/formula etc...then sometimes in one week we spend £200/£250.

To answer your questions:
What do you do to save money? I do look at deals, but generally just fling stuff in the basket without thinking.
What do you buy for your LO? Formula, clothes, nappies, food, music CDs, products
Any meal ideas or tips on a cheaper shop? eeeek, not sure! Not that organised!

 

[Mummytobe85]

WOW that what i was thinking too!!! i usually budget about £50 too a week and then a few days later everything is gone

For LO i try and buy alot of fresh veg and fruit and then cook them before they go off (not being mean but veg and fruit go off quite quickly and they are expensive too) i then freeze them in batches of containers. Since turning 6 months old its been abit easier as when i cook for DH and i, i usually do a separate meal for her without the salt and sugar!

For shopping i usually go Tesco and but their basic range and sometimes Lidl - if they have special offers like on milk, fruit, veg i buy in bulk to save abit - for other household items i.e bleach, antibacterial spray, sugar, dish clothes i go to the pound shop x

 

[natalieee]

then sometimes in one week we spend £200/£250.

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Wow thats lots =p
If my OH didnt have so much debt we could prob do this too lol

 

[Feathers]

We spend around £60 including nappies and milk. Nappies we buy pampers on amazon which works out cheaper. Milk from the supermarket and we do most of our shopping at Aldi which cut our bill in half. I make most meals fresh and their stuff is as good as the other supermarkets.

 

[natalieee]

yes im doing the same with fresh veg and cooking it! also trying to explore new things, cant believe id never had sweet potato and now i loveee it!!

 

[natalieee]

We spend around £60 including nappies and milk. Nappies we buy pampers on amazon which works out cheaper. Milk from the supermarket and we do most of our shopping at Aldi which cut our bill in half. I make most meals fresh and their stuff is as good as the other supermarkets.

We went to aldi once before Lo was born, but ots not a big one and i found they didnt have everything we needed =[ xx

 

[Mum2b_Claire]

We spend roughly £75 a week including bits picked up midweek. It's too much, we can't really afford it but I struggle to cut down much on that. We used to spend easily a £100 a week 2 yrs ago.

We find we spend less if we do an internet shop every 2 weeks and just top up with fresh stuff in between. Online you can see easily what the cheapest options are, I know I cba standing there checking in the shop but online it's easy to see, and also you see how much the shopping is adding up to. Fewer impulse purchases too, especially in bigger stores where kitchen / home ware / clothing / toys often used to make their way into my trolley!

We also meal plan and try to do meals with things that are on offer.

What do we buy for Ruby now: just organix snacky things really, like smoothie pouches and dried fruit bars. Probably spend about £5 a week on those. She's out of nappies and drinks the same milk as us now. No2 won't need anything bought in the supermarket for a while as she will be BF and in cloth nappies.

 

[XJessicaX]

But we REALLY bulk buy! I find I cannot just 'pop to the shops to buy 1 item' so buying 6 formula tins or 300 napies it actually saves me money because if I were to go and buy each tin or nappy box separately I would end up browsing the isles and spending unnecessary money lol. Will power is a bit shit.

 

[vintage67]

But we REALLY bulk buy! I find I cannot just 'pop to the shops to buy 1 item' so buying 6 formula tins or 300 napies it actually saves me money because if I were to go and buy each tin or nappy box separately I would end up browsing the isles and spending unnecessary money lol. Will power is a bit shit.

Yep. Coming out of the store with more than I intended to is a problem.
Even with a list in my hand I can get distracted. I know it won't go to waste but it throws the budget off as then I'm short for other bills.

 

[natalieee]

I agree with the online shop!! We've done that a few times and spent less! I think we started going shopping again because Tesco built a new store xx

 

[stepmum]

I find shopping online is a godsend..you can see all the offers and things without trawling the aisles. We spend about £120 a week on an Asda shop and we spend about £30 a week on top up stuff from the local town.

For LO I buy nappies, wipes, formula, food and I usually bulk buy all of this once every month..I get like 6 tins of formula, 12 packs of wipes, loads of food, 2 boxes of nappies (anything else I can sneak in toys, clothes i.e things he doesn't need more of ) When I'm running low on one thing I just do another bulk buy.

Though this way has worked a tiny bit to my detriment as I ended up with nappies that didn't fit him anymore so had to bin them and he's still eating 4-6 month purees (got loads!) even though he's well accustomed to lumps and textures.

 

[Juicybaby88]

I budget roughly 50 a week without Los things but I always go over..I do go aldi etc for fruit/veg as its cheaper! Goin to make a meal plan though & stick to it as we need to be more careful with money! Goin to do more baking aswell so don't buy expensive goodies in x

 

[Gemie]

We spend upwards of £100. We do a 'big shop' and then we go out again during the week too for 'top ups'. Our big shop is always over £80 and then the smallest shopping trips tend to be around £30 each. If we do a splurge and bulk buy nappies and baby food/formula etc...then sometimes in one week we spend £200/£250.

To answer your questions:
What do you do to save money? I do look at deals, but generally just fling stuff in the basket without thinking.
What do you buy for your LO? Formula, clothes, nappies, food, music CDs, products
Any meal ideas or tips on a cheaper shop? eeeek, not sure! Not that organised!

^^ I could have written this myself so you saved my typing fingers Jessica! xx

 

[little_lady]

Abit off topic but how much do you spend on your weekly shop.
We have a budget of £50 thats not including LOs nappies or Milk which i normally buy seperate. We hardly stick to it though!
Now LO is weaning and starting to eat more we are trying to be healthier and buy foods i can use to make her stuff..

I normally try and plan meals ahead of going shopping..

What do you do to save money?
What do you buy for your LO?
Any meal ideas or tips on a cheaper shop?

xx

My budget is £50 a week for three of us including nappies and baby food, but I can get it down to £35 if I try. If you go to Aldis, you will find your weekly shop is dramatically reduced!!! Also I always buy what's on offer, if it's over-ripe or whatever then I stick in a soup or something

 

[Fascination]

We don't have a budget atm. I'd be useless anyway! I go in for 1 or 2 things and somehow come out with 3 shopping bags :/ I'm too easily tempted by offers because I think it's a good deal but the reality is that I spend far more than intended every time I go. My OH is much better at this sort of thing because he barely deviates from the list when he goes alone. We can't really justify online shopping because Asda is a 30 second walk ;p I might start using MySupermarket to compare deals on cupboard fillers because once LO is weaning, all our fruit and veg will be organic and bought from little farm shops and meat will be from the butchers, so that will make it quite costly.

LO gets clothes, nappies, toys, bits and pieces. Admittedly, she doesn't need most of what she's bought but I really couldn't compromise with her stuff! X

 

[RebeccaG]

Have heard online shopping is the way to go! I am terrible shopping - always chuck stuff in!
We have every supermarket near us as well so plenty of choice! Thing I worry about with online shopping is getting bruised and battered fruit and veg - do you find this happens?

 

[kaths101]

Before LO I used to be a terrible shopper just used to fling stuff in and it would easily come to £100, now though I HAVE to stick to £50 a week as what has happened this month will happen again - I spent too much the first 2 weeks and now we have no money for the next 2 weeks - LO is ok he has milk and nappies (Grandparents buy them) but we are now skint and living off eggs, bread, beans and cheese

I think I might try internet shopping next month as I just have no will power at all!!

 

[KatieB]

We spend upwards of £100. We do a 'big shop' and then we go out again during the week too for 'top ups'. Our big shop is always over £80 and then the smallest shopping trips tend to be around £30 each. If we do a splurge and bulk buy nappies and baby food/formula etc...then sometimes in one week we spend £200/£250.

To answer your questions:
What do you do to save money? I do look at deals, but generally just fling stuff in the basket without thinking.
What do you buy for your LO? Formula, clothes, nappies, food, music CDs, products
Any meal ideas or tips on a cheaper shop? eeeek, not sure! Not that organised!

^^ I could have written this myself so you saved my typing fingers Jessica! xx

^^ Me too, am always throwing nice things in to "try" We spend roughly this, can't think about how much we'd spend if there was more than the three of us, oh well.