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WHEN WE WERE kids, the weekly shop was a bit of an institution.
It was the height of excitement to be brought along – oh, the power you thought you’d have, picking groceries for the week. Why would you buy anything other than biscuits, you’d ask? Why?
Now, as an adult you (probably) know better and probably face this dilemma – do you do a big shop in one go, and run the risk of food going off in the press or fridge?
Or, do you shop day by day, or every couple of days, as this fancy strikes? The problem with this method is it seems to work out a little bit more expensive overall. Especially when you just popped in to the shop to grab a bag of carrots and ended up with fifteen other things you ‘really (really) needed’.
Now, the times they are a-changing. There are many ways to shop. Supermarket, grocer, local, organic – if you want it, you can find it. You can even shop online from the comfort of your own sofa and get your food delivered to you whenever it suits.
Are you a list-maker, are you an old-fashioned pen and paper type, or do you embrace the technology available using some of the online meal and grocery planners? We’ve rounded up a couple for you to try.
From your very basic – just write a list, you can use any note-taking function on your phone. Or, you could get Evernote, which gives you more, so much more – as they explain in a blog post here.
Next, we move onto something a little fancier with the MenuPlanner, whose real stroke of genius is letting you keep track of what you have in your cupboards as well as helping you import your favourite recipes and coordinate your shopping list.
But not at Super Value because it’s crazy prices in relation to some products. I’m my hometown ppl go to Aldi first then to Super Valu to pick up what they couldn’t in the first shop.
We stick to the list, that way we can manage the budget and know how much we spend week to week and see how prices vary. Tubs of ice-cream in Tesco tend to change price according to the weather, up when the weather is good and down when it is cold and wet.
Yes but not in super value. A trolley of shopping in lidl costs the same as a bag in super value!
And tesco!
Once a month I do a shop of frozen foods and canned and packet goods. Then its every 3 or so days for everything else. Though with random working hours my once monthly shop usually lasts me 6 weeks. I seem to be saving money this way better
Do a big shop payday den pick up bits as needed. Will only buy meat by the day as I use from the butchers…
A new way of doing market research eh? Slip the journal a few quid for a pseudo article with a poll attached.
I find the SV own brand is actually really good quality and indistinguishable from the branded products. Ironically I shop at Lidl for luxury products, a lot of their ‘Lidl’ brands are rubbish.
Got a mailshot..lovingly shot..well laid out..where super valu match aldi/lidl on a whole range of goods..why match them?shouldnt you be beating their prices?
Its all Fg&enda kennys fault !
Freshly clicked is the way forward…
Can’t afford a weekly shop…
Not all options available in this poll.
I do a monthly shop. Freeze a lot. Cook în bulk alot. Once a week pick up some fresh produce.
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Any better headlines than this rubbish question did not vote and don’t intend to
Awww Alan.
Not FF or ‘no’ then?
Of course that goes without saying. …?
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when I was growing up the weekly shop usually occured on a pay day of some sort. Since I get paid monthly I no longer run out of money and food on Wednesday. Some things last a month, they are bought monthly. Some things last a week and are bought weekly and so on. Yeah, definitely not at Supervalu though. I did try, but always end up having to go to Tesco for the stuff I couln’t get. So rather than visit 2 shops, I go to Tesco. It wins.
Every 6 weeks do a big shop. Fridge and freezer does be bursting.
You have to top it off during the week, everyone runs out of the perishable goods.. bread, milk etc.
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