The Weekly Shop

Time and time again I hear families say that their weekly shop hits the £70 mark every single week. Ours, for a family of three is always under £50 including treats and not just bare essentials. Our bare essential shop is usually around £37 a month... How? It's really simple.

We choose each week to do our shop with Tesco, other supermarkets are available ;) but the reason is pretty simple... We do it online. When  shopping online there is a lower chance of impulse buying. Here is how the Weekly shop method works for us:

• Every month I do a meal planner. I very rarely deviate from it and that means I can shop in bulk and in advance for freezing. 
• Go online and type in Tesco Voucher Codes, loads will come up. See if you can use any. 
• Minced beef at Tesco (Edv) is around £3 for 700g. OK so it's not lean steak but come on, drain the fat out before continuing and it's gone... 
• Chicken, get frozen. £1kg of frozen chicken is £3.99 and will do 2 meals. 
• Unless it's on offer, I use frozen veg. Or we go to Tesco 24hr at 3am and get free cabbage and carrots ... That's right guys. Free. 
• I sit down on shopping day, I get my meal planner and I make a list of what I need for the week. If something is on offer for 2 for 1 I will check how many I need for the month and freeze it. 
• Everything we can possibly buy EV is EV. 
• EV washing powder. OK so it's not non bio but it is around £3.50 for 40 washes... But I will talk in another post of an EVEN CHEAPER way of doing your laundry so tune in guys... Soapnuts. 
• Tesco do £1 delivery slots. Choose that option. No matter what time of the day or night, it's a £1 so just get up at 6am if you need to.

Also, if you have the time and patience there is another cheaper way of doing your weekly shop. The my supermarket app. You can write a shopping list and they will tell you where each item is cheapest. Or where the entire list will be cheapest if you like. It's not that inconvenient to write three lists out and go to three different supermarkets if you are going to get your entire weekly shop for £30 is it?

Disclaimer: I am not in any way shape or form affiliated with Tesco. I just love their products. I buy these products myself and am not paid for featuring them. 

Any questions? Comments.  ;)