What the world eats

[farzooks]

These are pretty old pictures - more than five years old, at a guess.

[farzooks]

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[ChillerVapes]

I also dont buy a lot of that junk.
No chocolate no fizzy drinks.
I buy fresh fish, fresh meat, veg, fresh pasta, 3 loafs of bread and plenty of sandwich fillers.
I do the shopping. I shop for offers (or hidden better value items)
And only buy what I need for meals for the week and what ever consumables we are running low on.

I can get a weeks shop for a family of 3 under £70 sometimes under £50 if we as skint.

[lfcpops]

Family of 3 and we average £40 a week - Aldi, Lidl, and local greengrocers. It's just a case of reducing your waste, and the best way is simply to buy less.

Thats my two penneth anyway!

[Super-Shiny]

My money saving is this:

Create a menu for 28 dinners (one for each day of the month) and shop online like Asda etc, pick your products for each dinner and then add essentials like washing up powder etc then checkout.

Saves you queuing up and trolley bashing and stops you picking up things you don't need and saves on petrol doing it online or doing it once a month.

Gonna need a large freezer though to store a months worth, also when storing put the dinners away starting from the bottom of the menu, that way you won't have to dig around your freezer to find the dinner for that day

EDIT: Forgot to add, when your kids ask "What's for dinner" you can say "Look at the menu"

[Blownupdolly]

Apr 30, 2013 7:55:06 GMT lfcpops said:

Family of 3 and we average £40 a week - Aldi, Lidl, and local greengrocers. It's just a case of reducing your waste, and the best way is simply to buy less.

Thats my two penneth anyway!

I agree about not wasting and buying less, but the problem for us is that now theres just the two of us ( unless the grandkids with bottomless bellies descend) we find that on some items or ranges of food they cater for larger families but not those of us that just need one or two of something. I now avoid these things as it always seems to end up in the bin. To be fair this issue has improved a lot in the last couple of years. We dont eat eggs much and used to end up throwing some out as you can only buy 6 at a time. Luckily we live near a lot of farms. Recently Mr Dolly wanted to try duck and goose eggs. Buying from the farm shop he was allowed to buy one of each.

[collie2011]

We use aldi and the markets a lot. Markets usually have deals on meat and you can stock the freezer up. Aldi for fruit and veg and we use Home bargains for cleaning products, loo roll etc. I don't buy much from Asda any more at all, even though we get a 10% discount with the Mr working there it still works out cheaper to do most of it elsewhere.