How do you shop for groceries?

[BudgetFoodie]

I probably shop twice a week as I don't like to run out of things.
I keep salad, veg, fruit, eggs, milk and cheese topped up and I always have a good supply of fish meat and veg in the freezer. I have well-stocked cupboards so there is always pasta, rice, herbs, flour, pulses, etc at hand.

I use a variety of shops, Aldi and Lidl are both close, I get free deliveries from Morrisons (DH is NHS), the in-laws pay for an Asda delivery pass for me to do their weekly shopping and I have the occasional delivery myself.
I'm not loyal to any one store.

Last week I went to Lild and picked up two great "no waste" fruit and veg boxes for £3.00 and lots of 30% off fresh meat, lean mince and chicken breast. Most of the meat went in the freezer but I made tandoori chicken and bolognese straight away - some was eaten and some was frozen.

I hate making one meal! If I make soup, casserole, curry, chilli etc I want a few portions for the freezer for days when I don't want to cook.
Today we are having pasta with a tomato and basil sauce I made (using tomatoes and basil in the veg box), topped with cheese, and served with a mixed salad. The rest of the sauce will be used for a pizza topping tomorrow.

I love a bargain and the challenge of using everything!
We have meat or fish most days but have reduced the quantity and now eat more pulses.

Our spending on all groceries (including toiletries and alcohol) for a family of 2 adults and two older teens averages £95 a week.

Wow, U seem really clued in on how to be a savvy shopper! All tips gratefully received.🤗🤗🤗

We meal plan and then place an online order with Tescos for delivery.

Pretty boring, once a week click and collect from a Tesco van as they’re the only supermarket available.

BudgetFoodie you are very impressively organised and are doing brilliantly feeding a family on less than £100 a week.

Here we are time poor but I do a sort-of meal plan. Which often goes awry when peoples’ plans change. 2 adults, 3 teens, a cat and 2 dogs all needing to be fed.

We get two Waitrose deliveries a week for all fresh and cupboard stuff, wine, toiletries, pet food, cleaning stuff. Normally one biggish delivery for the weekend, and a top up on Monday/Tuesdays. We get most of our meat from the local farm shop and I normally go down there on a Friday afternoon to stock up. We often buy ice cream and cheese from there too. And twice a week or so I’ll buy a fresh sourdough loaf from the deli. And some flowers from the little florist next door. There’s a great fishmonger in the village and we order a platter or nip in for mussels or fresh fish now and again.

A Tesco delivery each week and top up shops/treats from Waitrose/M&S when I pop to the shopping mall

I do online about once a week, particularly for bulk items like toilet paper and pet food, soda, wine (🤪) etc. I have a hello fresh delivery of three meals once a week. I hate going to the supermarket, but if I find myself parked near a Lidl I'll pop in for a few bakery items and cheap pet food, and they do have some decent stir fry type things you can just throw in a pan. My son is in a tight budget so will go round to two or three shops to get the cheapest or whatever's on sale. Limited to what he can carry though.
I too have plenty of pasta, oatmeal, pasta sauces, flour etc. If there was an apocalypse but still gas supply we could live on cupboard items for a week or so.

One big shop at Aldi on a Thursday, through the week I pass Aldi and Asda on the school run so nip in if I need to top up on anything. Quite boring

I go to Sainsbury's every day.

Tesco for 80% of shopping, 7am on Saturday morning.

Waitrose for decent bread and fish, while ds is swimming.

Occasionally, village butcher to buy (and freeze) meat.

I meal plan for the week on a Sunday and write a shopping list then do the weekly shop on a Monday after work and before picking up DDs from after school club. The weekly shop is at Aldi, or at Tesco if we need things that Aldi doesn't stock.

On a Saturday we quite often take DDs to the local park for a play and to all have a walk and right next to that is Waitrose. We'll often pop in as DH and I get the free coffee with our loyalty cards and will pick up some treats or anything extra we want for the weekend. So it averages out at one big shop and one top up shop a week.

If I see anything reduced that is able to be frozen, particularly meat I'll buy it and stash it in the freezer. We always make sure we have bread, milk, cheese, yoghurt, fruit, eggs, cereal, tins of beans, rice, passata, pasta and frozen veg in the house so we can easily make meals if we haven't had time to go to the supermarket. We could last a week without doing a food shop if we needed to and sometimes I've done that if we've had a tight month money wise.

We eat mainly vegetarian meals but cook meat around twice a week. We also have a couple of nights per week where we have very simple dinners like egg on toast, jacket potato with beans, soup and bread etc. This is mainly to keep costs down but also because we are busy with DDs clubs on some weeknights and I can be home and have egg on toast on the table for everyone in less than 10 mins.

I'm trying to cut out a lot of ultra processed foods. Not everything but the main UPFs we were eating frequently. The main difference it's made to our shopping is that I buy proper butter instead of spreadable stuff, certain brands of sourdough instead of standard sliced bread and plain greek yoghurt instead of flavoured ones. Cereal is either porridge oats or shredded wheat, which both have the advantage of being cheap.

We spend on average £100 a week on shopping for a family of four but that includes household stuff like loo roll, cleaning products etc and also keeping the freezer and cupboards well stocked.

I am very similar to you OP.
I have well stocked fridge ,freezer and pantry.
I only order shopping when the fresh stuff is running out...fruit,salad,carrots and cabbage...so a shopping order comes round about every 10 days.
I also make extra portions for the freezer so there are always lasagne,Cannalloni,pasta sauce,curry ,chillie and pies.

Trying to cut down re energy costs so if I need the oven on I will fill it with other things that can be frozen like jacket potatoes.
Also if I am using potatoes I peel them thickly and make wedges which are also ok from the freezer so no waste....also make soup once a week with anything past its best.

We also meal plan (just me and OH) so if he wants something oven cooked then I will too....I am vegetarian so meals vary

Once a week Tesco delivery. I only really ever do a full shop at Tesco and haven't shopped anywhere else except under duress for over a decade. I like knowing where things are if I go into the shop and exactly what brands/options to expect. I'm a creature of habit. Sometimes we do run to a local shop for a few missing items or top ups.

But we also grow a lot of our own food - huge veg garden which we're still eating from now (kale, other leafy greens, broccoli, swede, celeriac, garlic, leeks mainly in the winter, plus some pumpkins/squashes from freezer). We also have our own chickens for eggs and our own pigs for pork. We trade a bit of pork for lamb and venison for a bit of variety. We do buy some fish/meat, but try as much as possible to eat from the freezer. We only eat meat maybe 3-4 times a week though, if that. I meal plan all dinners, lunch for dh and I is just leftovers or whatever we find around the house, breakfast is a selection of pastries/toast/boiled eggs whatever anyone wants to make themselves on a given day.

We spend about £120 a week on our food shop, but a stupid amount of that is snacks for 2 primary age children, some of it processed foods like hula hoops, etc. but they also eat their body weight in fruit every week. 😂

Pretty much the same as you, OP, though in the US.

I also feel it's silly to cook only one meal at a time. I freeze leftovers after a few days - it's very handy to spend a week or ten days every few weeks eating the leftovers, with freshly boiled rice or pasta, or stuffed into empanadas I always have homemade tomato sauce for pizza, pasta, lasagna, etc.

I don't shop online at all, and usually shop in two or three different types of shops - Walmart, large supermarket, and Aldi. Where I go depends on what I need. I usually go once a week, maybe twice.

I don't buy much fresh fruit apart from bananas, apples, and clementines, though I do currently have a pineapple. I mainly buy frozen and either bake with it or use it in smoothies. I buy fresh veg.

Once a week online with Ocado with meal planning. Occasionally we might need to go get some more milk mid week. Meat comes from the butchers which we visit once a fortnight.

Also, I have a bread machine and bake my own bread.

Once a week I go to the greengrocers in town for veg and fruit, then to the wholefood shop for eggs and then to cheese shop for cheese. I do go to the local Tesco and buy tofu as I can't get the one I like anywhere else. I do a monthly supermarket shop for grains, oat milk etc to stock up.

I go to Aldi every 4 days or so. We meal plan so I get whatever we need for those meals plus the usual staples.

If we run out of anything in between (rare) then I pop to Waitrose as it's just round the corner, then invariably spend £50 on a bag of stuff that looked nice!