What day do you normally do your grocery shopping and why?

[Donthideyourlight]

Just interested - I am a terrible housekeeper / meal planner.

I normally shop on a Wednesday as that's my least busy day. Wondering if I'm missing a trick by not doing a 'better' day. I could theoretically do any day if it was a delivery or click and collect

Yes jade, I'd definitely go with a Tuesday if I was retired! I think I ended up in a shop one random Tuesday for stuff for work and it was very peaceful and plenty on the shelves.

I think I'm going to start doing the delivery on a Saturday morning and either go in person to aldi on Wednesday or another small delivery

Friday morning and Monday morning- food delivery using a saver delivery subscription. 2 small shops, saving a fortune.. but I WFH and get deliveries for 8-9am as kids get themselves to school now.

Sunday morning with free parking. Get into Sainsbury's at 9:45, standing in the queue for self-scan checkout by 10:00

I'm another one that lives 5 minutes walk away from a few supermarkets.

I'll often walk up in the morning before work to get some fresh air - they both open at 7, Lidl can have some good reductions at that time.

Or I may go sainsburys at 6 ish for evening reductions.

I bought a trolley a few years ago and it's a game changer - I barely ever drive to a supermarket and if I do I usually combine it with picking daughter up from work.

I go every 4 days. Meal plan all the time

Monday, because that's my day off and then we're all sorted for the week. We may nip to a shop on a Friday evening or Saturday morning if we need more bread or milk for the weekend.

I go most days as I hate big shops but we do often pop in together on Saturdays (we aren't buying wine honest )

Wednesday because dp is off and he can deal with it 🤣.

Sunday and then I get bits during the week

Luckily we live V close to an Aldi, we only eat fresh veg, fruit and meat so dh pops in every couple of days.

I find meat from aldi, especially mince goes off reallt fast.

If you're a terrible meal planner, why not use something like Gousto or Hello Fresh? You could potentially have five days of dinners delivered at the start of the week, then have a grocery delivery on a Saturday for weekend food, lunches, etc...

This seems like a good idea.

We have a delivery at weekends, either Saturday or Sunday, but always need top up shops.

Monday as that's my day off work.

DH goes first thing on Sunday morning.

Thanks - I did try Hello Fresh but didn't find the producer very nice? Is Gousto nicer?

Thursday as I only work in the morning. We live in rural Spain so no online deliveries in our area. We usually go to 1 supermarket, the bakers and the "UK" shop.
We always meal plan and try to make sure that we get everything we need because its a ballache to do a top up shop.
Once a month we go to Costco to get laundry stuff, toilet and kitchen rolls ect. Also get the massive sacks of dog food ( ours is on a prescription diet ) that last just over a month.
I always have some UHT milk , tea bags, strong flour ect in stock so that if we cant get to the shops for whatever reason we wont starve.

@Donthideyourlight I like it. Good variety of meals, meat is good quality and produce lasts well.

Top up shops - it's not the day you choose it's your shopping list

Meal plan the whole week

Analyses your past shopping receipts to look for patterns

Or if you can't plan a whole week ahead plan to do 2 shops and shop for 3/4 days at a time ( to a list based on the meal plan )

I shop online every 10 days it makes me meal plan and really think about what I'm buying and definitely saves me money. I changed from weekly on a Wednesday to this when tesco changed the delivery plans (January 2023). I can now do a shop for 2 adults, 2 teens, two with afrid and one with allergies for £70 every 10 days (I was spending the same daily amount in 2020 and with food prices going up its definitely a save). We eat a lot made from scratch but use a lot of frozen vegetables, also have milk and bread in the freezer (which I know is not for everyone).

Thanks midge - I'm sure it's a bit of both!

Friday afternoon food delivery… means we have meals planned for the week and snacks - if they run out then no snacks during the week

Also agree my weekly food shop delivery helps stop the last minute ohh I’ll grab that chocolate!!

Whenever I need to and have time. Most often a Sunday morning. I don’t do delivery - I enjoy food shopping and prefer to choose my own alternatives.

Tuesday. I think I started doing it when I had deliveries and it was cheaper midweek.
I do click and collect now but have stuck to Tuesday out of habit and also it means that I can do meal planning and the online order at the weekend when I have time. It also means that Monday ends up being leftover night when we just eat whatever is in the fridge/freezer so we reduce wastage that way.

Meal planning and ordering Thursday night, delivery Friday. Then we've got plenty of food in for the weekend and all the Friday night treats 😀