Always at the shop

[Lorrainewroteabook]

I feel like I’m forever buying food, I used to do the weekly big shop and that was it. These days I feel like I’m spending so much more, but running out of food more quickly 🤷🏻‍♀️
Anyone else?

Well in the last couple of years food has increased a lot. Are you or your family eating more, some teens eat like sumos!? Could you do a big online shop with quite a strict list. If others eat all the snacks then there's none until the next big shop?
I find it so grim to think about prices of things I've accepted I'm being ripped off. Hoping a change in government will help ease COL crisis.

I thought I was the only one! I’m constantly having to go to the shops to top up these days. I’ve no idea why

We do but that is becuse we have more time on our hands as we left work erly years ago - we never go to shops unless we are buy so gets us out and about

However, when we worked like you - it was on the whole one shop, forward palanning an two large fridge freezers

We did not have the time to go twice for food

Make an Excel chart of everything you buy in a month as you buy it, with what you used it for listed next to it. We did this in January and worked out that at least half of what we buy isn’t for meals but for just random snacking. Which is fine - we are grazing sorts of people rather than meals people anyway and don’t have any budget to stick to, but it was useful as beforehand I think we’d have also said we didn’t know where the money went on grocery shopping.

I don’t have the time, but forever having to
nip to the shop for bread, milk etc etc. Not sure what’s changed, it’s just myself, Dh and our 5 year old, they’re out at work &
school, I work part time and don’t eat much at home really

If you’re always nipping out for e.g. bread and milk then the simple answer is that you’re eating more bread and milk than you used to! Which isn’t surprising if you now have a five-year-old who two/three years ago wouldn’t have been eating quite as much as they are now.

Yup, well tbh I can't even mostly go to my local supermarket because of harassment, so much fun 🙃

@Pixiesgirl Harassment why?

@ComtesseDeSpair Shes at school
all day so there should be less food surely

Stock your freezer with bread and milk, much easier.

Try working in one . I'm single handily keeping mine afloat. After a shift putting out all the yummy stuff I have no will power at all.

Just do as a PP suggested and buy more bread and milk to freeze.

Local twats .No idea why.

I get an online shop once a week for a family of 5 and don't do any top up shops. We store bread in the fridge and get filtered milk. We spend loads more than we did a few years ago but then there was only 4 of us and all of us are eating full meals now, but prices have shot up as well.

Shrinkflation, meaning we really are getting less stuff for more money. Also in the same article, skimpflation - the food's lower quality so you might feel you want more.