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Meal Planning/ cutting shopping price help!

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Elfina · 15/12/2014 20:01

It's me, DH and DD who is 2. We are pescitarian, and ear a lot of fish. We don't snack, and tend to have hearty meals.

Shopping is currently about £120 a week (including nappies, laundry stuff and cleaning stuff, etc).

I really want to get this down in the new year.

Can anyone give me some ideas? I need more veggie, healthy, filling and cheap meals!

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KiaOraOAotearoa · 21/12/2014 21:27

Lidl!!!!
I used to spend £500 a month on groceries in Sainsbury's. I now spend about £200 in Lidl. We do a top up in Sainsbury's ( whatever we couldn't find in Lidl).

For me is easy, I am from the continent and used to eat/cook seasonally. So I wouldn't buy grapes, for example, in january, or rhubarb in the summer etc. The fact that Lidl doesn't do something means they're not in season, therefore more expensive/no taste etc.
Learn how to make potato and parsnip soup, for example. When the pumpkins were in season I bought 3 dirt cheap, made soup and froze it.
Look up recipes for dahl, curries, a bag of chapatti flour is very cheap, it goes a long way and is fab with curries.

My mum has a signature dish 'whatever's in the fridge' tossed in rice, delicious.

It's hard getting out of your confort zone, but, you know, could be fun!

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