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Original poster

Go food shopping..STILL no food in house WHAT

57 replies

Thinkpositive23 · 09/04/2018 06:41

I'm pulling my hair out. Literally.
I go food shopping for a big shop come home and there is still no food in in terms of something I can make a meal from or a go to snack..

How do you do your shopping?? What do you buy??

I'm so rubbish

OP posts:

Snog · 10/04/2018 16:49

By the way it took me 20 years of crap grocery purchasing before I got the meal planning system going so you are early to the party OP!

ProseccoPoppy · 10/04/2018 16:53

Is your budget for just two? No DC? If so it is definitely workable but does need meal planning. We’re a family of four (two adults, a toddler and a baby) and typically spend £50 - £90 pw including nappies and a small amount of premix formula for DH to help with night feeds. We are not on a desperate budget (could spend more if we needed to) but it typically works out around that on our usual meal plans. If your DP is fussy he ought to be the one doing the thinking and planning imo.

PattiStanger · 10/04/2018 17:01

If you're the one doing the meal planning, the shopping and the cooking I think your DH has a got a bit of a nerve complaining.

Is there a reason he can't do his own shopping and cooking?

GreenTulips · 10/04/2018 17:06

Well if you do a spagbol for example - purchase some tinfoil cartons from the £1 shop and put any extra in the freezer - remove in the morning

caliroll · 10/04/2018 20:49

I'm running low on fresh food and cba to go supermarket shopping today. I still managed to cobble together a storecupboard/freezer staple meal of tuna & sweetcorn/carrot mayo pasta. Tomorrow, I'll defrost some chicken wings and throw it into a casserole with frozen peas, carrots, stock and rice.

Always have rice, pasta and couscous in my cupboards and frozen sweetcorn & peas in the freezer. Plus jars of green pesto for when I really cba! Those part baked baguettes are pretty useful to have in as well.

MessySurfaces · 10/04/2018 21:14

Sounds like your DP needs to be in charge of food then, doesn't it? (Planning, shopping AND cooking it) Then you can turn your nose up...

AdoraBell · 10/04/2018 21:28

Get him to write a list of what he wants, and the days he is going to cook those dishes. Or he eats what you cook, with a couple of his choices per week.

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