We all know grocery shopping is so expensive!! It is a huge bulk of your monthly money but it also means it’s a great opportunity to save lots of money too! Here are my top tips for how to feed your family on a budget and cut your grocery bill in half!
How To Feed Your Family On A Budget
Take an inventory – Know all the food you have in your cupboards, freezer and fridge.
Go late in the day to take advantage of the yellow sticker deals.
Meal plan, we all know how much of an advocate I am for this, it saves me hundreds!
Cook from scratch as much as you can, this is often healthier too!
Bulking out meals with cheaper ingredients can help stretch them for longer – lentils, chickpeas, grated carrot and frozen veg can really help with costs.
Best before dates – There’s a difference between use by & best before dates. I usually ignore them all and rely on sense of smell and look to see if they are ok – I often eat veg that is past it’s BBE by weeks as it’s still fresh.
Don’t buy pre-packaged and pre-weighed food – often it’s much more expensive so check the price p/kg.
Be more careful with meat/dairy – use common sense here. And freeze if you’re not going to eat it in time!
Know your prices!! This will help you know when a good deal is a good deal!
Ways To feed your family on a budget
Zero waste – this is key to saving money on your food bill. If you keep a diary of the cost of what you’re wasting it will soon change your behaviours!
Challenge yourself! Some of my most popular videos on YouTube are my how to feed your family on a budget – I challenge myself to £50 per week for a family of 4 and stick to it!
If a meal is cheap to cook and easy to prep don’t feel bad about having it 3 times per week!
Drink lots of water! Often our hunger could be thirst masquerading!
Cook according to what you have in your fridge/cupboards – make some weird and wonderful meals out of what you have in so as not to waste food.
Always pack a lunch and a coffee if you’re out for the day or at work.
Don’t buy “ready made” foods like grated cheese, chopped onions, peeled potatoes etc!
Stick to own brand food, toiletries and home products – this works out so much more affordable!
Buy a whole chicken and make four meals from it – roast dinner, curry, pasta and soup!
Grow your own or get help from someone with an allotment!
Go meat free twice per week, this is such a good way of how to feed your family on a budget.
Try to go for smaller portions a couple of times a week.
Batch cook and bulk buy! (Costco, meat when on offer etc.) This is a brilliant way of how to feed your family on a budget.
Go to free recipies online and on YouTube for meal inspo – I have heaps of videos on my YouTube if you want to watch.
“Chuck it all in” dishes are my fave ways of using up all the tail ends of veggies in the fridge such as veggie pasta, chickpea curry or a lovely warming bowl of soup!
I’d love to hear your tips for how to feed your family on a budget – let me know your tips and head over to my YouTube for tonnes of videos all about how to feed your family on a budget, how to food shop on a budget, and lots of meal inspiration!
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