2 things that help me stay within my Grocery budget

Two things that save me money when it comes to grocery shopping, and could also save you money. I will also explain why I believe these are very important things when you wanna cut down on your grocery budget or you wanna control your grocery budget. Number one, it's a monthly bulk buying budget. How this works is you dedicate a certain amount of money to just bulk buying. And you draw down a list, you buy the item that's most discounted, the discipline isn't buying the item that is at its best price, whether it's toilet paper, whether it's dishwashing liquid, whatever it is, drop that list and concentrate on looking for the best special possible from any of these shops. And that means you're buying on that item that you love at the most discounted price. So that the second thing that helps me cut down on groceries is meal planning. And when it comes to meal planning, I just do dinners. You can decide now, you wanna do it. But the reason why this works is those people who end up at the shops buying things that when you get home, you're like, okay, you've got the pasta sauce, but you forgot to buy the pasta. Meal planning will help you with this because you draft a meal plan for the week or for the month, that's up to you. And you write down the ingredients or the things that you will need after checking what's in your cupboard. You write down the things that you need. When you're going to the shops, you already have that list with you. There's no way you're going to be ending up with pasta sauce and not having pasta or you end up wanting to make a curry sauce and you don't have the meat. That won't happen to you. So, there are a lot of people who just are very disorganized when it comes to grocery shopping. They end up buying things that are not necessary. This is another reason why meal planning helps you quite a bit because it takes away what do I need? And it takes away all the unnecessary distractions when you're at the shop. You're not going to be looking at things that you don't need. You go in there, you buy the things on the list. You walk out because your meal plan is for this week or for these two weeks. This is what you need. This is what helps me, I hope it helps you too. I also love to hear how you manage your grocery budget in this tough economic times. How you're surviving with the same budget that you've always had. It could help another person. Have a good day guys. Ah