Monthly Shopping
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Topic: Monthly Shopping
Posted By: mummy_becks
Subject: Monthly Shopping
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 10:25am
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How do you do it??? I am going to be doing my first monthly shop for Waiouru at the end of this month to take up with us and i'm not sure what to do. They do have a 4 square up there and the prices are really expensive, then the closest place to shop is Taihape at New World or even Ohakune. So I will be coming down to Palmy once a month to go shopping at Pak'n'Save. Should I buy all my bread and milk and freeze it?? I do have a chest freezer so have the space. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 10:32am
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I don't actually do monthly shops but if I did I would buy bulk everything - including milk, bread, meat, butter, cheese etc - and freeze what I don't need straight away (remember to siphon some milk from each bottle first so they don't split when the liquid expands).
I'd get a yoghurt maker too (if you don't have one already) and make my own yoghurt so you just need to buy the packets which can be stored in the pantry. -------------  
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Posted By: Peanut
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 10:45am
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When I was nannying in the UK, we had to do monthly shops and we froze all our milk, bread, cheese. Worked really well.
Best things for us was stocking up on canned stuff like tomatoes, baked beans, etc and your standard pasta and rice means you can make anything. If I was you (although you might not be as big a geek as me), I would write down everything you buy from the shop this time round and then its an easy check list e.g brought 6 cans of tomatoes used 3 so replace 3. I do this with our fortnightly shop and did it as an excel spread sheet and now just print it out each time and mark off what I need. Time consuming first time but so easy every other time! Yes, I am a complete geek  -------------  
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 10:47am
I love it Peanut, I sooo need to do that coz I have 2 dozen tins of creamed corn but no tinned tomatoes  -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 11:16am
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That's such a good idea peanut, my SIL does that too and I always mean to.... have been meaning to for about 6 years now.... *off to find procrastinators thred* -------------
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Posted By: NeoshasMummy
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 12:41pm
Lol me to and we dont even eat creamed corn.... go figure  ------------- https://secure.fertilityfriend.com/home/30c4ec/" rel="nofollow">  Mrs Te Kani ❤️ Neosha 26/5/2007 |
Maya wrote:Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 12:54pm
Ya think??   ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 1:16pm
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I am only use to monthly shopping and then came over here where it is weekly. Found weekly shopping to be a load more expensive. I do a combination of the two now. Work out more or less what you eat in a month or want to eat. Make the list. Then look at cleaning stuff and put that one. Then see what you have and dont have. Scrath out ect.
Milk I buy fresh. If we had to go somewhere I will just get longlife milk then. Bread I buy and put in the freezer. I will buy cheese, grate it and then put in the freezer. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 1:18pm
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if you have the room to freeze it then do it that way. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 1:33pm
I am glad you said that as I planned to do that as I am going to try my first monthly shop this weekend! I love spreadsheets! We always freeze our bread as we don't eat it fast enough to keep it in the pantry. I prefer to buy my milk fresh and will do it when I do the weekily vege shop ------------- Lindsey 
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Posted By: BessieBear
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 2:05pm
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we do fortnightly and we spend about the same as we did when we did weekly lol. ------------- Sarah Mum to, Boy 07/2008, Girl 03/2010, Boy 05/2012, Angel 07/08/2014
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Posted By: ohanlon82
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 2:09pm
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spreadsheet sounds fab..
we freeze our bread aswell and just leave 1/2 loaf in the fridge all the time.. grated cheese is fine in the freezer.... When we lose DH brother from living with us (eats like a horse) might try and do forthnightly shopping i think ------------- http://lb2f.lilypie.com/TikiPic.php/RPaODBg.jpg |
Posted By: nictoddie
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 3:54pm
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PM becca didn't she use to when they lived in Ohakune?????? ------------- 
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Posted By: Peanut
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 7:02pm
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Ginger, at least you put a whole lot of emoticons at the end
I had the millions of cans of one thing and just kept buying it, am now so good that I haven't had to buy creamed corn for 2 years 
If there is any other geeks lurking out there, you may PM me with your email addy and I can email it to you, then you can adapt etc and not have to do the start up bit. See, I am a helpful and friendly geek
Edited to say: I can't be that much of a geek as its only a word document and not an excel spreadsheet so probably down grades me a notch. -------------
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 8:22pm
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We have a spreadsheet too, DH organised a list of everything we could possibly (usually) buy and even check boxes down the side! Then we sorted it by where to find things.
Becks I'd find this very difficult cause I'm so used to weekly shopping. Maybe this week you could try your hand at buying two weeks' worth and making that last you for two weeks, and then see where you fell short for a monthly one. You're gonna really miss your garden! Did you manage to harvest everything? ------------- |
Posted By: marielb
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 9:36pm
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I haven't read the other posts yet, but we have monthly shopped since we had a house - so almost 8 years!! (WOW! Can't believe we've been home owners that long!)
We shop at Pak N Save at the beginning of every month (at the beginning of our credit card period) and DH shops one side of the shop, and I shop the other, we are done in about an hour. We write a list of what we are missing or running low on, and buy enough for 4 weeks. We buy a heap of bread at the fruit shop (as its cheaper than PnS) and get our fruit/vege/milk once a week. It works really well for us, and I think we save a heap of money, and we have really interesting meals with the 'leftover' food at the end of the month (ie - whatever we can scrape together!) ------------- Isaac is 6, Ethan is 4, Rico is 2 and Hunter is almost 1! |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 11:02pm
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Yep we got heaps out of it. I have some silverbeet and carrots in there, but the Guinea Pigs are eating that now. I am going to PM you Peanut to have a look at it to see if it'll help. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: WRXnKids
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 9:32am
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i use to order groceries online when preg and as we run out or got low on something add it to the list on the website plus it saves your lists from your last shop so found it really useful -------------   
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