10 Ways To Slash Your Grocery Bill

3. Love The Simple Meal

For some reason, in the last few decades, it has somehow become a must for the primary caregivers of our households to deliver a restaurant-ready meal to the table, seven nights a week. In our minds, dinner is a main protein with grains and veggies heaped on the sides, but that’s not the only way to do it. You aren’t a failure as a parent if your kids eat omelettes or leftover toasties when there isn’t the time or ingredients left to put together something else. Embrace more simplicity in your meals, and you might be surprised how cheap they become.

4. Meal Plan & List Write

Meal planning and writing a solid shopping list that you do now diverge from are two simple ways to save money on your groceries. However, always make sure that when you meal plan, you work off what you have available at home. Got a lot of something in the pantry? Don’t buy more of something new if you can use the stuff you already have. The same goes for anything that you can pick up cheaply or through swaps with friends. Here, we’re talking about eggs from a friend’s chicken coop, or even fish from the latest family fishing trip that have been sitting  n the freezer. Plan around that!

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Clare Whitfield Chief Editor

Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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