10 Ways To Slash Your Grocery Bill

9. Be Leftover Proactive

When you’re cooking, it’s not as hard as you think to spread a dish out, puffing it up with a little bit more rice, vegetables or beans to make it last. In fact, it’s much easier, and much cheaper, to do this instead of cook from scratch with those ‘bulk out’ ingredients. So if you’re doing a cook up of a large stew, spa bol or curry, add some extra items and then proactively freeze those leftovers for another dinner. If you don’t, they’ll rot in the fridge or get gobbled up in boredom hunger, instead of giving your family an extra meal per week.

10. Don’t Shop In Between

One of the biggest mistakes people make when they’re trying to stick to a budget is to not get everything they need in the first shop, and then go back to the shops regularly for ‘top ups’. When this happens, you pretty much always buy more than what you intended to buy, which means more cost and more money out of the bank. Be very rigid with your shopping list, get everything you can that’s on it and adapt if there’s something that isn’t there, instead of returning to the shops at a later date.

Here are just a few ideas about cutting your grocery bill. We’d love to hear yours as well!

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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