Download my FREE Grocery Shopping Cheat Sheet here.
What is Shop Smart, Eat Well? Find out more here.
Is it too much? Wouldn’t you rather be spending that hard earned money on more important things? It’s just food and groceries after all. If you follow the Shop Smart, Eat Well program, you will definitely spend way less on all groceries.
I’m Anne Murphy, owner of Domesblissity.com and I created the Shop Smart, Eat Well Program to prove that it is totally possible to spend less if you shop smart and you can still eat well.
In fact, it’s nothing new. Nothing really groundbreaking at all. This is the way my mother shopped and cooked for us, my grandmothers and generations before them. We’ve gone and made it all too difficult with meal planning, stockpiling, bulk cook ups. Who’s got time for that? (If that works for you, that’s great!)
But I know what I’d rather be doing with my time. Spending my weekends relaxing with family, submit my online grocery order with Coles Australia (my preferred supermarket), go and pick it up and pack it away. That’s it!
No looking at catalogues for the cheapest buys for the week.
No meal planning.
No bulk cook ups.
No stockpiling.
I think about what I’m going to eat for dinner either the night before or that morning and take out any meat to defrost, if required. I know, by the food that I buy, we can eat whatever we like from our favourite meals (plus many variations of those meals) by having a well stocked pantry, fridge and freezer. I keep that topped up each fortnight and spend only $150 per fortnight in TOTAL for everything!
That’s food, fruit, vegetables, meat, toiletries, general grocery items, laundry supplies, treats, fakeaway ingredients etc etc.
The best way to see what I make for dinner is to join the Shop Smart, Eat Well Facebook Group. We have so many members who already follow the Shop Smart, Eat Well program and save hundreds, if not thousands of dollars from their grocery spend. We share our evening meals and I also share many other tips for saving even more. Join here.
Honestly, I could quite easily spend $200 to $300 per week on groceries if I let myself but I don’t need to. I spend around $120 to $130 in my initial fortnightly shop and leave the remainder for top ups of bread, milk or fruit. If I run out of something I use a substitute or just go without until the next fortnight’s shop.
You can do this too. I’m all for easy. I couldn’t think of anything more time saving, cost saving and easy. Want to find out more? Join the Shop Smart, Eat Well Facebook group.
