The average UK household is spending nearly £119 per week on food shopping, amounting to more than £6,000 per year. For families with children, the cost can increase to £170 weekly. Rising costs mean that 61 per cent of the UK claim they’ve had to cut back.
In a new series, The i Paper asks families how they manage their weekly food shop. This week, we hear from Pippa Wright, a 36-year-old mother of two, aged three and five, in Shropshire, on how she and her husband, 36, budget their self-employed income as content creators. She shares her tips on Instagram and YouTube at cookathomemum.
I do one big £150 food shop at the beginning of the month and I batch cook all our family dinners within five or six hours. Then I do a weekly shop for lunchbox fillers, and our breakfast items. This way I only have to make one big meal plan shopping list once a month.
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I’ve been doing this for around six months, and it saves me so much time. I’m sure a lot of parents feel like this but I was getting so burnt out deciding what we were going to eat for dinner every night that I reworked how to do it. We’re also spending less money because I’m not falling for convenience items in the supermarket that could just save me on the day as I didn’t have a meal in mind.
