![]() ![]() Our new shopping habits have helped us to save thousands on our grocery bill over the past few years and will continue into the future and has helped us to ensure the food we are buying, goes into our mouths and not the bin or landfill.Ģ. Plans change, so we avoid buying food too far in advance in case our plans do change and we end up throwing the extra we bought out. It also means that we aren’t buying food that might not get eaten. If we need something on Monday in 7 days it can wait for our next shop. ![]() This is important for two reasons, it gives us a cut-off for our shopping list. We buy only what we need for the week ahead. We Meal Plan around our schedule for the week so we know what meals we need to buy and what we don’t and plan our shopping list accordingly. We look at what we do and don’t have, so we don’t come home with excessive amounts of food we didn’t need. Having a routine has been a huge game-changer! Now when we shop we are a more well-oiled machine. And trying to cook meals when you have 4 weeks of food at the ready was not any easier. I’d come home from the store and realise we had bought more than we could fit in our pantry or fridge or freezer. It was horrible for the environment, wasteful in terms of being a valuable resource and a complete waste of money. ![]() I realised how wasteful I had been with shopping in the past and was constantly annoyed at how much food I would end up throwing away each week. When I discovered Minimalism, it soon enveloped so many other areas of my life, including my grocery shopping. Things I Used To Do That Now Seem Weird To Me As a Minimalist ![]()
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