Do you buy all your food at the supermarket?

[bronners]

I do my main shop at Coles, but we get our (organic) fruit & veggies delivered...got a co-op delivery system going locally as the greengrocers is 40 mins away. It is organic at very cheap prices, almost exactly the same as conventional fruit n veg at the supermarket when the produce is in season. We also probably only eat meat once a week and I am vegetarian so that helps cost wise. At the moment I think we are spending around $150 a week for shopping all up (fam of 3, DS is 3yrs). I am a budgeter and menu planner though and make a lot of our own snacks, not much packaged stuff.

[Lucy]

I live in an area where we are blessed with fantastic choice of produce shops as well as a lovely sense of community. These things, and price and quality, mean that yes, I definitely 'split' my shopping.

I buy bread from an Italian bakery twice a week.
I buy fruit and veggies from a fruit and veg market once a week. And it lasts the week.
I buy meat from my local butcher, weekly.

All the other boring stuff I get at Coles/Woolies/Foodland.......

[Lolli]

I go to the butchers (cheaper meat and better), the green grocers (because I hate Woolies fruit and veg, it goes off in three days, or goes from under ripe to spoiled ovenight... don't get me started!!), and I try to make the farmer's market once a fortnight for vegies too- when I get there, it saves me a fortune, they last almost three weeks.

Laranna- Dairy Farmers have a milk man service, maybe check out there webiste if you're interested? I know they do a run here, twice a week drop off before 7am.

[Loula]

DH BF is a great butcher so we get all our meat from his shop! and it is so good! always buy fresh veg and fruit from any local farmers market when i can if not then the greengrocer! Newspapers from the news agent! bread from the bakery etc all my eggs come from family or 'Green eggs' at farmers market (ilove them)

like others have said all the boring stuff from coles/ woolworths

[~*Niadalla*~]

I split it up... saves me heaps!
Aldi, Fruit and Veg shop and Bucher will cost me maybe $200 for a fortnights worth

I shop at coles or the likes... more like $400 for the same things.

Quality is sooo much better than a supermarket... def worth the extra fuss

[fionas]

When I was single, I used to be quite organised especially as I don't drive so there's only so much shopping you can lug on the tram. So I used to buy meat at the market and freeze it or cook in stews then freeze. I'd order fruit and veggies online from a specialty greengrocer and have them delivered. And I'd go to Coles once a week for the other stuff like tins.

Now DP insists on doing the shopping and he really likes going to lots of different places so if he has time, he will separate out into butcher, greengrocer, bakery, Aldi AND Coles. If he's going after hours though, he'll just do Coles.

I can't tell you the number of arguments we've had about him trying to get me to go with him - he thinks food shopping is fun and I would rather drop a brick on my foot quite frankly. So we compromise and I do the meal planning/list writing and he go gets the stuff and we share the cooking.

[mbear]

Im the same as the other girls.....i just dont have the time or energy with 3 little ones to go to 3 different shops. I shop at coles, luckily there is a butcher across the road where i get my meat.
Ive recently discovered Aussie Farmers Direct.....free delivery, all aussie produce. We got a huge fruit box delivered for $35 - mangoes, bananas, nectarines, apples, oranges and peaches. It lasted ages, and all moneys goes to the farmers.......worth looking into !