Buying your dinner on the day is a very expensive habit. It is best to go with a meal plan and buy only what you need. I flip through recipe books and try to find 8 recipes for the week and try to find ones that use similar ingredients so for instance if I wasn't in the mood for spag bol (I use basic sauce and paste and add my veggies to make it my own) I could make a pizza instead with the veggies and meat I would have used in the spag just by whipping up a crust with flour, yeast, water etc (stuff I already have heaps of).

We spend $100-$150 a week and hope to have that a bit lower when my veggie garden starts producing and I have my preserving kit.

I buy all my flour, sugar, spices and other staples when they are on sale and make sure I have heaps. I do lots of baking and home cooked because I hate preservitives.

My usual shopping trip would just be fresh veg and fruit, milk, sandwich meat, yogurt, cheese etc. I make my own pasta now so I don't buy that anymore but that would have been on the list. Maybe a taco kit if DP is in the mood for cooking one night, ooo bread, we go through lots of bread. I buy butter when it is on sale too and freeze it until it is needed. I can't really think of too much more off the top of my head. Juz has hotdogs for lunch everyday so that makes lunch easy. Yep, just drawn a blank, hope it helps anyway...