Weekly {Grocery} Shopping Plan

{Our local Portugal Farmers Market}

Grocery shopping can so feel like the never ending chore.  As much as I would like to shop once a week, and preferably only at one store, I never seem to be able to.  The problem for me is that not each store carries everything that I need.  So inevitably I end up going to various stores for different things every.single.week.  Not to mention all of the items I tend to forget week after week – even though they were on my list.

Being the planner that I am, I have found that by coordinating my menu planning along with my grocery shopping, I am usually much better able to manage my time and my last minute “have to” shops!

I plan my menus weekly, Monday-Sunday and I also refer to my menus for breakfasts and lunches.  By having a plan for the meals for the week, I can more easily come up with my lists for each of the stores I like to shop at.  In addition, I list any household item, gift, card, etc…  Things like that that we also need week to week.

Tuesday-Grocery Store (Meals/Produce/Dairy/Meats)

Wednesday-Farmers Market (Produce)

This makes it so that I only have to go to the same store once per week.  I shop for specific items at each store and have narrowed down what I like best from each place.

So tell me….

How many grocery stores do you shop on a weekly basis?
Leave me a comment, I am curious what the averages are.