{"id":2870,"date":"2021-03-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegreenlist.nl\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:31:26","slug":"sustainable-groceries-challenge-month-make-ends-meet-on-100-euros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegreenlist.nl\/en\/duurzame-boodschappen-challenge-maand-rondkomen-van-100-euro\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable grocery challenge: make ends meet on 100 euros for a month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A don't-waste-me challenge where we save as much food as possible from the supermarket, empty our cupboards and spend less than 100 euros in one month. Can a family (two adults and one child) manage that? Nice challenge, isn't it? Saving on groceries, saving food, in short, being sustainable. Saskia took up this sustainable grocery challenge with her family and made it! We made it with 99.71 euros! And boy, were we sustainable when we were foowaste-warriors<\/em>.<\/strong>\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Save on groceries with this sustainable grocery challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I was a bit done with that overflowing pantry, with the high grocery spending and the boring winter month. And so I came up with a sustainable grocery challenge that is also a great savings tip: cook with leftovers from the freezer, empty the cupboards at last and save food in the supermarket. To make the challenge really challenging, we agreed as a family not to spend more than 100 euros on groceries in a month. That's about 25 euros per week. Why? Our idea was that this way you won't be tempted to buy something nice anyway. No, first use up (creatively) what you already have in terms of food and drink. It was a success! The new habits are still reverberating!<\/p>\n\n\n\n