Another way to save money when supermarket shopping!

SnowBelle_2

@ Softkitty,
If you love garlic bread a cheaper option is ready to bake bagettes,which usually have a long best before date or reduced bread rolls,a jar of ready chopped garlic(which keeps for ages) some dried mixed herbs and spreadable butter/marg
I use Flora.
Mix up garlic with butter/marg in a dish add some herbs,spread on the bread and put in the oven for about 10 mins til it gets crusty & melted.
you can add as much garlic as you want.
It's lovely and works out cheaper than store bought garlic bread.

sunrise27_2

SnowBelle wrote: »

@ Softkitty,
If you love garlic bread a cheaper option is ready to bake bagettes,which usually have a long best before date or reduced bread rolls,a jar of ready chopped garlic(which keeps for ages) some dried mixed herbs and spreadable butter/marg
I use Flora.
Mix up garlic with butter/marg in a dish add some herbs,spread on the bread and put in the oven for about 10 mins til it gets crusty & melted.
you can add as much garlic as you want.
It's lovely and works out cheaper than store bought garlic bread.

I do this as well its lovely

celebrate

have you noticed its always the junk food generally on offer in the middle of the isles-i know that's a bit of a generalisation, or perhaps thats just what i zoom straight in for! crisps and mini hobnobs!!

hermum

Something that I always do is make sure I have the smallest trolley, or a basket if needing between say 4-10 things, less than 4 I carry in my hand. That way you can't overload it too much.
Some trolleys now look to be the size of a skip, useful for a family of 4 who shop monthly but ridiculous for most weekly shops.
I second the making stuff yourself, tastes so much nicer than shop bought & loads cheaper.

Olive_Oyl

I tend to shop a day later each week . So if say I go on a Monday one week then it would be Tuesday the next and so on .

I can always find something to make a meal and it means I save the cost of a full shopping bill every 8 weeks :j

Owain_Moneysaver

I only buy luxury items if they are reduced by at least 50% for quick sale.

Then I stock the freezer.

Unless they are to be taken for sharing (where the box will be on view), all biscuits/crisps/nuts are Value. I have actually put Value inside Finest box before now and nobody noticed.

lawrie28

I've done the online shop, then cut and pasted it to a word file and printed it out as a shopping list.

Means I only buy what is on the list - but can look out for offers on similar products to save - have time before I get to the shop to make sure I need everything, and also can fly around the shop knowing exactly what I want, without being dragged in to all the other offers, flashy signs etc.

Snugglebunny8

I put my shopping list into Mysupermarket, make sure where Im shopping is the cheapest, then write down the list and try to stick to it. Lucky so far this year Sainsburys has been cheapest every week, but I also check the offers at Tesco on Mysupermeerkat (have a big Tesco by my youngests school, so not wasting petrol on extra trip) so will pop in there for good offers for store cupboard, (like the 240 tetley teabags at £2.64) and also make a trip every couple of weeks to Asda (further away) to stock up eg on the Fairy 3 for £2 offer.

I find taking 10 minutes to check over everything on Mysupermeerkat really saves money and I make a note of things on offer elsewhere that I can stock up on if its a good enough deal.

The shopping one day a week later each week and saving a weeks shopping every 8 weeks is a great idea, thanks for the tip, will try it!

I agree life is too short not to have a biccy too, I buy whatever choccy or biccies are on offer, stock up the goody cupboard if its BOGOF or half price, if its full price we dont have it!

JulieGeorgiana

I am another who does the shopping on my supermarket. I then juggle it between two supermarkets and make sure it's in my budget.

Then I write it all in the order of the shop (from when I get in the door until I get to the back of the shop).

Then I shop I don't 'look' around at the offers (because they are listed on mysupermarket and online here) I just start at the beginning and go round pick up what's on the list and pay at the end.

Last night i got a 10p whoopsie on impulse, but it meant cutting a 25p item off the list.

Also when I have a bad day, I also go through my trolly and remove impulse buys which will not save me money in the long run.

Baking cookies is a great way to save money, also HM garlic bread is lovely.

Also bulk buy offers when you can, and this will save you a ton of money!

katiekins_2

I agree that having a list and sticking to it is the best way to stick to a budget, though I don't need to add up as I walk around as my husband does that - his mental arithmetic is brilliant, I think it's down to betting when we go horse racing (not that we go very often) and as a football fan always working out our team and rival team's positions based on any number of imaginary scenarios......!!:rotfl:

My husband also does all the cooking (he says I get in his way in the kitchen, so I do the baking when I'm allowed in!!) and he works out a menu plan for the week ahead before writing the shopping list. He also cooks in larger quantities every now and then at weekends and freezes the extra, eg triple quantity of chilli, cheese sauce/cauliflower cheese, veg curry - makes having a home cooked meal every evening after his train gets in at 6 a doddle too. Also menu planning means you can plan meals around the size of ingredients you buy, so if we need a few spoons of something in one recipe, we'll make sure we make something else that uses the rest of it later in the week.

We used to do all our shopping at Tesco and used vouchers all the time before black friday (when they stopped taking vouchers even if you didn't buy the product it as long as they stocked it) - now we do all our shopping at a local farm shop and Waitrose, eating only organic meat and dairy, and our monthly household budget is the same, despite food and petrol price rises!!!!:D