Do you shop online, at different shops or at one shop?

sjprmc01

Satellite towns?

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Edwardia

Since March 2012 we have been eating organic, wild and additive free. I used to shop mostly Lidl, ASDA and Waitrose in that order. Now it's Ocado, Abel & Cole and Riverford with forays into Sainsbury's mostly. It' s just very difficult to find enough organic food for a week without going to several supermarkets otherwise and doesn't save enough money to cover bus fares.

My moneysaving tips are:

• if you smoke give it up, if you drink, cut down or give up - just doing these will save ££££ per year
• take lunch to work, ditto tea/coffee don't use Starbucks etc
• buy in bulk on offers unless you think it will make you/others use it all faster.
• if you don't really need a car and it sits around unused days per week consider walking, ordering stuff online, using public transport and therefore save on fuel, tax, insurance, MOT, maintenance, leasing/HP etc (needs careful working out)
• sales for clothes, charity shops
• buy books from charity shops not bookshops/supermarkets or use library snce you already pay council tax for it (some you can borrow DVDs too)
• get magazines on subscription if you must have them as saves money and you sometimes get freebies
• buy DVDs or rent rather than go to cinema
• buy food to cook at home rather than eat out/get takeaways
• have a go at growing some fruit/veg if you have a garden, herbs if you have balcony/windowsills

System

buy DVDs or rent rather than go to cinema

I have found that if you buy recently released DVD's/CD's you can sell them on Ebay for just a few pounds short of what youve paid for them.

Fire_Fox

maddeningly wrote: »

Spend is yet but judging by my bank statements it's a lot. I've been to @sda tonight I cannot believe how much things have gone up since last time I went, loads of things I buy have gone up by 20-30p since last week. I'm not a fan of online shopping as I don't like the substitutes they give you and I like to make sure I buy stuff with the best dates on. I tend to buy 1 months worth of supples from home bargains and then do a weekly shop for food. Is there a cheaper way of doing this in your opinions? I sho at asda as the Aldi where I live is rubbish for fruit and veg, you can tell its only got a day or 2 before it goes off. And if anyone can think of any more saving tips for me, that would be great! Thank you

Asda are supposed to pick the best dates available for home delivery, anything that is short dated/ damaged/ missing/ wrong item you can get refunded in full simply by logging in and clicking, it's hassle free. I don't get that many subs, I suspect it depends when you shop, I always choose the cheaper days like Monday or Tuesday. If the item free it doesn't matter what you do with it, just make soup, curry or stew and freeze if it is short dated.

Personally I do a combination of online shopping and in store shopping: Asda, Tesco, Morrisons, Aldi, Farmfoods, Home Bargains, Amazon Subscribe & Save, local covered market. I do a fair bit of pricing up online before I go, I actually use the supermarket websites to make up my shopping list. Tend to do large shops online between every two weeks and every month to get the best prices on bulky and heavy items, then pick up fresh stuff locally once a week.

Instead of buying fresh leafy veggies and soft fruits that go off and are pricey, try eating more of the cheaper longer life stuff: canned beans, dried lentils, canned tomatoes, fresh root vegetables, whole red cabbage, butternut squash, most frozen vegetables. Anything longlife that is on offer I buy in bulk, sometimes six months worth at a time - check out the World Foods section in a large supermarket for cheap brown rice, beans, lentils, ground spice blends, canned tomatoes, cooking oil. Always look at the price per kilo.

Government recommended adult serving size for meat is just 100-125g which is much smaller than most of us have. Instead have more organ meats such as chicken livers (£2.20 a kilo) and canned oily fish such as pilchards and mackerel (<£1 for 400g) It is recommended to have fish at least twice a week. If you prefer fresh fish mackerel, herring and sardines are much cheaper than salmon or cod.

Aldi is really good for free range chicken (£3.40 a kilo) and eggs (14.5p each medium size), both cheaper than the supermarkets. Also their balsamic vinegar is half the price of Asda's cheapest. Farmfoods for frozen veg, frozen rhubarb and mixed berries, jumbo king prawns, serrano ham (much less fatty than Tesco's cheapest), Chinese crispy duck with pancakes for a treat.

Lastly look at how much ready made and processed stuff you are buying, anything with sugar added or fat added (includes many breakfast cereals, jar sauces, spreads and condiments for sarnies, flavoured yoghurt) should be maximum 10% daily calories for health. That is one small snack for most of us: even families that think they eat healthily often exceed that at either breakfast or in a packed lunch alone.

Sequeena

We live on a mountain so the bulk of our shopping comes from asda. I use home bargains/b&m for toiletries, cleaning, some pet food and dried fruit/snacks.

I go into morrisons when they have the best offers as we have 10% off there.

Pets at home for pet food.

Lidls when they have good half price weekend offers and Aldi when they have a baby event on as I stock up on nappies for my toddler.

That's it I think. It's taken a while to figure out the best places for the things we buy but we save quite a lot this way

booter

sjprmc01 wrote: »

Satellite towns?

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-satellitetown.html