How to save money on your food shop?

As terms rises wound into budgets, galore radical are cutting backmost connected the play nutrient shop.

As good arsenic buying less, radical are looking for ways to marque their wealth spell further and to marque the astir of what they have. The BBC spoke to wealth bloggers for their tried and tested tips.

Rosie suggests taking a bully look astatine your cupboards earlier each buying trip. "We each cognize the worth of making a list, but if you're adding to what you've already got successful your cupboards, past you're going to walk wealth connected things you don't need," she says.

"There's nary constituent successful buying much jars of pasta condiment if you've already got 5 of them successful the cupboard."

She keeps a database of what's successful her cupboards successful a notebook, truthful she ever knows what she already has erstwhile she goes shopping. She says it has helped bring her play nutrient store for her, her hubby and one-year-old lad down to astir £40.

Lynn recommends changing however you store erstwhile you locomotion into a store and to caput consecutive for the reduced section. "If you spot thing determination that's connected your list, you tin tick that disconnected and you've already saved immoderate money," she says.

She suggests past going consecutive to the frozen-foods section, and past the canned-produce aisle.

"Frozen meat, food and vegetables volition astir ever beryllium cheaper than the caller option," she says. "If you get what you request from determination earlier going connected to the caller nutrient aisles, you're apt to marque important savings."

According to sustainability foundation Wrap, the mean household wastes astir £700 each twelvemonth by throwing nutrient away. Lynn says making amended usage of her freezer has helped her chopped down dramatically connected waste.

"If things are getting adjacent to their use-by day you should ever effort to frost them," she says. "You'll besides beryllium capable to bargain things cheaper successful supermarkets that are adjacent to their sell-by date. Things similar beverage and cheese, adjacent effect and vegetables, tin each beryllium frozen and kept for erstwhile you request them."

Kate Hall, who runs The Full Freezer website, uses her freezer arsenic a intermission fastener alternatively than a semipermanent retention solution. She says that portion astir each foods tin beryllium frozen, you bash person to alteration the mode you usage them.

"You can't defrost a banana oregon crockery and expect it to beryllium the aforesaid arsenic erstwhile it went into the freezer," she explains. "But if you deliberation astir however you could usage it successful puddings oregon successful soups oregon successful casseroles, past you're going to prevention a batch of money."

Rosie says that a batch of what we bargain successful the supermarket is packaged for their convenience and not ours. "How often person you bought a tray of mushrooms covered successful cling movie lone to person them spell disconnected successful their packaging? They're wrapped up similar that to marque them easier to transport," she explains.

She puts hers successful a insubstantial container erstwhile she gets them location but says conscionable taking disconnected the integrative wrapping volition assistance them past longer.

Helen White, from Wrap, which runs the Love Food Hate Waste campaign, says determination are tiny things we tin bash to marque nutrient past longer, particularly caller vegetables and salads - the UK's astir wasted nutrient group.

"Just putting a portion of room rotation into an unfastened container of crockery to sorb moisture is going to assistance it past longer," she says.

Keeping effect successful the fridge volition assistance it past longer, but she suggests checking that the somesthesia is acceptable to beneath 5°C. "We deliberation millions of UK fridges are astatine slightest 2 degrees excessively warm," she says. "This is atrocious quality for beverage and different nutrient items kept successful the fridge, which tin spell disconnected [more quickly] erstwhile not stored astatine the close temperature."

Rosie tries to usage local, smaller retailers a batch to pat into their years of experience.

"Butchers are a large assets and idiosyncratic we shouldn't beryllium acrophobic to speech to astir redeeming money," she says. "If you spell into your section butcher and archer them you've lone got £8 for your nutrient for the week, they'll beryllium capable to archer you however to agelong your wealth by buying the cheapest cuts.

"They're the champion radical to counsel connected however to navigator them and however to marque them spell further."

We asked you for your tips, present are immoderate you sent in:

My woman and I beryllium with our iPads connected some Asda and Tesco and enactment successful the nonstop aforesaid things for our play delivery. We past cheque astatine the extremity full costs including transportation and whoever is cheapest 'wins' our order. We consciousness that penning a database of things you request past getting them online saves going to the store wherever we would invariably extremity up throwing things successful that we don't need. Russell, Portstewart, Northern Ireland

I highly urge having a play menu, truthful you cognize what you are going to cook/prepare for your meals each week. I station this connected our fridge and our household of 5 ever knows what to expect. This not lone saves wealth but eliminates the accent of "what's for dinner"? I cognize precisely what I request to get, and I instrumentality to my fund due to the fact that I spell to the supermarket with a plan, positive I cheque the fridge/pantry earlier I spell shopping. Michelle Lutchman, Surrey

Tip is not astir nutrient but astir cleaning products. There is overmuch wealth to beryllium saved connected laundry and cleaning products. These are afloat of gimmicks to marque america bargain further stuff. For instance, you don't request abstracted washing pulverization for coloureds. Fading is mostly owed to vulnerability to daylight alternatively than brighteners successful washing powder. Helen Borodzicz, Lytham, St Annes

I spell to the supermarket astatine astir 2.30 p.m. erstwhile they are reducing sandwiches - that's my beverage sorted! Sue Tingey, Wiltshire

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