Money Saving Tips

Are you fed up when you go shopping that your money doesn’t seem to go far enough? Do you wish your budget would stretch that much further? There are ways in which you can do this and they are easy and simple to do. These great money-saving tips will save you money every time you go to the store.

Don’t Go Shopping Hungry

This is so true have you ever noticed how much more items that you can place in your trolley when you are hungry? If you are hungry when you turn up at the shop you would do better to admit this and find a snack purchase the snack and eat this before you even start your shopping. This will prevent you from having a problem and breaking your budget with a shop that is full of high calorie food that has little nutritional value and useless for the intended purpose of feeding you and your family.

But there is more if you are feeling tired and uninterested in the food shopping you will tend to pick the same foods each week and this can lead to a diet that is boring and unappealing. It will make you want to pick the high calorie treat food to put a sparkle back in your diet.

If you can avoid taking a hungry child with you this could also stop you from getting stressed and picking the wrong and more expensive foods.

What To Do To Reduce The Costs

If you are looking for that way to reduce the cost of your shopping then you need to consider what foods that you really need and what you want to eat. The only way you are going to do this is if you write a detailed shopping list of what you actually want.

You can only do this if you are aware of what you are eating during the week. If you prepare a plan of your meals it can save time and arguments at meal times and you will have the food already. This will reduce the amount of times that you will need to visit the shops. But it can also mean you visit the take-out place less frequently and this can save you money too.

When you have worked out your meals for the week then you need to check the supplies that you have got. Only then will you need to write a list for the items that you will need during the week. This is a great way of saving you money and time.

It is a great idea to check out the sales in your local shops, see what is on special before you write your shopping list. There are always loss leaders in the supermarkets these are products that the supermarket reduce to bring customers into the store, buy the reduced items and leave the expensive items that you don’t want or need on the shelves.

How I Shop

I dislike grocery shopping and this is why I have developed this system over several years. I do a big grocery shop once a month, the rest of the month I get my perishables like fruit and milk. This means on ten minute shop once a week and a couple of hours at the beginning of the month. This method has saved me money and time, both very precious commodities in my home.

This method can mean that the last week of the month becomes more difficult to just pick and choose the food that you want, but planning the menus help enormously, it keeps me within my monthly budget. It is a great way for using up some of the store-cupboard ingredients too.