There are plenty of opportunities to save money when feeding yourself and your family. The key elements are: Pay less for your food; Use less energy when cooking it.
Read on for the tips!
- Avoid pre-made, processed food. It’s more expensive than homemade – and is more unhealthy.
- Buy food in bulk and freeze.
- Make bulk batches of food, and bag and freeze the extra portions. This saves time in the week, and costs less per portion in terms of ingredients and energy.
- Keep your freezer and fridge full. It’s actually cheaper to run a full freezer than an empty one.
- Reheat food in a microwave where possible – it uses less energy that a hob or cooker.
- Entertain your friends and family at home, rather than in restaurants or pubs. You’ll pay less for food, and a lot less for drink!
- Buy food in season. It’ll be cheaper, will normally have travelled less distance to get to you, and will taste better. You can see what foods are in season in the UK at Eat The Seasons.
- Use a slow cooker – they use less energy than a hob or oven, and they make it easy to cook large batches. Amazon sell slow cookers from under £20.
- Only boil as much water as you need. If you’re making two mugs of tea, just measure two mugs of water into the kettle.
- Don’t buy bottled water. Water filter jugs work well and are much cheaper (especially if you change the filter every couple of months, rather than every month). Amazon have Britta filter jugs for under a tenner. An even cheaper way is to simply put a jug of tap water into the fridge – the colder the drink, the less you taste.
Any more tips you can recommend? Leave a comment and let us know!
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All good advice, I look forward to more advice in the future.
My best advice is to move all your credit card debt onto a 0% for transfers credit card.
Apparently the average Brit owes £8,400… I owed about £6,500 two years ago, I’m down to £700 now…
Some good tips here!
Heres a few more:
11. Always take advantage of buy one get one free and half offers.
12. Dont throw away bruised bananas, these are perfect for making into puree to add to a smoothie or something similar.
13. Buy things like Pasta and rice in bulk, they will never go off and they are cheaper when bought in large packs.
14. Avoid sugary drinks, not only are they unhealthy but things like cordials are a lot cheaper and last longer.
15. Buy frozen vegetables, large packs of brocolli and green beans are usually cheaper than fresh, they will last longer and there are no proven benefits of fresh veg over frozen.
Mostly we don’t care such tips and tricks but we always suffer then. I am not in favor to purchase packed food or bottled water and that is the big reason for me to save a lot of money. I think we should set our goals to save something. I always plan to save a handsome amount and I always be able to do that. Thanks for sharing your tips.
hell of a lot more interesting than what I was supposed to be searching for, (cant believe I’ve got to work on a sunday!) came across your site by accident really and gave the thumbs up on stumbleupon. Thanks for the diversion! bp.