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Now You Can Save Money At The Supermarket by Mark Aucamp All too often we return home from a shopping expedition and we are shocked at how much we have just spent. Here are a few money saving tips to help you control your grocery costs. The thrifty, the bargain hunters and the frugal shoppers all know these tips and they use them everyday to save hundreds of pounds a year. Sixteen Ways to save money 1. Never go shopping without a list of what you need and do not be tempted to deviate from your list. 2. Always look for discount vouchers, promotional codes or free coupons in your local newspapers or otherwise go online and search for discount vouchers or coupons and print them off. Consider using a supermarket price comparison sites to see where the best prices are. 3. Whatever you do don't take your children shopping as you will probably find it really hard to say no when they ask for something by them. They will end up costing you more at the till which will increase your shopping bill. 4. Consider having your supermarket shopping delivered, it's a great way of ordering what you actually need to maintain your weekly budget. If you look on their websites you will often see a free home delivery voucher or coupon worth £5.00. 5. Ready made meals are less nutritious than a meal cooked from fresh ingredients and produce and they are healthier for you. The internet is the biggest cookbook available anywhere in the world. Youtube have thousands of recipes that are demonstrated on video that show you how to boil an egg or cook a Beef Casserole. 6. Local farm shops and local butchers; our local Farm shop sells half a Lamb for £20 and half a Pig for £30 they are already frozen ready for the freezer. What a bargain! Amazing value if you have a freezer. 7. Consider using the supermarkets own-brand products rather than their premium brands as they are often the same or similar quality as the branded products but without the brand name and price tag. 8. When did you last go shopping at you local town market? The food is generally cheaper and fresher from your local market as they have lower overheads and can therefore pass on the savings to you. 9. Use the discount supermarkets like Ads, Aldi and Lidl. Big saving are here to be made. No need to worry about shopping here; the food is quality and the car park is full of expensive cars, which suggests that everybody is now shopping here - rich or poor were are all looking to save money on our shopping. 10. Always ask yourself the BIG QUESTION "Do I really need that product or service?" 11. Always consider alternatives. Don't be enticed to buy the special offers like, buy-one-get-one-free promotions or the 30% off discount offer. It's not a bargain if you don't need it in the first place. All products are priced with a profit margin by the retailers and a bargain or an offer is either priced to get rid of stock quickly or it is used for promotions. 12. If you use Tesco's or Sainsbury's then I would recommend you obtain one of their loyalty cards. Over the course of a year you can accumulate many hundreds of loyalty points on these cards. 13. Believe me when I say it's great to go shopping and pay using your loyalty card. I currently have over £95 available to spend on my Sainsbury's card. Whilst Tesco regularly send me £12.50 to £27.50 depending on the amount of shopping I have done in their store. They also give out 5p off a liter of petrol which can save you money. Most supermarkets have loyalty cards. 14. Other ideas to consider are "best before date" these are foods and product that have passed their best before date. There is nothing wrong with the food or products. They are extremely cheap to buy and represent good value for money. 15. Bargain hunters and frugal shoppers know that supermarkets have shelves where they offer products at a discount. Here you can find clearance lines, short-dated, out-of-date stock and produce about to go-out-of-date. My son and his girlfriend live off the cheap shelves when they are fending for themselves. I've told them they cannot feed a family from these shelves. He then tells us that it only cost him £18.28 to feed himself for a week. These shelves tend to full up at around 8pm in the evening. 16. If you are on a very tight budget then consider using the self-check-out-tills. They allow you to scan all you're shopping through the till yourself and you can see how much shopping you have bought and it allows you to control how much you buy. This prevents any embarrassment of going through a till with a big queue and finding you don't have enough money and you have to ask to remove some of your shopping. So there you have it a plan to beat the supermarkets at their own game. I understand that most of us will not implement all these procedures but we can start with a few and build on it. The reward is money savings each week which will turn into hundreds of pounds a year © Mark Aucamp is the Editor and Author of Money Saving Tips, he regularly provides money solutions and Advice about price comparison sites, discount vouchers and free coupons and much more. Mark has extensive knowledge and experience in providing Debt Management Help and Remortgage advice and solutions. Visit my website at => http://moneysavingtips.net

 

 

 

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