Supermarket budget

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Hi all, I’m looking to reduce our weekly supermarket expense and needs tips. I shop in Tesco as it’s nearest. I get food, cat litter and food, toiletries, cleaning things, loo roll, alcohol etc from there and am spending £130 a week (on a week when I do not get vouchers to reduce the cost). We are a family of 2 adults working from home, a teenager an almost teenager and a cat. We rarely eat out so this covers all meals and I do not pop out and get any extra mid week. I already try to buy own brand as much as possible but when I have looked online there are suggestions that I should be able to spend a lot less weekly. How do people do this? So any tips would be appreciated. Thanks.

Own brand sanitary products are much cheaper and just as good e.g. tampax. A mooncup saves a bit..despite the initial cost.

As previous poster suggested...look for the yellow stickers reduced items. I always go to this section first and stock up the freezer each month. After this I shop mostly daily buying only what we need for that day. It only takes about 10mins out of my day but stops me buying too much and cuts down on food waste. The other thing I do is use cash. I'll roughly work out how much that days shopping will come to then withdraw that amount from the cash machine e.g if I think it'll be £8, I'll withdraw a tenner. It really does stop me impulsive buying. I keep a record of each days spend as well so that I can keep track. When I was using my debit card willy nilly I had no idea what I was spending!

Have a look at claires journey, a family of four she does 35 pound a week budget

https://www.youtube.com/c/ClairesJourney/videos