1. Buy from the pick-your-own isles
2. Go to market
3. Shop Online
4. Avoid ready meals
5. Buy vitamins in bulk
6. Buy cheap and healthy meats
1. Make a list
Don’t spend that extra pound or two on packaging, go straight to the fruit and veg isles and pick you 5 a day yourself. It will save you money and the tendency to over buy!
2. Go to market
One way to beat the supermarkets - that is, to eat healthily for less - is to use your local market stall. Lower overheads should mean lower prices. At the time of writing, cherries were on sale in Asda for £2.99 for 400g, the equivalent at the local market was going for just over £1.
Saving: £100+
3. Shop Online
Most supermarkets have a website shop where the entire catalog of goods are available online. This save effort, energy and time and resists the temptation to buy additional goods on sight in store. Bit beware – watch out for
4. Bin the ready meals
If TV chefs such as Ainsley Harriott can knock up a meal from a bag of random groceries including an aubergine and a packet of sultanas – so can you. Ready meals may be convenient, but preparing your own food saves money. A visit to your library will reveal scores of books dedicated to cooking proper meals in minutes.
5. Buy vitamins in bulk
It's cheaper to buy in bulk and get a lower per-unit cost. Buy larger packets of vitamins and minerals as well as protein shakes and energy boosters. But beware of buying too much of a product that will not last – it's not a bargain if you have to throw it away.
6. Buy cheap and healthy meats
Turkey is half the cost of some red meats and compared to the mass consumption of Chicken in the UK, Turkey and Ostrich, e two leanest meats on the market are largely underused and overlooked in their gut-busting abilities.