Mum of four pays just £6 for £50 worth of shopping with money-saving tip – here’s how you can too
BUYING healthy groceries on a budget to feed your family can be tough, but one savvy shopper has proven it’s possible by landing 30 bags of fruit and veg for just £6.
Shelly Kelly, 41, from Leamington Spa who works as a carer and has four children aged 21, 15, 13 and nine, recently shared her massive haul.
She told money-saving community: “I picked up two Morrisons boxes using the Too Good To Go app and I’m very impressed.
Uploading a photo of everything she received laid out on her table at home, she said: “Don’t worry as nothing will go to waste - I will be sharing what I wouldn’t use with my friends.”
Going into further detail, Shelly revealed: “I picked up the boxes for £3.09 each from the app, so by paying £6.18 for 30 bags of fruit and veg I essentially only paid 20p for each item!
“The best bargain was that I got 13 punnets of strawberries, and the total price originally would have been £21.50 using the offers in-store.
“10 punnets were £1.65 each or 2 for £3, making the total price £15 with the offer, and the remaining 3 were £2.50 each or 2 for £4, so the total original price for those would have been £6.50.
“However, I only paid £2.60 of my £6.18 for these, saving £18.90 in the process!
“That would have been excellent value in itself, but the bargains didn’t stop there.
“I also got two large bags of pears, which would have cost £1.49 each originally but I only paid 40p for them.”
That means she saved £2.58 and got over 2kgs of pears for under 50p.
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Shelly added: “I also picked up two punnets of grapes, which were marked as £1.65 or 2 for £3 originally.
“If I had used the in-store offer to purchase these, I would have paid £2.60 more than I ended up handing over. I saved roughly the same amount on three punnets of plums, which would have been £1 each in-store but I only paid 60p for them.
“Those who don’t know about Too Good To Go can get started quickly and easily. Simply download the app on your smartphone and set your location. Then a list of shops in your selected area will appear and you can reserve any bags which are available.
“Your collection time will be shown and you will need to pick up your bag during this time slot. You can order as many bags as you like, as every purchase goes towards saving food from going to waste.”
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Contents of Shelly’s Too Good To Go Boxes
- 2 cauliflower heads - 95p each
- 2 bags of pears - £1.49 each
- 2 sweetheart cabbages - 59p each
- 2 grape selection boxes - £1.65 each or £2 for £3
- 4 blueberries boxes - £3 each
- 3 plum punnets - £1 each
- 10 Greengrocer strawberry punnets - £1.65 each or 2 for £3
- 3 Morrisons Best strawberry punnets - £2.50 or 2 for £4
- 1 pack of unwaxed lemons - £1
- Cucumber half - 49p
- £47.05 total value
- Paid £6.18
- Saved £40.87
Previously, a woman got an ASDA haul worth £674.85 for a fraction of the price including TEN Yankee candles and a Tommee Tippee kit.
And mums shared their epic discounted Tesco hauls – and how they bagged a few week’s worth of food on the cheap.