Hi everyone! So first of all I hope you're
staying safe during these challenging times
and staying healthy as well. My name is sophia
and I'm here today to give you some great tips for how to make the most of
your groceries and save money.
Personally because of the Coronavirus pandemic I've had to
move back to my parents place to here, in Finland again. I will be
returning back to aberdeen in the Autumn and I'm already
looking forward to it so yeah, hope you enjoyed the video. So my first
step is to kind of carefully consider the shop
that you're going to go to. For the ones who are not familiar with
the UK or Scotland or haven't been to aberdeen ever before
there are maybe four shops you could consider going to.
There's Lidl that's close to Hillhead
so the place many freshers are usually staying at
and Morrisons, Asda, and then there's a big
Tesco shop as well but that's quite close to the airport so
unless you have a car you probably wouldn't be driving
up there. Personally I've been walking to Asda
most of the times, and that's just because
I find Asda cheaper than Morrisons. And I would like to go to Lidl
but um the thing is that I can't have any dairy products and
Lidl's selection of dairy-free yogurts and milks
is very limited, whereas the selection in Asda is really good. Also I really
like Asda's fruit and veg selection, so yeah that's why I've been
going there. So my next step is to um try use
cheaper brands of the shops themselves, for example Morrisons they've got
that 'savers' brand and Asda has 'smart price'
so the products from those brands are usually a lot cheaper than
the other ones, but you can also sometimes you can really notice it in
quality as well. Especially with oats, I like to have my
not every day, but I like to have porridge for breakfast
quite often, so I buy the Asda smart price oats
because I don't think they're much different from the more expensive ones
but they are a lot cheaper, so I just try to like
mix up things and try out those cheaper brands as well. My next tip is related to
the price per kilogram of a certain product,
especially with meat. Also with um for example rice, I try to compare the
prices per kilogram. It usually says that in the
tag attached to the shelf that you have. This is also why buying in bulk
is often a lot cheaper than buying those smaller packages that might be student
friendlier because you might not eat that much but try to
buy the bigger package and meal prep that's what I really like to do.
My following tip is related to fruit and veg. So um personally what I
like to do is buy those loose ones instead of the ones that are
packed in a bigger plastic package um first of all because it's more
eco-friendly and considers the environment more so I'd rather
take those single ones, and also for example um bell peppers
you might get a red one, a yellow one and then a green one
um I don't always eat the green ones, so instead I would buy
maybe two red ones single ones and just have them in that separate um
package. So yeah and also you might consider
buying frozen veg, for example Morrisons, I know they
have a great um stir fry veg mixed bag.
Moving on, freezing especially meat. Try to do it if you for example end up buying a
bigger package instead of a smaller one because the
price per kilogram in that of that bigger package is
less than the price of that a smaller one. So yeah try to do that
um really often it even says in the package itself if you can freeze it or
not. So you don't you don't have to know much
about freezing things, as long as you can read the label
um behind the package. Also buying um frozen meat that's something I know some
people like to do. Personally I prefer freezing my own meat
but yeah that's something you can consider as well.
My next tip is to check the reduced
price shelf at the shop, no matter where you go, because they will
have one. I've gotten reduced meat for example
so many times and it has saved me a lot of money
and what you can do even though it will be a bigger package you just buy the
bigger one and then you freeze whatever you have remaining.
It's not a problem so rather buy a bigger package and then
freeze it if you're not gonna have all of it. My next tip is quite relevant
to the current situation and it is to check out the websites
of the different shops. and you can for example use Asda
delivery. I think there might be a really long queue
to them right now unfortunately, but of course you can
use them later on as well, so yeah not just
for this current moment. Also you can check whether
a certain shop has a product that you're looking for
for example I mentioned that stir fry veg
frozen bag from Morrisons earlier. I know that Asda doesn't
really have anything similar in frozen food so
uh yeah that's something you might might want to consider.
Thank you so much for watching watching. Those were my tips for now
I hope you really liked the video.
and got something out of it. Remember remember remember to wash your
hands, use the sanitizer, keep distance to others while you're
shopping right now and not necessarily just right now but
also with washing your hands try to do it in
general as well it's not just the coronavirus that you can
catch from the grocery store.
right now so um yeah do that and also remember if you for
example have your grandma or a
neighbor who you know would not be wanting to
go to the shop themselves right now, you can always go
there for them ask if they need something whatever
and yeah just take care of yourselves and take care of each other
And yeah maybe I'll see you later in another video
Bye again, thank you for watching!
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