Ishtar Darlington
Now, while the shop pictured above wasn’t particularly cheap (I just thought the name was very funny), you can definitely pick up some budget buys on the supermarket shelves if you look carefully enough.
One way is to go straight for the reduced to clear section where you’ll find all their food that’s nearly at its sell-by date at a discounted price. More than likely, this produce will be in the skip the following day so, if you don’t mind waiting, refer to part 1 on dumpster diving. If you don’t feel like wading through waste though, this section of the supermarket’s shelves is the next best thing. Make sure to put everything you buy from here into the fridge, or a cool place, and give it a little smell before eating to check it’s still fresh.
Aside from the reduced to clear shelves, you’ll often find supermarkets that run meal deals and, while a lot of them aren’t actually that cheap when you analyse them, sometimes you can grab yourself a good bargain. Also, keep an eye out for the discount supermarket chains Aldi and Lidl which can be found all over Europe and even America now too. They keep their prices low by working so that, instead of paying their suppliers straight away, they put all their takings into a high interest savings account and then, when it’s time to pay up, they just skim the interest off the top as profit. Boring stuff for me and you maybe, but it results in us getting our shopping at little more than cost value.
