Supermarket savings
07/01/10 11:05
This approach to saving money on groceries will not be possible for everyone, but I know that my food bills have fallen significantly through having a veg box, supporting farm shops, being in a pig co-operative and topping up with treats at Waitrose.
Supermarket saving
A Suffolk couple with two children decided last New Year's Day not to set foot in supermarkets for a year. Instead, Grant and Shauna Hawthorne rented an acre of land for £150 to grow veg in Snailwell, Suffolk. They reared chickens and bought shares in livestock, cutting the weekly food spend from £160 to £50. A British Retail Consortium spokesman said: 'Around 90 per cent of people use supermarkets at least once a month but this family have demonstrated that they do not need to use them at all'.
The Daily Telegraph, Date: 07/01/2010, Page: 10 The Sun, Page: 25(7593657) Daily Mail, Page: 21(7596370)
Supermarket saving
A Suffolk couple with two children decided last New Year's Day not to set foot in supermarkets for a year. Instead, Grant and Shauna Hawthorne rented an acre of land for £150 to grow veg in Snailwell, Suffolk. They reared chickens and bought shares in livestock, cutting the weekly food spend from £160 to £50. A British Retail Consortium spokesman said: 'Around 90 per cent of people use supermarkets at least once a month but this family have demonstrated that they do not need to use them at all'.
The Daily Telegraph, Date: 07/01/2010, Page: 10 The Sun, Page: 25(7593657) Daily Mail, Page: 21(7596370)