Save at home and the checkout
by LiveLighter,
- November 3, 2022
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- Families
- Healthy eating
- Top Tips
- Make your own
- Cooking
- Shopping
- Fruit and Vegetables
- Meal Plan
- Budget Friendly
- Smart Swaps
- Recipe Ideas
- Sustainability
With the cost of living rising and grocery prices soaring, many of us are feeling the pinch on our regular trips to the supermarket.
To help ease household budgets, we’ve put together our top tips on how to eat well without breaking the bank.
$100 food shop
If you’re looking to save money on your next supermarket shop, check out our healthy trolley that feeds a family of four.
That’s breakfast, lunch, and dinner for only $100! Now that’s what we call getting #Morebangforyourbuck
For more money saving tips at home and the checkout download our free e-booklet.
Single serve savings!
Convenience foods have been a game changer for our busy lives. The only problem is these foods often come with a premium price tag.
Have you been looking for a way to save on your grocery shop, while keeping the convenience?
These make-your-own single-serve oats will help you to get the best of both worlds and get #Morebangforyourbuck!
Save at the checkout
Beat the price rise and save!
With the costs of our everyday groceries climbing higher and higher it can feel like a real challenge to maintain a healthy, balanced trolley without breaking the bank.
Check out these 6 money-saving tips to help you shop healthy and save at the checkout.
Fresh vs alternatives
Frozen, dried, canned and bottled fruit and veg are nutritious, convenient, and often cheaper than fresh.
And because they keep for much longer, they can help us reduce food waste, giving you more bang for your buck!
Check out some of our favourite ways to add frozen, canned and dried fruit and veg to your everyday meals.
Healthy eating basics
Eating well means having a wide variety of foods, mostly from the 5 core food groups:
- Vegetables
- Fruit
- Grains and cereals
- Meat and alternatives
- Dairy and alternatives
Check out our tips on how to eat a nutritious and well-balanced diet while on a budget.
Plan your meals
Meal planning is great for the wallet, saves times, and gives you the most bang for your buck as it reduces wastage. Check out our free healthy meal plans!
3-2-1 meal plans: A weekly plan of healthy dinner recipes you can mix and match to suit you.
Family meal plans: Fuss-free plans to help your household eat well. There are 4 to choose from!
Cheap eats
When the cost of living is increasing and prices are on the rise, we sometimes need to get a little bit creative with our culinary creations to continue to eat a healthy, balanced diet without breaking the bank!
To help you continue making healthy, delicious meals for your family, we’ve put together some of our best wallet-friendly recipes with only a handful of ingredients.
Work lunches
Packing your own lunch for work is a great way to save money, and helps you avoid the temptation of ordering greasy takeaway and adding more single-use containers to landfill.
It doesn’t get easier than packing some leftovers or a sandwich, a piece of fruit and a handful of nuts if you’re looking for a healthy, no-nonsense work lunch.
Eat more plants
Are you one of the 1 in 4 Aussies looking to eat more plant-based foods and less animal products?
Including more plants in your diet is good for your health, your wallet, and the planet, and lots of Australians are going flexitarian (making a conscious decision to eat less meat) to reap these rewards.
Here are six strategies to get more plant foods into your day.
Soup-er savings
Not sure what to do with the lonely vegetables left in your crisper at the end of the week?
Get more bang for your buck and turn them into a satisfying and nourishing bowl of soup!
Check out our bank of delicious soup recipes. We’ve got creamy vegetable, spicy pumpkin, and loads more to choose from.
Plant-based diets
A growing number of Aussies are trying to reduce their intake of animal foods, and there are a lot of good reasons why.
This blog takes a deep dive into why a plant-based diet has been coined a golden diet for the planet, health, and your bank account.
Root to leaf cooking
Get more bang for your buck out of your fruit and vegies with our root-to-leaf cooking top tips.
Lots of us throw away perfectly good bits of fruit and vegies all the time! Here’s how to use the whole veg… root to leaf.
Tips to shop smart and save!
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