How to save hundreds of euro a year on your grocery shopping

Hint: Arm yourself with lists and use basic arithmetic to slash your annual food shopping bill 

When grocery shopping, preview weekly offers online and tailor them to those meal plans or mark them out as pantry fillers, before you leave home. Pictures: iStock

The cost of living continues to soar, and with that comes an unsettling sense of financial helter-skelter. When you go grocery shopping, take back a measure of that precious control, developing a greater understanding of the jungle you’re nosing your way through with the trolley week in, week out.

The blithe, impulse buys and wasted foodstuffs piled into the brown bin — it’s unsustainable. We can’t afford that now, and honestly we never could.