Go on a diet; save money.

Bad eating habits can be quite costly. The quickest way to save money on your food bill is to start cutting unnecessary items out. Examples of this are quite obvious, such as chocolate, biscuits, pastries, ice cream and other junk foods. Not only are the majority of these easier to make it home from scratch from the point of view of the budget but they are also small items that you don't think about when you're putting in your basket. They are cheap enough that we fall into the habit of justifying it as a cheap luxury. However if you are spending, say two pounds a week, on biscuits that can add up to over £100 a year. The same logic applies to all regularly bought junk food. Pizza, for example, is very cheap to make at home. From scratch it may cost maybe a pound, including home-made base. From the store, even a cheap pizza will cost you up to 3 pounds. More expensive pizzas will cost you upwards of seven pound. Even one pizza a week over the year will cost anywhere from £150-£370 depending entirely on the price of the pizza you buy every week.


Luxuries are a good thing to have in our diet, but we fall into the trap of eating them too often. I find by cutting them out, that I enjoy them far more when I do eat them. By cutting out a lot of the junk food items and not overeating I have effectively halved my food bill.