A Luton woman is saving £400-a-month by giving up takeaway coffees, clothes shopping and getting her nails done.
Lauren Napper, 30, says she's always been conscious about saving money after it was drilled into her from a young age not to be frivolous with her spending.
After buying a house in September, 2021, Lauren realised she wasn't saving and often found herself living paycheck to paycheck.
In December 2023, Lauren realised her lifestyle needed to change and she implemented changes to save money – including shopping at charity shops, not going out for food and doing bulk shopping.
Lauren Napper, 30, says she's always been conscious about saving money after it was drilled into her from a young age not to be frivolous with her spending.
After buying a house in September, 2021, Lauren realised she wasn't saving and often found herself living paycheck to paycheck.
In December 2023, Lauren realised her lifestyle needed to change and she implemented changes to save money – including shopping at charity shops, not going out for food and doing bulk shopping.
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00:00Come and do a food shop with me at Aldi as a single 30-year-old who cooks for herself
00:05and manages to keep her food shop bill under £140 a month.
00:10So if you want to find out what I buy and what sort of meals I cook as a single person
00:15then this video and my content might be for you.
00:18I do love doing an Aldi shop, I think that some of the things that they do differently
00:22than other supermarkets is they have specials on
00:25and they actually do things quite a bit cheaper than anywhere else.
00:29I do sometimes pop into Asda or into an M&S if I'm feeling bougie
00:35because I do like some of the stuff that they do but this is what I have spent at Aldi this week.
00:40It was £42 for this amount of stuff,
00:45doesn't actually feel like a lot there but there was quite a lot of meat which I will show you.
00:49Always essentials, I love spring onions and bananas.
00:53I always have a banana for breakfast if I'm kind of running out of the door
00:57and strawberries and broccoli, I love tender stem broccoli so much
01:01and then I just wanted to like stock up on onions and potatoes and stuff like that
01:06because I was running low on all of that stuff.
01:10I do already have a few bits in my freezer.
01:12I bought a ready-made sort of joint of beef from M&S on Sunday because that was reduced
01:18and then I have some meatballs and sausages as well but this is what I bought.
01:22I love this butter chicken kebab thing, chicken sausages, always a staple,
01:30cod fillets which I'll be having with mashed potato tonight.
01:33I always have coconut milk in my coffee so I like to stock up on that as well.
01:40These are the best, they're so much nicer than normal Pringles and cheaper as well.
01:46I like a crumpet for breakfast, I like muffins for my lunch,
01:50I love those crisps as well, avocados are a staple in my house,
01:55cheese, onions, grapes, strawberries, broccoli, potatoes, bananas and spring onions as well.
02:05I'll get like 10 days to two weeks worth of meals out of those bits that I've bought
02:10as well as the bits I bought from M&S the other day which I shared in another video.
02:13I will do chicken sausage pasta, I will do bangers and mash from the sausages
02:18that were in the freezer that I bought last time.
02:21That chicken kebab is so good, it does take a while to cook in the oven but it's from frozen
02:27so that's why I will do kind of like a Greek pitta sort of situation with chips, you know, tasty.
02:35Tonight I'm having baked cod with mashed potato and tender stem broccoli and then I'll freeze
02:41the other bit of cod to have next week. Those chicken pieces I'll just kind of
02:46have in like chicken wraps as well and then also I bought potatoes because I'm going to have a roast
02:51with the bit of beef that I bought from M&S in the reduced section that I mentioned in the video as
02:57well. So there's quite a lot of things there for me to eat this week as a single person and honestly
03:05I spend probably like 70 quid max for about two weeks, can't go wrong really.