A SAVVY saver has revealed how she feeds her family-of-three for just £11 a week.
Rosie, who is known online as ‘Money Saving Rosie’, is based in Cheshire and rather than buying her groceries from Aldi or Lidl, has decided to ditch the supermarkets.
Instead of weekly trips to Asda or Tesco, the brunette beauty now does her weekly shop at The Very Green Grocery, whose mission is to fight food waste whilst providing an affordable grocery shopping service for the community.
It is one of the community food shops across the country that work with supermarkets to get excess produce - but that is still before it's use by date.
Savvy saver Rosie, who has 18,000 followers on Facebook, took to social media to show off her epic haul - and you won’t believe how much she got for just £11.
Posting online, Rosie uploaded her clip with the caption ‘Join me on an affordable food shop. This is everything I got within the space of an hour, not bad!’
At the start of the short video, Rosie sat in her car prior to stocking her cupboards, as she said: “Come food shopping with me where we’ll hopefully spend about £10 on our weekly food shop.
“Today I’m going to two different initiatives, they operate on the same day.
“Both have volunteers that collect food that would’ve gone into landfill, that are surplus from supermarkets and manufacturers and get sent to these places and we get to buy it at a massively subsidised rate.”
Moments later, Rosie proudly showed off her purchases, which included a tomato pasta salad, originally from Morrisons, cooked chicken breasts from M&S and a microwave macaroni cheese from Sainsbury’s.
As well as this, she also got onions, potatoes, loads of shredded lettuce, avocado, roasting herbs, carrots, spring onions, celerity, tomatoes, corn on the cob and a green pepper.
She even got fruit too and was able to nab bananas, apples, oranges and lemons.
Not only was she lucky enough to get herself a bouquet of flowers, but she also got Yorkshire puddings, oats, a block of cheddar cheese, a plate of tasty sweet treats and focaccia.
But that’s not all, as this bargain hunter was even able to stock up on snacks, as she got pots of Pringles, a large pack of Coco Pops, croissants and pain au chocolat.
She even got a loaf of bread, two baguettes, an olive bloomer, two big bags of crisps and a tub of Twiglets, as well as protein bars, a Swiss roll and a variety of pizzas.
To top off the haul, Rosie also got some soft drinks too, including a pack of Coca Cola Zero and an orange juice.
Thrilled with her bargains, Rosie beamed: “This all came to £11 and what a crime that all of this would have been thrown in the bin or gone in landfill.
“Instead, it’s benefitting the community.”
Rosie later penned: “For clarity, this isn’t food meant for the food bank, this is a completely separate entity.
“This isn’t taking food away from the vulnerable in the community.
“If anything, I could have taken more! This is open to anyone.”
Facebook users react
Rosie’s clip has clearly left many open-mouthed, as it has quickly amassed 849,000 views, 9,400 likes and 852 comments.
Facebook users were stunned with her cheap haul and many eagerly flocked to the comments to express this.
One person said: “This is great! There’s loads of places all over the country, you’ve just got to do your homework in your area.”
Another added: “You go girl, feeding your family well on a budget.”
A third commented: “I would love to have one of these, it would be so much cheaper.”
Despite this, at the same time, one woman slammed: “So basically you don't need to buy that but your gunna take it out of the mouths of people who do.”
But to this, Rosie clapped back and confirmed: “Babe, what are we implying here? That I went to a foodbank or a community facility and took all the food like some Grinch?
“It’s a community (that means everyone, by the way) shop that allows you to buy food that doesn’t even make it to the food bank.
“We buy it at a massively subsidised rate. What I took wasn’t even all of my allocation, so can you imagine how much you can take? It’s nuts isn’t it."
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