The woman regularly shares money-saving tips to her thousands of followers on social media. She recently shared a clip of herself buying her usual weekly shop, demonstrating how she keeps her costs down.
We’re all on the lookout for ways to save money on our everyday essentials. One woman has wowed people by showing how she bought a whole week’s worth of food for her family of four for an incredibly low price.
The woman, known as frugal866 on TikTok, where she has more than 31,000 followers, regularly shares money-saving tips. She recently shared a clip of herself buying her usual weekly shop at a branch of Asda, demonstrating how she keeps her costs down.
She kept her bill low by buying the cheapest items available, as well as by browsing the reduced section. All the items she selected were in Asda’s budget Just Essentials range, and included a number of things which could be used to make multiple meals.
Here’s what she bought:
- Stick of garlic bread
- Cheese and tomato snack pizza
- 15 cheesy slices
- Six scotch pancakes from the reduced section
- Pasta shapes
- Mild curry sauce
- Tomato ketchup
- Tomato soup 55p
- Tuna chunks in brine
- Four packets of chicken flavour instant noodles
- A bag of bananas
- New potatoes
- Carton of skimmed long life milk
- Two meat and potato pies
- 20 frozen sausages
- Self-raising flour
- Peach slices
She added some tips while selecting her shopping. While picking up the carton of milk, she said: “Never buy fresh milk, always long life because it lasts, and lasts for ages.”
And, while picking up a bag of flour, she said: “So, I never buy cakes, I always buy flour to make my cakes myself. So much cheaper that way.”
She finished by showing her complete shop, which contained some items she had not shown herself picking up, including a loaf of bread with a reduced sticker on it, and a tin of baked beans. Asked how much the total was, she revealed it had cost just £33.
People added their own money-saving tips in the comments. One said: “A lot of things that are packaged as yellow label are probably the same as the other stuff they sell at higher prices. Supermarkets have been doing this for years. A friend worked at a chicken factory and the same chickens went to cheaper shops and some to the expensive shops.”
Replying to this, another said: “Absolutely right! I worked at a cheese factory years ago and it was all the same cheese just different prices for different shops!!!”
Someone else wrote: “Places like Aldi do the super 5. I would plan what you want to eat throughout the week… then work backwards…
“I was in Aldi this week and actually some of their own products are more expensive than brand. Go to Waitrose and M&S their yellow sticker stuff is really good and the products have less preservatives in them – I don’t begrudge people buying these products like pasta etc… but the pre-made sauces are nasty.”
And a different user wrote: “Tomato soup, garlic and a dash of cream cheese makes a good cheap skate pasta sauce.” And another said: “It’s not being a cheapskate, it’s called survival in 2026.”
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