I got up at 7am to do the food shop at Lidl and got 115 items for £3 | UK | News

Food shopping is an inevitable expense, and most of us are constantly looking for ways to save cash wherever possible. There are various methods to reduce the cost of your weekly foods, from creating grocery lists to select where you shop strategically.

As someone who has always been in a big hunting, journalist Ray Tonsell was excited to discover that Lidl offered a box of various fruits and vegetables for £ 1.50. These boxes offer a variety of ‘very good’ very good ‘at a significant price.

The reporter previously tried other food waste reduction attempts, including a very good Go to Go application that allows stores, cafes and restaurants to sell excess food at a much cheaper price.

According to Ray’s experience, these programs were generous and worth investing, so he was willing to test Lidl’s box.

He arranged his alarm to crack at 7 o’clock, hoping to hurry and avoid the selling boxes. Ray went to Lidl at Lime Street at 8.30, but a useful employee advised him to return within 45 minutes while still preparing fruit and vegetables, reports Liverpool Echo.

He was surprised to see that there was no one else waiting for the boxes.

While Ray was waiting, he decided to try his luck in Lidl on London Road, but he was informed that he had no boxes.

Although a staff of the boxes are usually present on a daily basis, they have made a big stock assessment the previous day, they sell about 20 boxes, which means that there is not much stock today.

However, most days, the boxes were sold around 8.30 in the morning, he said.

Ray returned to Lime Street around 9.15 hours when the boxes are ready. They had not yet been exhibited, but a staff remembered the reporter’s previous visit and took out two boxes for him.

Jorunalist added that if you don’t see a box exhibited, it is useful to control the employees twice.

He bought two boxes of £ 1,50 and brought the total shopping invoice to 3 £.

After receiving the boxes, Ray said he was amazed with the amount of product inside. Two boxes filled with various fruits and vegetables from apples to eggplant were too heavy to transport.

By examining the product more closely, he saw that all items were still fresh and most of them were fresh for a few days. A few substances, such as some peppers and zucchini, were smaller than normal stock and the eggplant was slightly worn.

Carrot was also smaller and some showed signs of use of rough, but they were still perfectly fresh and suitable for cooking.

The rest of the product was like he expected from any normal fruit and vegetable shops. Some peppers were quite large.

Apples and even bananas were perfectly mature.

Here is a casting of Ray in every box:

Box 1.

4 bananas.

6 red apples.

1 eggplant.

1 small pumpkin.

1 celery.

3 large peppers (red, orange and yellow).

About 20 small potatoes.

About 20 small carrots.

Box 2.

5 bananas.

6 green apples.

1 eggplant.

1 pumpkin.

5 peppers (various dimensions).

1 celery.

Approximately 20 potatoes (various sizes).

About 20 small carrots.

A generous part of green peppers.

Using Tesco’s website, Ray calculated that it would cost about £ 8.01 to buy the same elements from the first box.

The cost of the second box was around 11.84 £.

So for £ 3, he managed to wear food worth £ 20.

This does not take into account some of the smaller dimensions, but the reporter said he felt that he still provides large amounts of food for the spent. In addition, everything that is not used in the next few days can be placed in the freezer.

Ray said that exercise is the perfect way to encourage people not to refuse food – because it doesn’t look biggest or brightest.