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A student’s guide to supermarket shopping

Many students find themselves living away from home for the first time. When calculating your annual or monthly budget, your grocery expenditure can be one of the trickiest to estimate. And with so many supermarkets, convenience stores, pubs and cafes around, it can sometimes be the one that really drains your purse, without you even realising it.

In the same way that you and your flatmates work out the electricity and phone bills, set some time to work out your grocery bill together. Shopping in bulk is considerably better value than shopping for yourself. For example, a pack of 2 Tesco toilet rolls works out at 49p per roll, while a 12 pack is just 35p.

There’s a simple fact that the more often you go to the shops, the more you’ll buy and therefore spend. Avoid popping into local shops each day and get into a habit of making one big weekly shop from the comfort of your laptop. That way, you’ll avoid buying all those unnecessary extras that somehow slip into your basket every time you pop into a shop.

More and more shoppers are doing the supermarket run online. It’s quicker, easier, no queuing, no pushing around dodgy trolleys and no carrying heavy shopping. The service is excellent and delivery only costs a few quid. Best of all, mySupermarket will trim your bill down by up to 20% with its handy Price Checker, so you’ll spend less than you would’ve if you had gone to the supermarket yourself.

Stock up when long-life products you want are on offer. Only get tempted by special offers when you would buy them over time anyway – if you don’t normally buy frozen pizzas, don’t buy 2 just because they’re on offer. With mySupermarket, you’ll find all the Special Offers in one department so you can scan through them before you buy anything else.

Just because you’re a student, doesn’t mean that you have to give up all home comforts. Everyone has the brands that they’ll never swap like Diet Coke or Heinz ketchup. That said, for things that you’re not too bothered about, try trading down to the supermarket own brand or better still to the supermarket cheap range. For example, 80 PG Tips tea bags cost £1.52. ASDA’s own brand costs just 91p and ASDA Smartprice costs just 32p!

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A. Look out for grocery expenses: they may unbalance your budget!
B. Buy other brands, not just your favourites
C. Choose the offers that really suit your needs
D. Click on to mySupermarket.co.uk for the widest range of brands
E. Make large online shops
F. Shop at mySupermarket.co.uk every day of the week
G. Shop together to reduce expenditure
H. Use mySupermarket.co.uk because of its many advantages

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CLAVE DE RESPUESTAS
Example 0: A

1: G

2: E

3: H

4: C

5: B

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