20 ways to reduce your budget.

1. Meal prep

2. Eat leftovers

3. Nothing gets wasted, no throwing away food - make use of it

4. The Pantry challenge

5. Don’t replenish pantry items till completely empty

6. Choose the store brand

7. Only go to the shop once a week

8. Stretch Stretch one meal - turn one meal into two settings e.g. make enough lasagne for two seatings

9. Limit or eliminate takeaways

10. Eat less meat

11. Survive on one income

12. Go down to one car

13. Find free entertainment - walks, parks

14. Picnics

15. Always carry packed snacks for the children

16. Adopting a minimalism lifestyle

17. Only purchase something after keeping it in your basket for a minimum 24hrs, see if you still need it

18. Budget!

19. If you buy bottled water, look at getting a filter

20. Zero based budget

21. Fakeaways

22. Save first before spending on luxuries

23. No spend months

24. Every little saving still going to savings/debt

25. Listening to podcasts and youtube

26. Reading books

27. Never purchasing on emotionally fuelled or low mood days

28. Not upgrading phone contracts

29. Sim only phone contracts

30. Saying no thank you to some family and friend events

31. Not buying presents for all celebrations (I don’t buy cards!)

32. Money limits on birthday or christmas presents

33. Upcyle or get freebies instead of buying new things

34. Keeping an eye on lifestyle creep

35. Girls night in, Indoor date nights

36. Store made pizza £3.50 instead of Dominos £10 minimum

37. Home made burgers and fries

38. Giving

39. Live below your means