Are you a smart grocery shopper? Simply take this online quiz to find out!

When grocery shopping, do you:

1. Arrive at the supermarket straight after work, with only the most vague of plans to buy something for dinner, only to find that the whole place is already a war-zone of yummy mummies fighting sweaty businessmen for the last bag of organic quinoa. You go home with whatever overpriced ready meal you can grab as you run screaming from the premises.
2. Go to the big retail park outside of town at the weekend. A shopping list in your filthy hand, you still leave with mounds of unnecessary impulse-purchased nonsense. You get home and sigh, and light one of your ten new scented candles to make yourself feel better.
3. Get your mum to do it for you because you’re a big fat waster and can’t do anything right. But at least the fridge is always full and there’s a never-ending supply of Twixes in the cupboard.
4. Do the Smart Thing, which instantly makes everyone impressed with you. Strangers smile at you in the street and men and women alike are attracted to your aura of intelligence.

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Alright, I’m sorry to be that guy but we are now in the season to be jolly. Or more skint and in debt than usual, however you want to look at it. Between work nights out, presents for family members and of course, just remaining in the festive spirit, this isn’t a time of year for tighter purse strings.

There are ways to keep things a little cheaper, a little more manageable at home, though. We can’t be frugal at this time of year but we can be creative.

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