10 Ways to Save Money

1) Spend less on food but continue eating the things you love.

Freebies, coupons, trials, reduced items & smart shopping can all reduce your food bills here are a few tips:
Always do a quick two minute search for coupons before going to the supermarket, you can save a fortune with the right vouchers.
Learn when food is reduced to clear aka the lowest ever price at your local supermarket/corner shops, *cough* roughly 7.30 to 9pm *cough*.
Generally you should never buy small packs/bottles of anythingthat you use often (as long as the price is cheaper per 100g/100ml with the bigger packs). E.g. Tea, coffee, rice, noodles, pasta, cereal, biscuits, oil, bottled drinks, cleaning liquids etc. Learn more about bulk buying.
The NHS tells us that “Best before dates are about quality, not safety. When the date is passed, it doesn’t mean that the food will be harmful, but it might begin to lose its flavour and texture.” – So where do you think all of that food goes?The answer is simple, online supermarkets. The largest and most popular online supermarket. They sell bulk products that are all past their best before dates, you will save a fortune buying from them.
Only go to corner shops, express shops etc if you really have to or just need to pick up 1 or 2 items.
Always compare prices and in your head roughly know how much certain items should cost.
Where can I buy bulk food from? Most supermarkets offer it however be sure to also only buy when it’s on offer, no point buying it at full price if you’re going to store it for a few months anyway!
Learn how to cook on the cheap, you will be amazed at how simple things can save you a fortune.
If you’ve been treated unfairly or felt embarresed tell the supermarket/shop etc. Learn more about how complaining can pay.

2) Price glitches – computer/human errors that lead to massive price reductions.

Price glitch at Tesco’s, giving 1p Lindor chocolate & Cadbury mini eggs.
Take advantage of price glitches, these are rare but when you find one you will save an absolute fortune, also 9/10 you can buy and sell for a huge profit.
How do I find price glitches?
Now that you’ve liked this page you will receive regular updates on the latest glitches, these will appear on your timeline.
The next best way to find them is find out when promotions are ending in store and new ones are starting. For instance 3 wine bottles for £12 promotion is currently on but is ending today, a new promotion giving 25% off all wine is starting tomorrow, if you time it perfectly both promotions may be running at the same time. Giving you 3 bottles for £7.51.
Just follow our Facebook page to see the all the best glitches + read this to learn more about how price glitches work.

3) Do simple things and get paid – ideal extra income – but not an alternative to a day job!

Like music? How about being paid to listen to it? Simply listen to 90 second tracks and write a few words about them.You will make up to £30 a month doing it and it’s easy.
Companies want your opinions and will pay you for them. Anywhere from 10p to £50 a survey, lasting between 1 minute and 3 hours.
Rent out your spare items, from clothes to parking spaces. Read more about renting out your stuff.
Setup a YouTube account and make £170,000 a year Read more about how YouTube can be a viable ‘job’.
Complete tasks for money
Test websites for cash

4) Free stuff – From beer to cakes, phone contracts to cinema tickets we’ve had it all

105 free bottles of beer delivered to your house. Offer now finished. Original post.
How do I find freebies?
There are lots of places to find freebies, from magazines to twitter but we post all the good ones on our page.
How do I avoid giving my details getting to the wrong people?
Use alias details, i.e. fake name, phone number & secondary email address (one that you don’t use regularly). Learn more about Alias emails
You will need to use your real home address but using an alias name will ensure you always know when post is actually for you and not just someone trying to sell you something.
All of our members have had the opportunity to get the following freebies:
Free Alcohol – 105 Carlings, 8 San Miguels, Free Jack Daniels, Scotish Whiskey bottles, 16 cans of Grolsch, 8 cans of IPA, bottle of crabbies & a few more!
Free meals out, including TGI Fridays (£23), Zizzi Pizzas (£9), Pizza Hut (£5), BHS fish and chip dinner (£5), 12 x Krispy Kremes (£7+) & loads more.
Vouchers £5 eBay, £10 eBay, £5 Amazon, £5 HMV, Ann Summers £5, £20 Dwell vouchers & £10 Argos among others.
Free Cinema – Loads of different films including TED, Fast Girls & loads more this month alone (normally 2 per month, so say £5 to £12 a film).
Free travel insurance (£15), rail travel (up to £60) & taxi travel (£10).
Free perfume (£60), shampoo (£20), conditioner (£10), moisturiser (£15), BB cream, literally everything and anything.
Free Fathers, Mothers & completely custom greeting cards. (£4 a time, had multiple times)
Free Hotel Chocolat (worth up to £77), Thorntons premium easter eggs for 1p (£15), Domestos bleech (£1.50), free toothpaste (£20), free crisps (£5), free food boxes (£100), 88 plastic cups delivered (£80), Dettol hand cleaners, couscous & loads more.
Free burger
Completely free meal at TGI fridays – Total cost £26, we walked away paying £0.

4) Back up your life – If it doesn’t save you money it will save you time & remember time is money 

Have you ever lost a phone? Had a computer stolen? Or just had something stop working that you really needed
Back up your computer to an external hard drive – This will save expensive repair bills just to retreive that missing file.Full article on how to back up your computer.
Back up your camera photos – Saves you having to visit Australia again because you lost all your photos!Buy a cheap USB memory stick and put all your photos on to it.
Back up your phone & all the contacts – Stops everyone hating you on Facebook when you lose your phone for the 5 time this year.
Back up your brain by writing things down, ideally on to a device that automatically syncs with your computer.This will save you time & therefore money.
Back up plan for your car – Make sure you’ve got something to keep you warm, fed & safe.Full article on how to back up your car.

Top Student iPhone, iPad or iPod touch apps to save time (& therefore money)
Sleep Cycle – Measures your sleeping patterns & wakes you up when you are in the lightest sleep.
Evernote – Store notes on the cloud, access from anywhere
iStudiezPro – Organise your student life on this – deadlines, meetings etc – A Must Have!
Wikipanion – Keep the whole of wikipedia on your phone, no need to access internet.
Photoshop Express – An aweseome free app that allows photograph editing on your device.

5) Play games for money (fun & can be a real profit machine)

It sounds strange that buying something can save or even make you money but it’s 100% true.
Play Xbox or PS3 games for cash – against similar skilled players.
Update: The website that did this has stopped.
Play video games and upload them to YouTube etc Read more about how you can use YouTube to make a part time living.
Play games and live stream to Twitch

6) You’ve got to be in it to win it!

Enter as many competitions as possible – remember somebody has to win.
In the past, members of this group have won:
Tickets to Leeds, Reading & VFestival. Holidays to Amsterdam, Greece and Spain.
Massive boxes of goodies from Durex, Kettle Chips, Skittles, Stella Artois, Lucozade, McCain & Heniz.
£500 New look voucher, £30 Amazon vouchers, iPhone, £5 shopping vouchers.
We post all the latest competitions on the timeline so be sure to keep checking it
Free flights across the world
Various games consoles
Enough free food/drink to keep a small army going
Enough Nandos vouchers that it’s effectively a black card

7) Compare prices on everything & NEVER pay the full RRP price

We’ve been doing this for the past few years and we’ve significantly saved so much money.
Car insurance – Get at least two comparison searches under your belt.- Find prices on largest non-comparison sites.- Cut out the middle man and go direct.- See if you can claim any cashback on your deal.
Compare food prices, never go in blind, even if you just jot down the rough price of certain items to avoid being ripped off.For instance 1 week in Tesco a bag of Spinach was 50p, then £1 & finally £1.50 all within 2 weeks. £1.50 is a complete rip off and if it’s £1 cheaper at Asda then it’s worth the 2 minute walk to pick it up from there.
Shop on Amazon? Follow this simple guide to reducing your Amazon spends.

8) Learn about matched betting & then do it as many times as possibl

Many online bookmakers offer a signup bonus usually a free bet, as an incentive to try and entice you to opening an account with them. This usually requires an initial bet with your own money to obtain the free bet, by using a betting exchange such as Betfair you can remove the risk of losing your own money and extract the free bet in the process to make a profit.
This is done using a technique called matched betting, by backing or betting an event at a bookmaker and laying (betting against) the same event at a betting exchange it is possible to extract free bets to guarantee a profit.
Remember this technique is almost like printing money BUT if you get it wrong you can lose big!
Learn more about matched betting.

9) Sort out all your stuff, use the hanger technique & sell the rest on.

Get all your stuff out and have a well deserved sort, you need to start off by sorting into 5 piles:
Stuff to throw in bin
Paperwork that needs further sorting
Stuff that is worth obvious money (phones, games, textbooks, DVD’s, jewellery, etc)
Stuff that might be worth something to a charity shop (accessories, bags, books, clothing, crockery, games, films, music, shoes, and toys)
Stuff that you need/want to keep

10) Help others out & spread the message.

If you ever see a freebie, deal, glitch, competition etc please message us with it or post it on the Facebook wall, this enables us & all the other students to see it and take advantage of it.
Send your friends along to the page, if they get a free case of beer or save hundreds of pounds, we’re sure they will return the favour
Good at writing or just want to get something published? Create an awesome article and send it to us, if it gets published we will pay
Lots of you message us saying thank you etc, well you can buy us a drink.

10 Ways to Get your Kids Eating more Vegetables and Fruit

How to feed our kids more vegetables is a hot topic not just at home but also among scientists. And, because it is so important, there are a surprising number of studies looking at ways to increase fruit and vegetable consumption by kids.

Reading through the studies yields some fascinating results and loads of practical ideas we can use at home. Interestingly, many of these apply just as much to kids up to 12 as they do for the younger ones (including the stickers!)






1. Give the vegetables a cool name. Calling greens ‘power peas’ or ‘x-ray vision carrots’ has increased take-up in school canteens in the US by 50 per cent. This works on two levels. Firstly, the vegetables get a ‘cool factor’ upgrade. Secondly, names can appeal to kids’ imaginations and enable them to adopt vegetables as part of their fantasy world which is very effective. Yes, the broccoli is still broccoli but re-branding can sell it as a new and improved menu option!

2. Use colours and variety. Studies have shown that kids love lots of different shapes and colours on their plates (unlike adults). A bright and busy plate with options – think kids’ brightly coloured toys and books – is far more appealing than a monochrome offering.


3. Place things differently on the plate. Adults like symmetry and food in the middle of the plate. Not so our children. They prefer things arranged around the bottom of the plate. Who knew? I guess it makes sense as it’s closer.

4. Creativity on the plate. Gets and keeps kids engaged for longer in the food, giving them the chance to eat more. I think this applies to adults too. We all eat with our eyes and the more interesting a plate the more engaged we are.

5. Stickers. Studies have proven that even less preferred menu items are more likely to be chosen if they have a favourite character or logo displayed on a sticker. This is simple to do with food like apples or mandarins in the lunchbox. If you can’t apply a sticker directly to food it can go in a container with a sticker, or wrap and place a sticker on that. And, yes, the 12-year-olds were still drawn to the fruit with the sticker ….

6. Offer food in smaller pieces. This is something that I always consider with my boys. Chopped up fruit, for example, is often way easier to eat than a whole apple. This is especially true when kids have wobbly teeth and are struggling to bite and chew. Kids can be embarrassed about eating big bites in front of others when they’re older or have braces.

7. Link foods to favourite characters. This is a powerful tool when kids are young. Try asking what Spiderman or Elsa would choose to keep themselves fit and healthy. No superheroes are going to perform optimally without some serious greenery!

8. Play then eat. This study done in the US was fascinating. Allowing children to play first at lunchtime and eat afterwards increased the healthy foods consumed by a large percentage. This is believed to be because when kids are in a hurry to go and play they grab their favourite foods and leave the rest. When there is no time pressure they have the ability to eat everything provided. Now, this is not possible in many school settings as the schedule is already set but, perhaps, we need to start thinking about changing this. This is backed up by studies done in Australia that conclude that children given longer allocated eating breaks for food eat more. I see this even with my 11-year-old. If there is time pressure he eats only a portion of his lunch even though he loves eating and it leaves him really hungry. Even if we can’t fix this at school we can make sure we do this at home.

9. Pairings. What a vegetable is matched with can make a big difference. If you have a favourite food paired with a disliked vegetable the favourite food will win every time. However, if two less favoured foods are put together then one is not stealing the limelight and it’s more likely both will get eaten.

10. Taking the less favoured food concept to the next level (for adults or children!) is providing a vegetable or nothing. Try serving just a vegetable on a plate when the kid is hungriest. Many parents do this by providing a vege/dip combo to keep kids from getting too hungry prior to the meal and serving the majority of the vegetables upfront prior to the rest of the meal arriving. There are no rules as to when the 5+-a-day needs to be consumed