Top tips to cut your food budget

Each week the NZ Herald's Cooking the Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it's top tips to reduce your food bill. Hosted by Frances Cook.<br /><br />Food is one of those core expenses that soaks up a lot of our money, but that we can feel powerless over. <br /><br />Now you do have to pay something for food, obviously, but there are ways to reduce both your cost, and your effort. <br /><br />You don’t want to be only eating beans and rice, and you certainly don’t want to be spending hours in the kitchen just to save 10 cents. <br /><br />But you can make progress without doing either of those things.<br /><br />Tom Hartmann, personal finance expert from Sorted, came on the latest Cooking the Books podcast. <br /><br />We discussed how much wriggle room you have to bring down the food budget, how to stock up without sabotaging yourself, and how to use technology to your advantage.<br /><br />If you have a question you'd like answered in a future podcast, come and talk to me about it. I'm on Facebook here <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist/" rel="noopener">https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist/</a> Instagram here <a href="https://www.instagram.com/francescooknz/" rel="noopener">https://www.instagram.com/francescooknz/</a> and Twitter here <a href="https://twitter.com/FrancesCook" rel="noopener">https://twitter.com/FrancesCook</a>