A savvy 19-year-old student has cut her food shop bill to just £5 a month by collecting her neighbours’ food waste – and is even dining on fancy meals. On a tight budget after she started studying politics at the University of Manchester in September 2021, Daisy Berrington was looking for ways to save money.
And by downloading an app called Olio, where people list food items they are thinking of throwing away for others in the community to collect for free, in October 2021, she has slashed her food bills that once cost her £30 a month. She said: “I’ve managed to get my shopping down to as little as £5 a month.
“I’ve found that, combined with the things already in my cupboard and other things I’d collected, that it is more than enough to live off. Now I only really buy the stuff that doesn’t come up on the app as much, like eggs, yoghurts or ketchup.”
