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Planning meals before you shop can help you to make use of the food you already have and to better manage your grocery budget. Check your fridge or pantry and, if possible, use up the older ingredients first.

You can build your meals around those ingredients. Leftover vegetables in a stir-fry or salad, a quick sauce to revive extra pasta. Meal planning gets simpler and grocery shopping is quicker.

The humidity of your crisper drawers should match the type of produce you're storing. High humidity is good for leafy greens, broccoli, berries, carrots and cucumbers. Thick-skinned fruits such as apples, pears and avocados, as well as stone fruits like apricots, peaches and plums, prefer low humidity or storage outside the fridge.

It’s worth sticking to a focused shopping list, based on your meal plan. This can make budgeting easier, because you buy only the ingredients that you need.

Do you eat with your eyes and then you forget about the fresh fruit and veggies you bought? We have a solution – rinse and dry them and then divide them in to-go portions in ISTAD resealable bags. You can even save them in the fridge or freezer to use for cooking or dessert later. Yum!

And if you like bringing a packed lunch, UTBJUDA stackable lunch boxes will be your new best friend. Add your favourite sandwich to one box and fruit to the next box as a snack.

If soup is more your game, an EFTERFRÅGAD vacuum food flask will be your new best friend. It will keep your soup warm for lunch no matter where you are.