Save £20 a month on your Tesco food shop with PlusSave

Don’t you just love the big weekly food shop? After meticulous meal planning and writing out long shopping lists, you get to mingle with the general public at rush hour and then face off with the final supermarket boss, a.k.a. the checkout tills.

And despite all that time spent browsing budget recipes, your food bill seems to grow bigger and bigger every week. According to consumer website Which? the average big shop consisting of 70 popular items can set you back anywhere between £120 to £165 depending on where you go.

But here’s some good news – if you shop at Tesco, you can now get 4% off your purchases with thinkmoney’s PlusSave^ (available to all SmartPlus account holders).

Save £20 a month on your Tesco food shop with PlusSave

Let’s say you spend around £125 a week on your big food shop at Tesco. With PlusSave’s discounted gift card, you could knock a fiver off your bill every time.

Over a month, if you do four big food shops, you’d save closer to £20. Stack it up over a year, and the savings come out to £240. And we’re not even counting all those little top up shops you’ll do here and there when you run out of milk or your favourite chocolate. That 4% off sure does add up quickly, eh?

How to slash your weekly food shop bill with PlusSave

Want to start saving on your Tesco shop? Here’s how to get 4% off your purchases:

• Upgrade to or open a thinkmoney SmartPlus account
• Go to PlusSave Rewards in the app
• Choose Tesco from the list
• Add however much you want on to the gift card and tap confirm
• Pay with your gift card when you check out

Oh, and that sweet £20 monthly food shop saving? That’s not all you’re getting. PlusSave is packed with hundreds of retailers offering up to 30% off your spend. We’re talking supermarkets, shops, pubs, hotels, and even cinemas. There are tonnes of ways to use those discounted gift cards to put money back in your pocket.

^Offers are subject to change and may vary. Check the thinkmoney app for the latest offers.