How to save money on groceries: Queenie Tan shares her top tips

Australian finance guru Queenie Tan has shared four tips to save you money on groceries this festive season.

The 26-year-old from Sydney shared a video on Instagram with her 114,000 followers and was praised by hundreds.

In the clip, Queenie walked the aisles of her local Coles supermarket and listed money-saving ‘hacks’ including choosing your weekly meal plan based on discounted items and activating bonus offers using the Flybuys app.

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First Queenie suggested planning your weekly meals around what’s special at the supermarket.

“Build your meal plan around what’s on sale or bonus point offers,” she said.

“Select discounted items that you can easily use in multiple recipes.”

At Coles Queenie, customers can request a rain check if an item on sale is out of stock.

“Don’t worry if a discounted item you want to buy is out of stock because you can request a rain check,” she said.

“So when this item is back in stock, you can buy it at the discounted price up to 30 days later.”

Customers can also download the Flybuys app to activate and receive “bonus offers” on your store at Coles.

In this way, when a certain number of points have been accumulated, customers can benefit from a discount on their journeys.

For a limited time, Coles customers can also receive two free red wine glasses in exchange for 36 Flybuys credits or 18 credits plus $18.

The tips were praised by others on Instagram and many seemed surprised that customers could ask for a rain check.

‘Since when can you write a rain check at the supermarket?!’ one person wrote, another asked, “How do you get the rain check voucher?”

Queenie said all you had to do was ask a member of staff.

Another person said, ‘Yes! I love flybuys. I was able to get an Apple Watch Series 7 just by points!

It follows that a Coles customer decided to change her shopping routine and claimed to have purchased $205.50 worth of groceries for just $3.60.

Anne, from Queensland, visited her local supermarket at 8pm on a Wednesday and shared an image online of the ‘bargain’ food haul, which included 10c wraps, chopped fruit and milk.

“Best transportation in ages,” she captioned the social media post.

The following day, after visiting Coles again, Anne announced that she was permanently changing her shopping schedule to 8 p.m. in order to score further markdowns.

Anne came across ‘another crazy discounted bargain’ with nothing over 10c plus a 10kg bag of rice and bread mix for just 50c each.

She shared images of the purchases, including pairs of socks and pet food for just 10c each.

The social media post caused an online buzz among customers who also wanted to try shopping at a later time to get the best discounts.

’10c for socks! It’s crazy!’ one person wrote, another added, “You scored a lot of time.”

Another said: ‘Wow, I wish I had a Coles near me. They seem to have better markdowns than the Woolies.