1. One of the best places to get a job at Uni is at a local supermarket. So either you, a flatmate or a friend will probably work in one. Make sure you take shopping trips together to make use of their, or your, discount card, which will chop at least 10% off your bill!

2. Go halves with flatmates on boring items like milk, sugar, bottles of sauces, tubs of butter etc. so you can spend more on small luxuries!

3. Make a list BEFORE you leave to go shopping. Try and keep to your list and budget. Hopefully that will help you avoid just ploughing through the store and notching up a food bill that's close to a small fortune.

4. It's difficult to eat foods that are good for you at Uni, like vegetables or fruit. To give you more incentive, you and your flatmates could all pitch in to buy a cheap blender so you can make fruit smoothies, which is more fun than chomping your way through five granny smiths a day.

5. Food shopping can be a boring event so either go with a flatmate or introduce a system to your flat or house where people in twos take it in turns to go for everyone else.

Please note: The above top five is not the choice of the BBC.