Lidl shopper explains how they got £28 weekly shop for £7.75 with app trick anyone can do

A Lidl shopper who get a £28 weekly food shop for less than £8 has shared how she did it - and it's a) super easy and b) completely free. The money-savvy customer managed to knock 70 per cent off her food shop by using a little-known feature on the Lidl Plus app.

Sharing the huge discount on the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook page, she explained how she'd snagged the deal, the Mirror reports.

She said: "If you don't have the Lidl plus app yet I fully recommend getting it... Ended up getting all of this for £7.75! Absolute godsend in these hard times."

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The Lidl Plus app is a sort of loyalty scheme which offers weekly coupons and scratch cards where shoppers can get 25p to £20 off their weekly grocery shop. The lucky shopper used the scratchcard feature and bagged a big discount on her £27.93 shop.

She continued: "You get a scratchcard on the app each time you shop, and when I scratched mine this morning I won £20 off my shopping!"

Hundreds of Facebook users congratulated the woman on the saving, with many saying they had not heard of the app's money-saving feature.

One said: "Got the app and I've never noticed the scratch card thing. Thanks!" Another commented: "I hadn't even noticed the scratchcards so thankyou."

Shoppers using the app can also build up coupons to spend on their next shop once they reach a certain target. Customers can also use the app to store all their digital receipts in one place, as well as browse weekly leaflets and seasonal magazines on the go.

The app also has offers from third-party companies - like £25 in Lidl vouchers if you swap broadband suppliers using comparison service Uswitch. Another offer is