With the credit crunch looming over our lives and obesity statistics rising, tightening our belts has never been more important.

is our focus this month and we’ve put together many clever ways to cut your costs while whittling down your waist. We show you how to make your money go further – how to shop smart, cook smart and eat smart.

PLUS…

• Lose half a stone in 2 weeks on our Budget Diet.
• Meet our four inspiring slimmers who prove nothing is impossible including our gorgeous cover slimmer, Angeline, who is now an enviable size 8 and 70-year-old Maureen proves it’s never too late.
• Try our 10 wines all below a fiver.
• Look fabulous with our 15 best budget beauty buys
• Our fabulous free gift to you is a FREE BMI CALCULATOR, to discover how overweight you are.

COOKING SMART is also crucial to saving cash and calories and Chef Dean Simpole-Clarke gives us great recipes and ideas. Plan, Prep & Freeze shows you how to extend the “shelf life” of your ingredients by bulk-buying and freezing,. Dean also cleverly shows us how to feed a family of four for five days using one large chicken.