Kimberley Bertram saves $10,000 a year on grocery bills by shopping at a certain TIME of the day

A thrifty shopper has revealed how she saves up to $10,000 a year on her grocery bills just by shopping at a certain time of the day.

Mother-of-three Kimberley Bertram, from Sydney, said she manages to keep her weekly grocery spend under $70 by simply snapping up ‘markdown’ items.

She’s among the tens of thousands of Australian families who wait for the right time to shop so they can save a fortune as stores slash prices off perishables in a bid to sell whatever they can before binning it.

Ms Bertram – who shops at Coles and Woolworths – said the secret to getting the best supermarket deals was working out the ‘golden hour’ at your local store.

Mother-of-three Kimberley Bertram (pictured left), from Sydney, said she manages to keep her weekly grocery bills under $70 by simply snapping up ‘markdown’ items

Families wait for the right time to do their shop so they could save a fortune off their grocery bills – as stores slash prices off perishables in a bid to sell whatever they can before binning it

Ms Bertram – who shops at Coles and Woolworths – said the secret to getting the best supermarket deals was finding out the ‘golden hour’ at your local store

‘The best markdowns are always going to happen in the afternoon to late night, at the close of business because the option for the store is they sell it or they throw it away,’ she told Yahoo.

Many avid bargain hunters agreed, revealing the markdowns usually take place in the early afternoons or within one hour before closing time.

But if you’re serious about getting your hands on products for a fraction of the price, Ms Bertram said every store rolls out discount stickers at different times.

‘It took me about a month of going backwards and forwards to the shops and working out when the markdowns happen,’ she said.

‘I think it was maybe two weeks, I went to the shops literally every day and I’d go at different intervals just to figure out when the markdowns were going to come out.’

Her grocery haul includes 75 cent sausages, $2.74 pork belly and 73 cents for T-bone steak

Many avid bargain hunters previously revealed the markdowns usually take place in the early afternoons or within one hour before closing time

Ms Bertram snaps up massive deals, including $1.40 cheesecakes, and 80 cents smoked trout

Her grocery haul includes $1.80 on salmon, $3.40 lamb chops and 20 cents for tomato sauce 

Determined to get the best deals, Ms Bertram said once she figured out the golden period, she was able to slash her grocery bills by more than 50 per cent. 

The thrifty shopper now saves up to $200 a week, or $10,400 a year.

Her grocery haul can include a pack of chicken schnitzels for 99 cents, lamb racks for $2, pork belly for $2.74, pork sausages for 75 cents and 73 cents for T-bone steak.

She managed to get her hands on rump steaks for 99 cents, and quiches for just 25 cents

What a bargain! Shoppers have snapped up lasagne for 20 cents and chicken fillets for $2.49

Australian leading supermarkets are discounting items progressively through the day, with 20, 40, 60, 80 and even 99 per cent slashed off the retail prices

There are no set day for markdowns as products go out of date constantly – but bargain hunters say the best times to shop are either early in the morning or shortly before closing time

 Ms Bertram previously told 9News she has been able to feed her growing family for under $5 per night by shopping for markdown products.

She decided to launch Markdown Addicts Australia on Facebook, which now has more than 98,000 followers, to help tip off shoppers on where to find all the best savings and reduced clearance products across the country.  

‘It happens in every store, you’ve just got to be there at the right time,’ she said.

‘It’s just smart shopping learning when the stores do markdowns and shopping only during those time frames.’