This is an old blog post that I wanted to share with you all again! We all can do a little better by out groceries! Tomorrow, I’ll have a guest post up from a blogger who reduced his insurance bill!
Hello! I trust you had a great weekend! So, I talked to a college friend of mine the other day. She has a family of four and her grocery bill is $150 per week. I can only imagine. My grocery bill could be lower too. I talked to Mama McNeal (who raised a family of four) about what my friend should do. Her advice? Shop strategically. Saving on groceries isn’t so much about what you buy as HOW you buy. Here are my mom’s tips:
1) Don’t buy your goods at eye level on the grocery store shelves. The food that is above/below eye level is cheaper
2) Buy your meat in bulk and just freeze the unused portions
3) Buy fruits that are in season because they are cheaper
4) Don’t buy bagged salad. Make it yourself
5 Use coupons. (Coupon’s scare me, but Mom’s a big fan.)
6) Wednesday or Thursday papers have the best weekend sales
7) Become a fan of buy one get one free items (I do that for my seasonings and bread.)
SHOP WITH A LIST
9) Plan your menu for the week before you go shopping
10) Don’t take hungry children with you (I guess my brother and I drove her crazy at the store with the requests)
Here’s another link I found about strategic grocery shopping.
What is your strategy for grocery shopping? How much do you think you save?
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I always shop with coupons and a list…I have to shop for a family of 5 (three sons(10, 3, and 8 months, one husband, and I) If I don’t use a list and stick to it, than I impulse shop. That makes me feel like I wasted a whole bunch of money on nothing…
One more pointer to add… No one should go grocery shopping on an empty stomach.
Just some tips that actually save me even more money but does take time to plan.
Plan your weekly menu off of what is on sale, not what you want to eat. I scour the ads each Sunday/Tuesday/Thursday to see what sales are starting. I only purchase what is on sale and what I have a coupon for. My adage is….if it is not on sale and I don’t have a coupon then I don’t buy it. Since adopting this concept, I can sometime get items for less than $1 and sometimes totally FREE. I shop the B1G1 sales and use two coupons on those items, I use CVS Extra Care Bucks and Walgreens Register Rewards to my advantage to purchase household cleaning supplies, hygiene and even milk.
I went from spending over $400 for a family of 3 to about $175-$200 and that includes hygiene and cleaning products. I have a taught a few close friends how to get all these items as well.
May I ask, why coupons scare you? Coupons = money!!