Join in on Families.com’s grocery challenge! All you have to do is set a monthly grocery budget and track your spending throughout the month of May. Let us know that you accept the challenge by visiting the forum. At the forum you can chat with others about your progress, including your successes and your downfalls. Here’s what you do to get started:
The amount you choose for your May grocery budget is completely up to you. Choose an amount that makes sense to you, depending on your family structure and your previous spending habits. You might want to choose a budget that is slightly below your current spending on groceries, but probably not too much lower. Be realistic. Better spending habits aren’t generally achieved automatically. Instead it usually takes incremental steps to get your budget down to where you really want it to be. If you’re not too experienced with budgeting and don’t know how much money you usually spend on groceries just estimate. This month you will track your spending and next month you’ll have a better idea of what your target spending amount should be.
The next step is to join our forum discussion. Let us know what your target amount is and keep us updated on how you are doing. What have you done to save money on groceries? Have you found any exceptionally great bargains? Did coupon-clipping help? What have you splurged on that you now regret? No matter how well you are doing, let us know and we can all work together to meet May’s grocery challenge.
Grocery savings are like a game. It’s a lot of fun to stick within a budget. It requires intelligence and creativity. I hope that you will join our grocery challenge for this month, no matter what your grocery budget may be.