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12 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Grocery Bill

It is never too early or too late to reduce your regular expenses, especially one of the biggest ones, foo. Here are 12 easy ways that you can reduce your food bill, starting now.   1. Never shop when you are hungry (or with kids, if you can avoid it). Both situations will lead to overbuying, as extra things find their way into your grocery cart. You may have good intentions, but hunger and kids will usually prevail.   2. Look for stores that double coupons and be on the alert for triple coupon days.   3. Use your coupons … Continue reading →

Are You Shopping at the Right Grocery Store? Four Steps to Save 20 Percent or More

Choosing the right grocery store can save you 20 percent or more on groceries before using coupons. If you were buying a big ticket item, such as a television or a new washer and dryer, you would do some research and shop around, right? Since food tends to be the biggest general family expense after housing, it just makes sense to do your research before you step foot in your grocery store. Just spending $225 a week on your groceries, adds up to almost $12,000 a year!Imagine shaving close to $2,400 off of that total food bill, doing nothing other … Continue reading →

Keeping the Grocery Bill Low

How do you keep your grocery bill down to the same amount that it was two years ago despite the fact that food has gone up? It isn’t easy, but I am determined. Since our income hasn’t gone up, neither can our spending. We’ve already cut corners in other areas, such as with entertainment and activities. Now it is time to wrestle that grocery bill back down to the ground. Keeping Track I’m now back to keeping a running total of our grocery expenses week to week. Having this running total gives us a number to challenge. Can we spend … Continue reading →

Top Ways to Cut Your Grocery Food Bill

Let us get those grocery bills chopped down for good! Think of all of the uses for that extra money! Here are my favorite ways to cut your grocery food bill. 1. Use coupons. You knew that, right? When you cut and use coupons, make sure that they are for products that you really need or want. There is no sense in using a coupon for something that won’t get used. How many exotic mustards, meal kits, weird snacks or other items do you already have in your pantry not being used? 2. Clean out the pantry. Ah, do you … Continue reading →

Five Little Grocery Shopping Tricks: The Limit Sale

Have you been wondering why your grocery bill seems to be increasing every month? Maybe it is because you don’t know about these five little grocery shopping tricks. Grocery stores often use different marketing techniques to get you to spend more than than you planned to spend. don’t be sucked in to the madness. Know ahead of time just what the store is trying to do so you would stay from your budget. In this series, I’ll go through the five little grocery shopping tricks and tell you all about them, including how to avoid having the store take advantage … Continue reading →

Frugal Living Review: June 16th Through June 22nd

From grocery shopping to Goodwill, and from ice cream to value, there is certainly a lot of stuff to know about living frugally. Have a look at all of the good stuff posted last week. June 16th Frugal Living Review: June 9th Through June 15th Have you been finding that your budget is exploding these days? We actually haven’t been doing too badly, but we have changed our lifestyle just a little bit to accommodate some of the increases in prices. Later this week, I’ll be sharing some of the changes I have made in grocery shopping, for example. Meanwhile, … Continue reading →

Great Ways to Cut Your Food Costs (3)

On the last day of this series on cutting your food costs, I’d like you to choose two from each day and begin implementing them into your daily life. If you start slow and only do a couple, you will see savings and you will begin to make it a habit. As you go, continue to try more and more of these tips and you will soon be an expert at shopping for food and providing low-cost meals to your family. Here are my final tips in this series: Purchase skim milk instead of whole or 2%. The lower the … Continue reading →

Great Ways to Cut Food Costs (2)

Frugal living is a lifestyle, and should be implemented into all aspects of your life. Yes, even food. Here are some more tips to help you reduce your monthly food costs and help you save both time and money! Learn how to use leftovers in recipes. Here is a great article with a few recipes and here is another one. When using your oven for cooking, try to bake more than one dish at a time. You might need to add a couple more minutes, but it’s better than having to waste energy by reheating an oven multiple times. You … Continue reading →

Great Ways to Cut Your Food Costs (1)

Let’s face it, food is expensive. Grocery shopping multiple times per month can not only be stressful, but can wind up costing a lot more than it should. I’ve compiled a three part series of tips to help reduce your food costs each month and help you save both time and money! If you try implementing even a few of the ideas provided in the series, you can reduce your food bill dramatically. When I started using methods to cut our grocery costs, I wound up cutting my bill in half by only implementing a handful of these tips. As … Continue reading →