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Is Your Grocery Bill Stressing You Out?
My grocery bill has gone from yellow alert to downright alarming. It is more and more challenging to stick to a limited budget while trying to feed a family health food.
Coupons?
The old advice of clipping coupons can be useful if you can find coupons for the things you would buy anyway. That’s always been my problem with the coupon clipping strategy. Coupons tend to be for processed foods, and not the healthy fresh food I like to base my meals on. Oh, I am not above putting a bag of chips or a frozen pizza in my basket, but that is not all I want to buy!
Shopping Sales
The strategy of looking for the food that is on sale tends to work out better, and that has been demonstrated by people testing it. Now I am not the type to drive to several different stores to find the best prices, because that just takes too much time, and hey… time is money too! But you can plan your meals around the specials at the store you always visit anyway.
For instance I found low fat ground beef for sale at my local store. It was in a big pack with enough for 3 family meals. But the solution was to take it home, and then split it out into 3 freezer bags. That way, I had the ground beef for spaghetti, tacos, and burgers. Because of this special, I was able to provide 3 healthy and pleasant meals for my family of 4 people, and I did it for under $10 a meal.
We got some of the ideas for this post from these articles: Frugal Grocery Shopping on FrugalPig.com.
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