Here are some great grocery savings tips from my friends over at All You Magazine. These are just a few of the things that we talk about in the Savings Nation Grocery Savings workshops, so if you have not attended one yet make sure to join us for a workshop in June!
(Thanks to All You for these Save Money on Groceries tips!)
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Hmm. For what it’s worth, my family of six spends about 15% on groceries, and I can say that while I’m not an extreme couponer, I am pretty thrifty. It’s probably the meat, though. I can’t, can’t, can’t buy bone-in chicken breasts. I am not good at trimming them pre-cooked and they take too long if I cook them bone in. That’s probably the other splurge.
Also, I hope they mean sliced-in-store-and-pre-packaged meats, as opposed to sliced directly for you. The commercial, factory packed stuff is around $4-5 a pound, and the deli counter is usually more around $6-8. Right?
Lots of good advice, though! A steal I made this week at Target: the 5lb bag of Feline Pine was $8.99. The 20lb bag was $8.50!!!! I made sure to point it out to my kids (nine and under) to show that you really can save if you watch the unit prices and bulk options.
I’ve always considered myself pretty thrifty. I do buy organic milk, which accounts for about $75 of my food budget, but our budget for a family of 5 is nearly $700. That counts everything we eat (even going out, which is rare) or buy at the grocery store (paper and cleaning products). I make a lot from scratch – laundry soap to bread with freshly ground wheat to save money. What I do buy at the store is always on sale and usually with a coupon to match. Shopping clockwise doesn’t always happen, but I follow the rest of the tips (except the deli meat, because I only serve meat 3 times each week and I rarely find a good deal in the deli).