Five New Ways to Save Money at the Grocery Store

Five New Ways to Save Money at the Grocery Store

by Chris Robertson


According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), average weekly
home food costs for a family of four with two children under five years
old rose from $85.60 in March 1999 to $118.30 in March 2009. That's an
increase of nearly 28 percent in ten years. Unless your income has
increased 28 percent or more, you are spending a greater portion of your
earnings on grocery shopping than you were ten years ago.

Other household expenses, such as heating costs, have risen even more
recently. That means there is simply less money to go around and every
opportunity for saving money is worth considering. You probably already
use coupons and look for sales. That's great; keep it up! If you want to
save even more, here are five fresh ideas for lowering your grocery costs.

1. Aisle-by-aisle shopping. Organize your shopping trip by setting up a
virtual aisle-by-aisle grocery list. You'll spend less time in the
grocery store and avoid impulse purchases. Using an aisle-by-aisle
organizer makes shopping so much easier you can bring your children and
save money on baby sitters. Plus, with a virtual shopping list, more than
one person can contribute to the list and that means fewer trips to the
store.

2. Favorites list. Keeping a virtual list of food favorites helps you
avoid the return trip for a forgotten item. Do you always buy a dozen
eggs every week? Do you always buy a jar of peanut butter when your jar
is half empty? The favorites list reminds you of items that should go on
your shopping list. You'll save gas money if you don't have to go back to
the grocery store, not to mention the time you will save and frustration
you will prevent.

3. Pay attention to the store's food recipes. Grocery stores often have
recipes for featured foods. If tilapia is on sale in the fish department,
but you don't know how to cook it, look for a recipe at the store.

4. Set up a grocery coupon organizer and a food recipe organizer. There's
no doubt about it - organizing saves money. When you organize your food
recipes you can easily find a recipe for whatever is on sale that week.
Is pork tenderloin on sale? Just go to the meat section of your recipe
organizer, or look under pork, and there you have it. Same with coupons:
with a grocery coupon organizer you'll know if you have the right coupons
for your purchases. You can also be sure to use those coupons before they
expire.

5. Start a grocery delivery service. Share your shopping expertise. Folks
who are too busy to shop or who are house bond will actually save money
by paying you to do their shopping because you have the skills to save
them serious money. Your customers can email their grocery lists to you,
making it even easier for you to shop for them.

Eating healthy food is important for everyone. Before you cut back on the
quality of the food you buy, consider these and other clever ways of
saving grocery money, so you can still buy the food you want for your
family.

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