advice on budgeting groceries

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Just a few tips–

1) keep a price book so you know what is a good price or each item (In

case you see it on sale or discount then you know if it’s a good enough

deal to stock up on )

2)If you use coupons, watch sales so that you can combine sales and

coupons–even better if a store near you will double coupons.

3)If you use coupons, it’s worth your while to have many—especially of

items you use a lot of. I print coupons from http://www.boxtops4education.com

and I try to check out websites for items I use a lot or really like.

Many companies offer coupons on their website. You can print coupons at

http://www.smartsource.com, though I personally can not make it work on my

computer.

4) You might check out http://www.grocerygame.com or http://www.cutouthunger.org and

see if these services are available in your area. If not, you may want

to pick a particular grocery store (the one that doubles coupons!) and

keep the sales ads over a 12 week period and compare. Supposedly, all

stores run their sales in a 12 week cycle so if you see a good deal on,

say, spaghetti sauce, then you want to buy enough to last 12 weeks until

it is on sale again. I haven not tried this myself though I plan to.

5) http://www.upons.com another website that gives “electronic” coupons for

certain grocery stores that use a preferred shopper card. You go to

their website and click on what you want and they are “added” to your

card and automatically come off when you purchase these items or their

expire. I have not personally found any of the coupons there to be ones

I really used, but you might. Sometimes there are quite a few and

sometimes only a couple.

6) consider joining a coupon swap –you can find an established one at

www. familycorner.com by clicking on “forums” and then looking for

“couponaholics”

Good luck!

JennyO in mo

lwh wrote:

>hello,

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>i am trying to cut back on our grocery bill and would appreciate any

>suggestions or websites on how to do this.

>

>

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>thanks,

>

>linda

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