Are you tired of spending all of your money at the grocery store? I know that I am! I am in the middle of doing all that I can to cut back on my ridiculous grocery budget right now. So, if you are in the same boat as me, follow along!
I am planning on implementing the following tips that will help me save $50 on groceries this week alone:
- Use your club card – Do you shop at a grocery store that has a club card program? Be sure to check your app or your online account for sales and coupons. I just saw that I have a coupon for $10 off $50 on mine.
- Use coupons.com – I am planning to meal plan and compare my meal plan to the coupons that are available to print out right now and hopefully score some deals.
- Meat-free meals – Hello again meat-free Mondays! You can save big money by cutting meat out of your meals on occasion. We have, in the past, done meat-free Mondays and it has worked great.
- Shop bulk. You can buy food so much cheaper in the bulk food section. One of the local grocery stores I shop at sells bulk oatmeal for $0.67 per pound which is like ½ the price of the oatmeal that you buy in the cereal aisle.
- Make breakfast for dinner. Breakfast for dinner is a cheap way to feed the family! We make it a habit to do this at least once or twice a week and we have noticed savings in our food budget. Typically just scrambled eggs and maybe sausage links. That entire meal costs us just $3.25 for the whole family. ($2 for a dozen eggs and $1.25 for a pack of 10 sausage links).
- Shop the markdown section. I have noticed that if I go to the grocery store early in the morning I am able to score some sweet markdown deals on meat. Most of this meat needs to be sold within a day or two, so I buy it and bring it home and put it in the freezer. The prices are often ½ off too!
If you implement some of these tips in your grocery budget, let me know how you did!
