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Eating out, Grocery Shopping, Food Shopping Online, Major Food
Savings!
Savings At Your Local Grocery Store So easy, so many ways to save~
1. Eat
the food you buy, eat at home! 2.
Shop from a list at the grocery store 3.
Use coupons and shop at a grocery store that doubles the coupons. Free food can be found if you watch the sales ads that the
grocery stores put out and then match them with a coupon.
4. Eat more meatless meals!
5. Compare local supermarkets. Don't assume that all supermarkets
price their items the same. Make a list of the common items you always buy and check the prices at all the stores. You'll
be able to see which one has the better prices. Remember that the circular weekly ads will have specials that are still worth
purchasing. Also don't assume that a supermarket is the cheapest just because it uses a word that describes cheaper or
lower cost in it's name that it actually is!
6.Stockpile. Get to know your stores special cycles. For instance, if your family loves Ragu spaghetti
sauce, watch for when it goes on sale for say $1, and then use a coupon like $1/2 jars and buy as much as your family
can eat in say the next 6months. If you use 4 jars a month and you end up paying $12 for 24 jars and they normally sell for
$2.99 a jar, you just saved $ 59.76!!!!!!!!!!
7. Be open to different brands of food including generic.
Generics are no longer substandard like they used to be. Plus most grocery stores offer a guarantee that if you don't
like their generic brand they will give you your money back or substitute a national brand. Check with your local store.
8. Shop the outer circle of the grocery store for the healthiest items. Normally the most cost friendliest too!
9. Look for clearance racks and boxes. These ofter contain discontinued products, or products whos manufacturers have changed
looks, still completely good stuff, just at a discount.
10. Learn restaurant secret recipes
here, so you'll be more inspired to eat at home.
Eating Out On A Budget!
1. Share
a meal
2. Order water. It's healthier and free!
3. Choose from the days specials.
4. Eat out during the
early bird hour
5. Try the happy hour menu
6. Use coupons from the newspaper and delivered with your mail
7. Don't go on the busy nights, Thursday-Sunday
Food Savings From The Internet
1. Research hard to find food favorites online. Use
the google search button and compare the prices.
2. Shop at Amazon for your groceries in bulk!
Amazon has awesome specials. I've seen free shipping (save on gas) and rebates for so many items... try amazon today!
This months stock-up item is Peanut Butter! Well, really Bertolli, Knorr, Lawry's, and Skippy products! Click on the Peanut
Butter link below for more info. and to order!
Grocery store review- Fresh and Easy, a Tesco Company
Really, who new grocery shopping could
be so fun... and help teach kids about money?
Fresh and Easy has come to town and I never thought I'd be this happy! It's
not just the $5 off a $20 purchase coupon that they are giving out either (although the coupon lover in me was delighted),
but the prices and freshness of their products are what really make this grocery store great!
The first time I
knew about Fresh and Easy was when I noticed that the town next to mine was getting some MAJOR updating on one of
their older, run down shopping centers... It's always nice to see a deserving neighborhood get revitalized... it
almost empowers all the surrounding areas and encourages everyone else to care about their neighborhood again.
A
few months later I saw the same thing happening in my little town. Although my town as a whole has great character there was
one shopping center that needed a little TLC and Fresh and Easy remodled this one too! The shopping center looks wonderful
now, complete with the communities quaint character shining through... and the store hasn't even opened yet!
Back to the store itself, because honestly looks are good, but the goods are what count. I first stopped at the Fresh and
Easy in the neighboring community by myself. I figured it was either going to be good or bad, and if it was bad I wanted
out of there asap, and bringing the kids would slow me down. The first thing I noticed was the brightness of the store. Not
to the point that my eyes hurt, but to the point where I could see the product and read the ingredients. The aisles where
wide and the whole store was clean. Wondering employees were spread out to see to the needs and questions of all customers,
and there is even a sample bar in the back of the store where you can taste all of their specialty items.
Some
of our new favorite items are :
Field green salad $1.99 This salad could easily feed 4. It comes with a bunch of different
lettuce types, carrot shreds, cucumber slices, cherry tomatoes and the most delicious balsamic vinaigrette. You could easily
eat it for lunch as it even comes with an individual napkin and fork!
Ready to eat mac n' cheese $2.99
Both the kids and us adults liked it... rare!
Butter $2.08 Good price out here!
Pizza dough Ready to
use $.99 Tastes great!
Frozen bag of broccoli florets $1.29
Tomato and mozzarella sandwich $2.99 This
is so good! It's a baguette with aoli, Buffalo mozzarella, fresh sliced tomatoes and water cress. It's one of those
things that you crave!
Peanut Butter $1.89
And so much more. I know that I like to see prices so I included
a few. There is also a whole section of fresh baked stuff like bread, scones, muffins, and lots of dessert items.
I could go on and on but the reason I really like Fresh and Easy is because my kids now want to help around the house more.
I'm sure Fresh and Easy had no idea that their store could make my kids want to do extra chores to make more money to
spend on groceries. It's not that we don't have more than enough food at home, it's not that I make them buy their
own groceries, it's just that they love Fresh and Easy! They love to pick their own food (I rarely have had to say
no to anything they sell), they love to budget the money they have and discover how much more items they can buy if they use
a coupon. They love scanning their own purchases and bagging the groceries. They especially love the fresh fruit selection
and the baby carrots. I love that they eat the baby carrots and fresh fruit and don't complain when I say we need to go
grocery shopping when we run out of milk!
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