20 ways to save on groceries
Here are 20 ways to bring your food bill under control without sacrificing time, your family’s health or your own sanity:
- Eat your fruits and vegetables
- Give those shelves the once-over
- Stick to the edges
- Shop early and alone
- Set your shopping mood
- Operate by the book
- If you want to win the savings game, learn the rules
- Know when to use a list
- Know when not to use a list
- Grocery stores are for groceries
- Take a rain check
- Know the system
- Realize that more isn’t always cheaper
- Request price matching
- Look for double coupons
- Weigh before you pay
- Beware of “discount store syndrome
- Realize that sometimes the best bargain isn’t the lowest price
- Check your receipts
- Put your savings to work
A lot of these tips are common sense, but some of them are interesting, for example #16. You wouldn’t normally think of weighing a “10lbs” bag of potatoes would you? But they own have differences of up to 1 pound. #13, I’ve personally experienced. Everyone would expect the double size of a can of coffee to cost lest per oz. then that smaller one right? I’ve seen cases where it is actually better to buy two small ones instead of one large one.
People who shop at Walmart need to learn to use those little red price tags. For a lot of their items they list a unit price (price per gallon/fl oz./oz./lbs/etc) for their groceries. Use this to determine what a better deal is.
I’m not clear on what ‘setting a shopping mood’ is.
And don’t forget frozen vegetables. It’s better than none at all and they are cheap. Also you can make a nice cheap sauce to pour on them.
Sometimes when I do shopping early, I just get irritated coz most of the things that I want to buy are usually out of stock! The store where I use to shop usually replenish their items I think after lunch or mid afternoon…
Anyway, those tips are nice and I can apply them when I do the grocery. I am also looking at the price and the size/amount of products. I think there’s a lot of tricks and should I say “deception” happening inside the grocery store. So all of us must watch out and be careful not to fall on these tricks to avoid spending much while thinking that we saved some…lol!