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31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending: Day 1

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Do you feel like your grocery spending is out of control? I am hosting a 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending challenge. I am hosting a 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending challenge. Every day this month, I will post one simple challenge to help you get control of your grocery spending.

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Day 17 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Store Brand vs. Name Brand

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Day 17 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Compare Store Brand vs. Name Brand. Buying store brand products is one of the easiest ways to save money on groceries. Also bookmark the 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending category page so you can check in daily.

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How to Save Money on Groceries

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Are you spending more at the grocery store lately? Rising prices are affecting everyone’s bank account, and groceries are leading the way. Everyone is trying to figure out how to save money on groceries! How to Save Money on Groceries. When I plan a menu, my spending is generally under control.

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Day 10 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Plan a Freezer Cooking Session

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It was a huge success, both with time and money. How Freezer Cooking Save you Money and Time: There is some time involved upfront with grocery shopping and prepping the meals for the freezer, but it saves considerable time when you are planning your weekly menu and the night that you are serving the freezer meal.

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How to Save Money on Groceries

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Looking for ways to save money on groceries? Groceries is one budget category that can get out of control very quickly. However, groceries is also an easy budget category to control, but it takes some planning, skill, and organization. How to Save Money on Groceries. Look for grocery clearance.

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The Final Grocery Budget Challenge Post

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I really wanted to reduce our grocery spending for my family of 4 from the average of $634 a month in 2013 to a budget of $450 a month in 2014. It was a bold goal to reduce our spending by so much and I knew I would have to be very diligent with my meal planning. And that is money in the bank.

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Our 2023 Financial Goals

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<<— Once we paid off our non-mortgage debts in 2019, we started saving some of the debt snowball money for college savings. That money didn’t go away once we paid off the debts, it just went toward other things. So, now it is time to buckle down to find the snowball money once again. Plan our Spending.