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My #1 Tip for Trimming Grocery Spending

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If you’ve read my blog, you’ve probably heard me say that our bills may not be negotiable, but our grocery receipts usually are. When finances are tight, often the only area we can control is our food spending. My #1 tip for trimming grocery spending is an easy one: Serve simple, frugal, scheduled meals.

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8 Action Steps for a Frugal February!

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Review your spending daily to understand where your dollars are going. One way to track your spending is to log all of your purchases, bills, atm withdrawals, and any outgoing on notebook paper at the end of each day. Groceries is the easiest budget category TO GET OUT of control and the easiest budget category TO control.

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What We Ate this Week on our Budget 10.20.17

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Grocery spending can get out of hand quickly, so I post our weekly menu to ensure that I am planning it weekly. Our monthly grocery budget for my family of 4 is $500. I cooked it in my Instant Pot (look for the directions on Monday 10/23/17), and used the meat for Tuesday night’s dinner.

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What We Ate this Week on our Budget 05.29.15

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This series helps me stay on top of our grocery spending and currently our monthly budget is $500 for my family of 4. This Week’s Dinners: Saturday: We traveled to Corning, NY to visit the Corning Museum of Glass with my kids’ Girl Scout troop. We packed our lunch, and ate dinner with the troop at the hotel.

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11 Simple Meal Planning Tips

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If I don’t plan our meals and my shopping list, I spend too much money and make too many extra stops to the grocery store during the week. Over the holidays, I wasn’t as diligent with my meal planning and our grocery bill went over what I budget for food. Will everyone be home for dinner that week?

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What We Ate this Week on our Budget 10.13.17

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Grocery spending can get out of hand quickly, so I post our weekly menu to ensure that I am planning it weekly. Our monthly grocery budget for my family of 4 is $500. This Week’s Dinners: Sunday: We went out with friends to our favorite wing joint. Want to lower your grocery bill?

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Grocery Budget Challenge | September & October

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The Goal of the Grocery Budget Challenge is to be creative with our meal planning and grocery shopping so that we do not over-spend. Lately when I see my bill at the check out, I’m shocked at how few groceries are actually going home with me. Action Step 1 : Plan your grocery budget for November.

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