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35 Money-Saving Grocery Tips | Kitchen Economics

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One of my goals for Family Balance Sheet for 2013, is to get back to posting more money saving tips to help my readers (and myself) reduce our grocery bills. Utilize your freezer. Have an emergency back up meal in freezer or pantry at all times. Shop your freezer/pantry. Make one night a week, " raid the fridge night ".

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Eleven Tips for Easier Menu Planning | Kitchen Economics Link-Up

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Because I menu plan, I pull frozen meat from the freezer the night before my planned meal. Keep your pantry, freezer and refrigerator organized so that you can cross reference what is on sale, the ingredients needed for recipes and what you have on hand. Menu planning saves me money. If whole chickens are on sale for.79/pound,

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Ten Paper Products To Cross Off Your Grocery List | Kitchen Economics Link Up

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Are you looking for more ways to trim your grocery bill? I re-use pasta sauce jars for my homemade chicken stock , or my Roasted Roma Tomato Sauce , or my homemade sugar-free applesauce and store them in my freezer. Welcome to the Kitchen Economics Link Up ~ Cost Cutting Tips to Help You Save Money in the Kitchen.

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Reduce Your Grocery Spending Without Sacrificing Quality | 31 Days to Find $1000

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It is so easy to walk into the grocery store with an idea of what you will spend, walk out with a bill that is double and get home to discover that you have nothing to eat. Yes, there are coupons, but you don’t have to use them to reduce your grocery bill. So read through the below tips and attack that grocery bill!

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11 Simple Meal Planning Tips

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My challenge is I need to reduce our bill, but not make everyone in my family miserable because there is no room for the occasional extras that make us happy, like a special treat or wild caught salmon or Kalamata olives. Over the holidays, I wasn’t as diligent with my meal planning and our grocery bill went over what I budget for food.

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I'm Doing a Pantry Challenge in February

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My goal is to plan February's menu around what is currently in my pantry and freezer and fill in any needs at the store, but reduce my overall monthly grocery expenses. I took an inventory of my freezer tonight and I started plotting our meals for the month. My goal is to reduce our grocery bill by $200. Thanks for reading.

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My #1 Tool that Saves Me Hundreds on Groceries

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How would you like to cut your grocery bill? When I am diligent about using the notebook for meal planning, my grocery bill stays within my budget. Would you like to lower your grocery bill? 8 Freezer Meal Recipes. It is POSSIBLE. Meal planning is by far the #1 way I save money on groceries. So I’ll say it again.

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