Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 14, 2013

Saving on Grocery Bills. A good part of our monthly income is spent on grocery shopping, and the budget may even go higher depending on whether it’s a holiday or a birthday where you need to feed more people. If you really need it, add it to the next week’s shopping list. Eating out harms you in two ways.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Smart Grocery Shopping. Skip the pizza and constant eating out. Make regular trips to your local grocery store for dietary staples and fresh produce for a healthy diet that won’t break the bank. Cutting down on meat as well will help you further reduce grocery expenses and maintain a healthy diet.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 13, 2013

These meals, whether they are take-out meals or ones from the grocery store, are usually high in calories, fat, and sodium, and low in nutrition. Sure, sometimes it’s okay to have a take-out meal or fast food meal to save your sanity, but eating out more often than not is a luxury that ends up costing more in the long run.

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Family Balance Sheet

MAY 14, 2013

Are there reliable grocery stores at your destination? Maybe you don’t want to cook at all during your vacation or maybe eating out for every meal is beyond what your budget can handle. For dinner, we''ll plan to eat in on 5 nights and eat out 2 nights. Your planning starts with your destination.

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Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 2, 2011

Groceries are the one area in our household budget that I feel like I have the most control over. The weeks were I don’t menu plan are the weeks that I’m at the grocery store multiple times or we get take out multiple times, leading to an out of control grocery spending. Menu planning saves me time.

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Coupons Do Work

APRIL 14, 2015

Here is an article I Wrote in 2013 that I am going to repost on how I survive on a $30 bucks a week on my grocery bill for the whole family : Question: can you survive on $200 a month grocery shopping for the whole family? If I want to eat out or the kids help me make a fun meal – stockpile stuff.

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The Coupon Game

MAY 12, 2011

I notice I tend to desire to eat out more when the menu isn't planned, which in turn causes a higher cost in our food budget. So, here's my Menu Plan for the week: (We start on Thursdays because it's always been my grocery shopping day.) Thus, the weekly menu has not been what it ought to be.

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Nicoles Nickels

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Because you can only spend what you put on the card it would be an easy way to set an overall budget or even a budget for a certain something, say eating out or grocery shopping and then only using the card for that purpose in a month.

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The Frugal Girl

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And eating out wasn’t the exception for me then. We don’t eat out often, but I like to cook. But grocery shopping and cooking do take a lot of time. But a lot of things which I would call luxury here in Sweden were very affordable for me when living in China. No lectures, no seminars, no real interactions.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 2, 2012

Faster Isn’t Always Better Having a wife that worked at a grocery store for numerous years, and being an avid people-watcher myself, I am often AMAZED when I glance at grocery carts at our local store. These days, if we eat out we opt for the salad and make them serve the dressing in a side cup (dressings are FILLED with salt).

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Grocery Shopping. I ran to the grocery store and stocked up on fruit and veggies so I would have some no point snacks. When we did eat out, we stuck with Subway, Chick-Fil-A, and I got low fat meat and steamed veggies in a chicken broth the one time we had Chinese.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

But there is no way you are going to give up cable, the cell phone, eating out or your gym membership. You shop to release stress, to be someone else, to escape. Send your spouse to do the grocery shopping. When you do need something, shop with a friend that won’t let you go overboard.

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Saving SAHM Sanity

MAY 2, 2011

This time I'm only going to track my grocery and HBA instead of every single penny I spend. Every month I track how much money I save using coupons and getting things on sale. But I never track how much I'm spending. I tried tracking about a year ago, but it took to much time. My guess would be $400-$500, but I don't know for sure.

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Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 2, 2016

That meant no vacations, no new clothes, no eating out, nothing. Could I knock $20 off my grocery shopping somehow? Many personal finance bloggers talk about having a “no spend week” – well basically I had a “no spend” five years! If it wasn’t absolutely critical, I didn’t buy it.

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Family Balance Sheet

MAY 27, 2015

Grocery shopping wisely – We shop at affordable stores, shop the ads/sales, and menu plan. Using coupons for eating out. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. I rarely use coupons. I hope we get to meet him.

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