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MAY 11, 2016

My grocery budget doesn’t just include food, but also household goods, paper products, and cleaning supplies which unfortunately can take up a chunk of the budget. By finding reusable alternatives, you can save money that can be put towards food, and avoid the trash dump too.

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Grocery Spending Groceries Grocery Used 100

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MAY 3, 2016

31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending. Food is forgotten about and becomes a science experiment. Good food, too. You will need to work fast on this challenge so foods aren’t sitting on the counter too long. Sort all of the food by category. Discard out of date foods. Be sure to rinse well.

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Grocery Spending Freezers Refrigerators Groceries 100

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MAY 7, 2016

31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. My plan was to put all three on one sheet pan to roast, but I had too much food for the pan. and it doesn’t look like a lot of food, but it got us through the week, along with what we already had on hand. This week’s shopping trips: This first photo is quite scary.

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Grocery Spending Groceries Grocery Lunch 100

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MAY 6, 2016

31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. Don’t be afraid of the clearance section at the grocery store. Stores will mark down foods and other products when they are close to the “use by” date or the store has too much of a product and it needs to be cleared out. Yep, you read that assignment correctly!

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Grocery Spending Clearance Groceries Grocery 100

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MAY 15, 2016

31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. Meal planning is really the cornerstone of smart grocery spending. When you walk in the grocery store with a plan, you will avoid duplicate and impulsive purchases, but walk away with enough food to get you through until your next planned trip.

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Grocery Spending Meals Groceries Grocery 100

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JANUARY 9, 2012

How to Save Money on Organic Food. Know Your 'Buy' Price on Your Groceries. My Menu/Grocery List Clipboard. Save Money on Groceries Without Using Coupons. Ten Paper Products To Cross Off Your Grocery List. Want a Month of FREE Groceries? Stop Wasting Food. Easy Summer Menu Planning.

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Grocery Spending Groceries Grocery Menu Planning 159

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MAY 8, 2016

31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. Meal planning is really the cornerstone of smart grocery spending. When you walk in the grocery store with a plan, you will avoid duplicate and impulsive purchases, but walk away with enough food to get you through until your next planned trip.

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Grocery Spending Meals Groceries Grocery 100

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MAY 14, 2016

My big shopping trip this week was at Giant Food Stores. Also bookmark the 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending category page so you can check in daily. The post Day 14 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Weekly Recap appeared first on Family Balance Sheet. Total spent this week $97.81.

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Grocery Spending Groceries Grocery Raisin Bran 100

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MAY 5, 2016

31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. Some nights, activities or work might run later than planned, or I forgot to take food out of the freezer to thaw, or I just need to simplify dinner hour and I really just want to throw the meal plan out the window. Today is Day 5 and your assignment: Create back up meals.

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Grocery Spending Meals Groceries Grocery 100

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MAY 22, 2016

Day 22 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Plan this week’s meals and shopping trip. Meal planning is really the cornerstone of smart grocery spending. Also bookmark the 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending category page so you can check in daily.

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Grocery Spending Meals Groceries Grocery 100

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MAY 10, 2016

Dinner hour is often more like 15 minutes of scarfing down food before we have to leave for some kind of practice or meeting. Also bookmark the 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending category page so you can check in daily. It was a huge success, both with time and money.

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Grocery Spending Freezers Cooking Groceries 100

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

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. Groceries can get out of control fast, but all it takes for you to get your grocery spending in line with your budget is PLANNING.

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Grocery Spending Groceries Grocery Finds 113

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MAY 24, 2016

Day 24 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Save on Organic. When it comes to organic food , everyone’s line in the sand is different. I have friends who are adamant about eating only organic food and I have friends where eating organic is not a priority. How to Save on Organic Food. Look for Mark Downs.

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Organic Organization Food Saving 113

The Frugal Girl

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What I Spent So I went to pull together my grocery spending for the week and I realized that it’s all quick trips to Safeway. I never had room for a toaster oven at my other house, but I do really like having one here, especially for reheating things or making two-person servings of food.

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Safeway Toaster Ovens Leftovers Toasters 207

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JULY 9, 2014

In 2013, our average monthly grocery spending was $635. I knew I could do better, so in January 2014, I made a commitment to reduce our grocery spending, but not sacrifice the quality of food and meals that I fed my family. Our savings: $55 a month or $660 a year.

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Grocery Spending Financial Goals January Budgeting 242

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MAY 4, 2016

31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. Along with your orderly kitchen, you should also have an inventory of the food that you have on hand. Today, we’re going to plan meals using those inventories of foods you found in your pantry, fridge, and freezer. Today is Day 4 and your assignment: Pantry Challenge.

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Groceries Grocery Budgeting Budget 100

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MAY 12, 2016

This post is Day 12 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. How to Use Pinterest to Save Money on Groceries. Pinterest is A Gold Mine for Money Saving Grocery Tips. After the 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending series …;)…the next best place to find easy money saving grocery tips is Pinterest.

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Saving Money Groceries Grocery Money 100

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NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Back in January I introduced the 2014 Grocery Budget Challenge. 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.

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Budgeting Budget Groceries Grocery 124

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Assign a budget category to each transaction, so you can add up what you spend on food, fuel, clothing, self-care, etc. Groceries is the easiest budget category TO GET OUT of control and the easiest budget category TO control. To reign your grocery spending in, you must plan all of your meals.

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February Frugal Financial Goals Goals 130

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Are you spending more on groceries every month than your budget allows? Would you like to reduce your grocery spending? Are you an impulsive grocery shopper? The grocery bill can get out of control for me if I’m not careful. This year, I need to reduce our grocery spending and I need to succeed.

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Budgeting Budget Groceries Grocery 174

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MAY 1, 2016

Do you feel like your grocery spending is out of control? Are you shocked by how much you’re paying at the check out and how little food is actually in your cart? I am hosting a 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending challenge. I am hosting a 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending challenge.

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Grocery Spending Groceries Grocery Budgeting 100

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JANUARY 28, 2022

of Agriculture, a US family of 4 discards around $1500 a year on food waste. Imagine saving your family’s budget $1500 a year just by being more aware of your food waste and taking action to stop it. The freezer can be an important tool to saving money at the grocery store and it’s not just for saving leftovers.

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Saving Money Groceries Grocery Money 130

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MAY 18, 2016

Day 18 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Coupons! Coupons are an easy way to reduce your grocery bill. The good news is that coupons are very easy to find and you don’t need to spend loads of time clipping them to slash your grocery spending. This post contains affiliate links.

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Groceries Grocery Grocery Coupons Finds 150

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MAY 20, 2016

31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. Today is Day 20 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Pre-Holiday Grocery Sales. Is there a single holiday that doesn’t revolve around food? The pre-holiday sales are a great time to stock up on the delicious holiday foods. Think about it.

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Grocery Spending Groceries Grocery Holiday 100

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OCTOBER 23, 2011

If you answered yes to any of these options", then check out 12 Healthy Breakfast Food Ideas That Are Quick and Easy. If your grocery spending has spiraled out of control, yet you often feel like you have “nothing” to eat", then head over to Money Crashers for 10 Family Meal Planning Tips and Ideas on a Budget.

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Menu Planning Menu Plans Breakfast Real Estate 127

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

of Agriculture, a US family of 4 discards around $1500 a year on food waste. Imagine saving your family’s budget $1500 a year just by being more aware of your food waste and taking action to stop it. The freezer can be an important tool to saving money at the grocery store and it’s not just for saving leftovers.

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Saving Money Groceries Grocery Money 113

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AUGUST 28, 2013

I''m happy to report that I was able to reduce our grocery spending in August by about $50 and I''ll put that money in our Christmas savings. Our grocery spending has crept up over that last several months and it was time to rein it back in. You''ll avoid all sorts of duplicate purchases and reduce food waste too.

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August Club Christmas Goals 100

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APRIL 6, 2011

I believe the grocery bill is one of the easiest categories of the household budget to reduce and you don't have to be an extreme couponer to accomplish the task. I use coupons but they are not my only method to reducing our grocery spending. I love finding coupons for the foods and products that we use.

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Land o lakes TV shows Saving Money Menu Planning 166

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 7, 2013

To the same effect of cleaning out your closet, having less food will help make this job easier. If the ingredient stays in my pantry for longer than two months after having done this, and it’s not crossed off of my “inventory” list, I donate it to the Food Bank.

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Cleaning Appliances Donation Organic 221

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DECEMBER 20, 2012

Hopefully you have a general idea of how much you spent on groceries pre-couponing, but even if you don’t, tracking your spending can be extremely beneficial. I have created this awesome and SIMPLE spreadsheet to use to track your grocery spending and savings! Spending – Input the total spent on groceries.

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Groceries Grocery 2013 Calculators 111

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MAY 16, 2016

Day 16 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Avoid Food Waste. family of four discards around $1,500 a year on food. family of four discards around $1,500 a year on food. Imagine saving your family’s budget $1500 a year just by being more aware of your food waste and taking action to stop it.

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Food Waste Kitchen Leftovers Food 165

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Assign a budget category to each transaction, so you can add up what you spend on food, fuel, clothing, self-care, etc. Groceries is the easiest budget category TO GET OUT of control and the easiest budget category TO control. To reign your grocery spending in, you must plan all of your meals.

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February Frugal Financial Goals Budgeting 100

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AUGUST 30, 2014

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. We don’t want to make our families miserable with bland meals, boring snacks, and not enough food in the house, but we must stay on budget. How Did We Do in July & August?

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Budgeting Budget Groceries Grocery 100

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FEBRUARY 6, 2015

My intent is twofold: to hold me accountable with our grocery spending and to give some ideas and insight into how we eat on a budget. She will try new foods and when she tells me she doesn’t like something, I believe her, because it doesn’t happen often. Our budget is currently $500 for my family of four.

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Budgeting Budget Homemade Kids and Family 100

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

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. We don’t want to make our families miserable with bland meals, boring snacks, and not enough food in the house, but we must stay on budget. How Did We Do in September & October.

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Budgeting Budget September October 100

Couponing 101

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Hopefully you have a general idea of how much you spent on groceries pre-couponing, but even if you don’t, tracking your spending can be extremely beneficial. I have created this awesome and SIMPLE spreadsheet to use to track your grocery spending and savings! Spending – Input the total spent on groceries.

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Groceries Grocery 2012 Calculators 95

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

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. We don’t want to make our families miserable with bland meals, boring snacks, and not enough food in the house, but we must stay on budget.

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Budgeting Budget February Groceries 124