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Day 3 of 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending: Organize your Refrigerator/Freezer

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31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending. Today is Day 3 of the challenge and your assignment: Clean and Organize the Refrigerator and Freezer. Food is forgotten about and becomes a science experiment. Good food, too. The Sunday dinner leftovers from 3 weeks ago that would have made a delicious lunch–slimy.

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WIS, WWA | all Safeway

The Frugal Girl

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. This is better than endless nights of eating out, but definitely not as frugal as an organized trip to Aldi. Wednesday Leftover chicken quesadillas.

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Day 14 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Weekly Recap

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We all brought home leftovers and that’s what we ate for dinner. Leftover lasagna, salad. I also made one side trip at a different store for a gallon of organic milk that was on sale for the great price of $3.99. My big shopping trip this week was at Giant Food Stores. Total spent this week $97.81.

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

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Dinner hour is often more like 15 minutes of scarfing down food before we have to leave for some kind of practice or meeting. This post includes an excel spreadsheet to organize your grocery trip, along with freezer cooking tips to make your session run smoothly. It was a huge success, both with time and money.

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How to Save Money on Groceries

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Groceries is one budget category that can get out of control very quickly, and that’s before inflation. However, it can be an easy budget category to manage, but it takes some planning, skill, and organization. of Agriculture, a US family of 4 discards around $1500 a year on food waste. You’ll be thankful later.

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How to Save Money on Groceries

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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. Personally, if I don’t make a shopping list and plan my meals, my grocery budget is toast. You’ll be thankful later.

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11 Simple Meal Planning Tips

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Over the holidays, I wasn’t as diligent with my meal planning and our grocery bill went over what I budget for food. Not only do I need to get control of our grocery spending again, but I also am challenging myself with a new budget for January. Keep your pantry, freezer and refrigerator organized.

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