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Day 23 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Bread Outlet Stores

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Day 23 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Shop at a Bread Outlet. They regularly stock English Muffins, sandwich thins, flat bread, kaiser rolls, hamburger rolls, hotdog rolls, tortillas, baked goods, snack foods, and more at prices of up to 50% off or more of the grocery store price. My family loves bread.

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

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This week’s breakfasts, lunches, and snacks: For breakfast we ate cereal, frozen waffles, eggs & bagels. Lunches and snacks included turkey & cheese sandwiches, apples, oranges, cheese sticks, yogurt sticks, chips & salsa. My big shopping trip this week was at Giant Food Stores. Total spent this week $97.81.

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8 Action Steps for a Frugal February!

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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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How to Save Money on Groceries

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Personally, I plan a weekly menu that’s centered around what’s already in my pantry and freezer, what’s on sale and my family’s schedule. Also, I plan for everything–breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners. of Agriculture, a US family of 4 discards around $1500 a year on food waste. Thaw as needed.

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Frugal February

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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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How to Save Money on Groceries

Family Balance Sheet

Personally, I plan a weekly menu that’s centered around what’s already in my pantry and freezer, what’s on sale, and my family’s schedule. Also, I plan for everything–breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners. of Agriculture, a US family of 4 discards around $1500 a year on food waste.

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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. If whole chickens are on sale for.79/pound, Ready to meal plan?

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