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Day 5 of 31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending: Create back up meals

Family Balance Sheet

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. Frozen pizza. Life is really hectic. For me and for you.

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

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This Week’s Dinners: Sunday: We went to our favorite local pizza/sub shop for lunch with my parents and grandmother. 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. Total spent this week $97.81.

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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. 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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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. Say that 5 times!)

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How to Save Money on Groceries

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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.