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

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31 Days to Slash your Grocery Spending. When I get in this lazy …let’s go with exhausted…mood, I have been known to call for take out, or pick up a pizza, or make an impulsive trip to the grocery store. Frozen pizza. Today is Day 5 and your assignment: Create back up meals. Life is really hectic.

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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. Also bookmark the 31 Days to Slash Your Grocery Spending category page so you can check in daily. Today is Day 14 and I’m recapping the week’s menu and my shopping trips.

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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. Monday I had a snacky dinner earlier, and then when Zoe came home from her evening shift at work, she had a frozen pizza. I spent $63 at Safeway, spread out between an embarrassing number of trips.

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WIS, WWA | $149 and I’m not pressed

The Frugal Girl

I can only be pressed about so many things at one time, and right now, my grocery spending is not it. What We Ate Saturday Domino’s had sent me a “free emergency pizza” (I think lots of people got these, because my friend Katy blogged about getting this offer as well!)

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How to Save Money on Groceries

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Looking for ways to save money on groceries? 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. These are strategies I use weekly to keep my grocery bill in line with our budget.

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8 Action Steps for a Frugal February!

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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. Spend Frugal February planning your meals from food that you already have in your kitchen, refrigerator, and freezer. Say that 5 times!)

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What We Ate this Week on our Budget 05.29.15

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This series helps me stay on top of our grocery spending and currently our monthly budget is $500 for my family of 4. We dined on pizza, carrots and dip, and Girl Scout cookies for dessert. Friday: We’re going out for pizza. Would you like to lower your grocery bill?

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