Save money on your grocery bills?

Groceries does indeed take a big chunk out of our budget, and that's why I think having a grocery list is helpful. It not only helps us reduce unnecessary purchases, it also saves us time for which we could do other things instead. Before, we just picked items from the shelf, and when we get home, we realize that either we bought too much of something or we bought an item that wasn't necessary.

I go once per week here. But after I see the sales papers for the 3 major supermarkets. I also shop at the swap meet fruit and veggies stands. I do what i have to to save a few dollars. Have a great day there.

I like the Martin Lewis Money Saving website and I often look at it in order to economize. One of the ways he suggests people can save money on their groceries is buying budget no frills sort of food and drink. My kids and I eat a vegan diet. So I have to be careful that all food and drink we buy is suitable for vegetarians and vegans. My kids like no frills pure fruit juice both apple for my daughter and orange for my disabled son. I like to drink cranberry juice and the cheap versions of it contain sugar. I like the cranberry juice that is sweetened with grape juice. I buy it when it is on special offer. The no frills juice juices are very cheap. My kids like the no frills biscuits both digestives and rich tea biscuits. I like ton eat no frills strawberries and think they are a bargain. At one supermarket I collect nectar points. I can then get money off my grocery shopping. Yesterday I got ten pounds off my grocery shopping at that top. Even better at the moment another supermarket has a deal which is spend 40 pounds and get 5 pounds off the next time the person shops. I have one of those vouchers in my hand bag ready to use next week. I take a shopping list and stick to it spending the amount of money I can afford. Good luck.

I once made a complete grocery list of the things I need at home. There is not a single item thta is not needed there. When I go to the super, I check what I don`t have and put it in my list. I only buy that. Sometimes food is too expensive. Lately in my country potatoes are 2 dollars a kilo. I will not eat potatoes, but changed that for rice and pasta. I will not buy something if it`s too expensiive in a certain moment and can be replaced for something else. And I don`t keep a big pantry as the super is at a walking distance from my home.

Hi! If possible, can you use coupons? If you can, see which stores will not only honor them but see if there are any days where they will double them or offer another deal! Also, see if you can start a group that will help you save some cash as some people have made it a hobby to save $$. Also, try to stick with what you really need and stay away from the 'impulse buys'. If you have to have an 'impulse buy', see if a cheaper location will offer the same item. Good luck! Sarah

If you have already reduced a little in your costs then that could be a great start for more costs reduction. I think we should really look at what we need and what we don't need at all and also sacrifice is the key to saving more money, if we want to eat this now maybe we can also sacrifice by not buying that product until we get used to it, this way we can save more money.

We always find that bulk buying is best, when there are offers, and we can work this recession to our advantage, as supermarkets try their hardest to beat their competitors in price, if you have the time you can shop around, purchase the offers in bulk, providing of course you have the room. BOGOF's (buy one get one free) are ideal for saving on the bills. We have poundland here in the UK and you can get branded goods for a fraction of the cost that you would buy it in the Supermarket. I buy cod liver oil tablets and in Boots the Chemist they were £9, when I went to another shop they were £5 we are not talking pennies either. Same with my aftershave, in one shop it was £34, I went to another it was £22.

We've always been pretty careful about our grocery bill, but we are now being even more careful, if that was possible. Although we did once go for a few months on little more than pasta or rice and beans, and we can't really do that again because we have a child now. But we are using coupons and watching for sales and making a meal plan.

Grocer bills just seem to keep climbing higher and higher. we need tocut costs and cornere wherever we can. i find that bargrain shoppong the sale flyers and clipping coupons does help to ease the burden.

We try to do shopping once every payday. We buy items in bulk for at least two-weeks consumption except for meats, fish, vegetables and fruits, which we are buying every week from the wet market. I can see we are saving more when we do it like this because we can avoid buying stuffs like we don't actually need. also, before gong to the market we are doing shopping list so we can only buy the items we really need.

I'm poor in budgeting and much of the money I make go to food because I seldom cook at home. That means going to do groceries is not a regular thing for me. I go to the supermarket when I run out of toiletries and some canned foods. Otherwise, I just buy ready-made food.

plan your meals out ahead of time using what you already have in the house to base those meals on. If you have the extra money and there is a terrific sale on say meat, take out what you need immediately and freeze the rest. Do NOT shop while hungry. You buy things you do not want or really need because you are hungry. Stock up on staples, pasta, beans, rice when they are on sale, and store the rest.

I also follow that rule. I go for a weekly basis. List them down, get only those what we really need. We, my husband, make it a point to have a full meal before going to the grocery, for we may tend to crave for something when got there. An empty stomach going to grocery could buy us several food items. Also, we may compare price between items. Same quality but lesser price is a wise move there. Good luck to all of us. Thanks

Yes when the income was limited and so was the extra income,the only choice for us is to save money,I think the best way the save money is do less shopping,the less,the better.So we should just stay at home for more time and try to avoid the grocery and mall,I do not mean just stay at home,we can go for some sports,I mean just avoid the shopping,then you will find out that there are not so much stuff you really need to buy,then you can save a lot of money in this way.

I don't have any new ideas but I do what you do; I don't shop for things I want to buy but buy things because the price is right. I try to buy some fruit, some meat and some vegetables each week but I don't have a specific type in mind to buy. If lettuce is cheap then I buy lettuce. If apples are cheap, I buy that. May not be first choice but it's good food for cheap.

I look at online circulars, find out what's on sale, go through any coupons I have and match them to the sales for optimal savings. Then I plan my menus for the week. I may not be eating my favorite foods but I'm eating nutritious food that is cheap. Planning is the key to saving money. Plan your menus around the sales and your trips to the store around other errands. I also advocate having at least a month's worth of canned goods, which I buy on sale, that can be a lifesaver is you find yourself with no food money one week or a disaster hits. Be sure to rotate them so you always have the best tasting food.

Whenever I go to the grocery I buy enough groceries to last me 2 to 3 weeks. I get savings by buying the larger packages rather than the retail ones. I also buy season and other food that are repacked then transfer them to containers. The seasoning that are in bottles or tin cans can be more costly that those that are in plastic sizes even though they have the same amount of content. Whenever I am going to buy meat, I simple get uncut ones and then cut them myself when I get home. This way, I get to burn my time (I have a lot of idle time) and at the same time save money.

One of the ways that I have saved money with shopping has been to shop at Target. I use my Red Card, and that gets me an additional 5% off the purchase price. I also get all my prescriptions at Target because they will send you an additional 5% shopping pass after filling four prescriptions. They also give you in-store coupons for items that you normal purchase, which helps you to save a little bit more money. In addition, they will periodically send you in the mail discount cards. One day, I went shopping I had my Red Card, RX rewards card, and a 5% discount card that they sent me in the mail. That day I saved 15% off my purchases, which helped quite a bit. I have been trying very much to make a menu. I will look to see what items that I already have for cooking, and brainstorm meal ideas from theere. This way I can think of meal ideas where I have most of the ingredients already so I may only need to pick up 1 thing instead of all the ingredients for a meal. This does tend to save me both time and money. I would also say be creative and find ways to use what you already have rather than purchase more items. The other day I wanted to make a meal that I generally make with tomato sauce. I was out of tomato sauce, but I had Prego, so I simply substituted the Prego. The dish came out pretty good; although, it did taste slightly different. Still liked my tomato pasta soup with onions that made, so it all worked out just fine. Recently, I discovered shopping at Sprouts. They have really good prices on produce. I save a lot on buying produce at Sprouts. I mean bell peppers 3/1.00 when they are .88 cents each at Fry's. Onions .50 a lb compared to .97 a lb at Fry's. It is like saving about 33 - 50% on produce. I do not know because I have not tried this myself, but a friend told me of a program that they have where you can go and get 80 lbs of produce for $5. It is some type of a moving market or something of that nature. I have not tried it myself as when I looked into it was summer. If you want to participate in it year round you have to get a $100 membership, but apparently in the Fall and Spring you do not need the membership. You may look into whether or not they have something like this where you live because if they do it could be a pretty good deal especially if you eat lots of fruit and veggies.

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I used to just go shopping once a week, but I remember being in a shop once, and there were some pensioners looking at the prices of the loose vegetables, and talking about how they had gone up in the last few days, and I had a sort of epiphany moment, inasmuch as such a word can be associated with shopping in a supermarket, and realised that its easier to keep on eye on prices if you go more often. Mostly I tend now to buy just the food I need for a day, but I live fairly close to a reasonable sized supermarkets so that's easy, but it does mean I can watch how the prices change, better, and that I don't waste as much as I used to. In many ways its a bit of a game, I feel, I go in there seeing what's gone up and what's gone down, and what's on offer and what no longer is, it's a bit sad, but we have to do it, those supermarkets are out to charge us as much as they can.