I wanted to share this article with you all today. The article is titled How To Save On Food. It is written by one of my favorite bloggers, Ruth from Living Well, Spending Less. Especially since Thanksgiving has just passed, a lot of us have food on our minds. Hopefully you were able to give something to a local food drive. My children's preschool had a Thanksgiving basket food drive that we contributed to.
An easy way to save money and build your own stockpile of grocery items (which leads further savings) to is to shop the sales! This is pretty basic in terms of theories on how to save on food. But, it is my favorite because it is easy.
You go to the store and you buy the items that you would normally use anyway that are on sale now. Buy enough to last until the next sale (usually about 2 months but depending on your grocery store/chain this could be different). Take the items home and place the extras in a specified area. If you have room in your kitchen cabinets or pantry, that is ideal. But, if you don't just find another space. Now, when you run out of an item, you won't have to pay full price for the replacement. You can just go into your stockpile and replenish your item.
Repeating this cycle with your different grocery staples will really help your grocery budget over time. Here is my favorite segment from the article:
Let me make it more clear with an example. Say your family eats 2 boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios every week. The regular price for Honey Nut Cheerios is $4.50 a box, but when you go to the store this week, you see it is on sale for only $1.99 a box–more than 50% off the regular price! Instead of buying only 2 boxes like you normally would for your weekly shopping trip, you buy 12 boxes–enough to last your family for the next 6 weeks at less than half the price you would normally pay.
Read more at http://www.livingwellspendingless.com/2012/11/01/how-to-save-on-food/#ayUfTtmaAvZIkG8o.99
I hope you enjoy the article and the ideas!
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