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Grocery Shopping

Shopping Discount Grocers

November 11, 2009

I’ve gotten out of posting my bi-weekly shopping trips basically due to the time involved in getting them posted. This week, however was one I felt was definitely worthy of showing off. A few towns over is a discount grocery store, which is where I also buy my bulk goods. I try to get a [...]

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Cutting Grocery Costs

May 6, 2009

This post was originally posted on February 3rd, but it bears repeating as it is my Top Frugal Tip. The number one question I am asked is how I keep my grocery budget as low as I do. Implementing these following 8 tips helped me gain control of my grocery budget, which has given us [...]

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Making Your Own vs. Store Bought

March 27, 2009

This topic is very near and dear to me for numerous different reasons. It all actually started when I started taking a closer look at our grocery budget and seeing where I could trim. From there I realized that basically everything that I relied on the grocery store for (which was everything), I could make [...]

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Grocery Shopping Trip

February 10, 2009

I’ve been rather absent from the grocery shopping world for a few weeks. We experienced a sleet/snow/ice storm a few weeks ago, that was the worst one to grace our area in quite sometime. It took quite awhile for everything to melt away, but even then we didn’t return to school. Our high school apparently [...]

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Loads of Veggies

January 28, 2009

I usually don’t buy large amounts of veggies at a time, unless I can get a good deal on them. My last grocery shopping trip found me with 2 bags of onions and 8 green peppers!! I already had a partial bag of onions at home, and 2 green peppers. I almost didn’t get them, [...]

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Grocery Shopping: Weeks 1/18-1/31

January 27, 2009

I got too busy to post this last week, and this week I’ve been all in a frenzy because of our ice storm. While it is remarkably beautiful, it is terrifying! We’re prepared if we are to lose power, but still. Ya know? Anyway, I actually did my grocery shopping last week. Here is how [...]

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Grocery Shopping

January 7, 2009

I actually intended to have this post up this morning, but I didn’t make it! I’m a little behind on things today. Anyway, I went grocery shopping on Monday with my new budget. This go around I went to Aldi, WalMart and Walgreens. For picture sake, I jumbled Aldi and Walmart together, and I forgot [...]

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Grocery Shopping

December 11, 2008

Wal-Mart Please excuse the disaster mess going on behind this picture..oh and the sun that was blindingly shining through the window. I’m not complaining… I bought some stuff-stuff this time at Wal-Mart. I generally try not to do this…but I made the mistake of going down the kitchen aisle. That is my weakess ya’ll…and it [...]

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Grocery Shopping

November 25, 2008

Oh man, what a differnce it makes to go grocery shopping on a different day than Friday! I was very excited when Thursday of last week rolled around and I realized that the ONLY thing I actually needed from the grocery store, was milk, and I had enough to last through Friday. Since we were [...]

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Grocery Shopping

November 8, 2008

I did all my grocery shopping for the next 2 weeks yesterday. I’ve been saying this for quite some time now, but yesterday finally convinved me….I’m DONE shopping on Fridays!!! I would rather go on Monday. Walgreen’s was all out of deals, again…..and every store (I only went to 3) was packed! I waited in [...]

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