Shopping!

Have you noticed lately that when you go to the Grocery store, the prices are through the roof!

I sure have!

Did you know, for a family of four the average grocery bill is $863.00 a month, I’m shocked! That was found on www.ramseysolutions.com

They also gave some really good ideas for stretching the grocery bill for example “ If you have leftovers take them for lunch”

Take-out food isn’t getting any better, with new restaurants popping up here and there around Owen Sound, for example, look at Heritage grove plaza with the new Burger King and Firehouse Subs right across the road.

I’ve lately been trying to stretch meals some nights or even if the fridge is full from dinners from the other nights, we will have leftovers night and that cleans out the fridge most of the time.

I was having dinner with my family and this topic came to me, with a few questions in mind;

•  How do other family members try to cut their shopping bills in half or even how do you stretch your grocery bill?

• Are we the only family that has this problem?

As well, I was thinking about single parents and people that are low income or have large families.

So I started looking at some ideas to help everyone.

I thought of a few such as:

• Don’t go shopping hungry 

• Have a shopping list

I thought that I would expand this list so I went looking a little further, here is a site that I found that also may work.

• See what’s on sale/check the flyers 

• Use coupons wisely

• Get to know the prices-write down the regular prices of food that you buy

• Buy in season

These are some ideas that I have found from www.unlockfood.ca

So with all of the technology that we have today, there are so many apps that can be used, when going grocery shopping, such as “ Flipp” and “Save.ca” which I have on my phone.

For the people that choose not to use technology, you can use an accordion envelope and sort the coupons into the right spot for later use.

There are so many ways we can cut our grocery bill in different ways.

There is also a video that caught my eye, from global news about “ 12 ways to save money on the next grocery bill” www.globalnews.ca

There were some points that I didn’t even think of, such as if you have an optimum card or even a PC financial card and use the points from them to get free groceries,

I have also expanded my search to “ How to save money on groceries 2021”

The first thing that came up was ;

25% by generic brands instead of name brand

23% Make a grocery list and stick to it!

And that’s only a few.

I know what I want to do, cut my bill in half and save money and follow some of the tips that I have shared with you.

As I conclude this issue, I just have one question for you.

Do you have ways to cut your grocery bill in half?