Challenge: To trim down the grocery bills by at least 33%

According to the US Department of Labor, the average American family of four spends $8,513 per year on groceries. This statistic breaks down to $177 per person a month. My family is not the traditional nuclear family. In addition to me and my husband, we have four children -- three teenagers, a two-year-old, and a mother-in-law. Applying the above figures, our grocery bill for a family of seven should approximate to $1239 per month. And astonishingly, it has regularly fluctuated in the range of $1000- $1300. My goal is to trim this monthly pile of receipts down to $830,(including diapers, wipes, hygiene products, and restaurant bills) if not less. Being able to frugally feed my nutrition-conscious husband and appease the voracious appetites of my teenagers will be my main challenge!

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

See CVS This Week



This week (and last) milk is only $2.69 (after an extrabuck reward for your next purchase). I can always trust Garelick Farms to hold the Farmers' Pledge:  "No Artificial Growth Hormones."  Though I can purchase milk at other places cheaply, they do not always offer such  "whole"some milk. 

Stride gum is free (after a 99 cents reward coupon for your next purchase).  And Revlon nail polish is only 99 cents after a $4 extrabuck reward coupon.  With my toddler running around the store, reaching out for the sunglasses and candy bars, I completely forgot to use my $2 Revlon coupon, which could have made my nail polish completely free (with an extra dollar on the side).  If I had only clipped my coupons together (they were just stuffed in my designated CVS coupon envelope), I would not have forgotten about it. 

And finally, this week Lipton tea bags were on sale for what I thought was a good deal already -- 2/$5.  If you buy $10 worth of certain products, you get $3 in rewards coupons back.  I just bought four boxes of tea, which we drink every day-- 10 mg theanine and 175 mg flavanoids naturally per serving.  I applied a $1 coupon from this Sunday's insert, making the tea boxes $6 for four, after deducting the rewards coupon and regular coupon. Now that's my cup of tea!

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