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, July 19, 2011

I Scream for Ice Cream!

Stop and Shop does it again!  A wonderful deal this week -- check out your local flyers (I learned that not all Stop and Shops have the same sales at the same time).  Hood ice cream and frozen yogurt is 2/$5.  This week's Sunday paper had a coupon for $1 off of two, plus previous inserts also had Hood coupons.  I was able to buy six 1.5 quart containers for $7, after using three $1 off coupons and their promotion of a $5 instant savings if you spend at least $15 in special Hood products.

That's $1.17 a container.  You can't beat that if you go out for ice cream and buy a small cone, at least in the places I have been this summer.
Posted by Dilara Channing at 10:25 AM

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