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!

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Shaw's Coupons

I am not much of a Shaw's fan.  Although it is right on the way home after I drop off my daughter to school, the little kid buggy carts are dirty (with no Purell wipes in sight) and the overall customer service in that particular store does not really meet my approval.  These two factors, along with sales prices, generally determine where I spend my money each week.

I did shop at the Shrewsbury Shaw's a couple months ago after receiving in the mail a coupon for $10 off a $100 order.  I just checked out the Shaw's website http://www.shaws.com/savings/index2.jsp to read more about their gift card promotion (which I still cannot confirm) and learned that if you sign up for the Shaw's email savings program, you get a $5 coupon off your purchase of $25 or more.    Plus, if you refer 5 friends to the email program and they sign up, you receive an additional $5 coupon per friend.

Beware that you need to print out the $5 coupon once you sign up, so sign up only when you have access to a printer.

I think I am shopping at Shaw's this week...
Posted by Dilara Channing at 4:03 AM

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