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!

Friday, September 23, 2011

Trip Up a Stony Hill



I have only been to Roche Brothers once.  If I went more often, I might be little more confident when pronouncing the store's name (is it a food store named with the sound of an insect or does it sound like those fancy italian chocolates?).  That grocery chain is a bit of a distance from my home, but close enough to where one of my daughter's SAT classes were being held, hence the rare visit.  I have even had an online grocery delivery order filled by them, using a free delivery coupon and additional $10 or maybe it was more off the purchase.  I was pleased with the way they packed the groceries and delivered it -- so professional.  Plus, as a new customer they gave me a complimentary apple pie.

I was surprised, not being a regular customer, to receive in the mail today a nice refrigerator magnet of coupons for their store -- 8 weeks full of things like free peanut butter, canned food item, half gallon of milk, 5 pound of potatoes.  With their nice sale on seedless white grapes (88 cents a pound) and Tuesday double $1 coupon specials (max of 5 coupons with minimum $25 purchase), I think I might make my way up to this store, even if it is a bit out of the way, like its English origin and old definition, "stony hill."

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