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, October 4, 2011

Wegmans Countdown

With the Wegmans grand opening soon approaching -- Sunday, October 16 at 7 am, I made sure to visit their website to sign up for their Shoppers Club.  Doing so made me automatically enter their sweepstakes for $500 a and gave me two nice, free gifts -- coupons for a Wegmans reusable shopping bag and a bottle of basting oil.  You can also enter their 5 word contest and possibly win a $25 gift certificate.

In the mail today I received a booklet of coupons for their first four weeks -- things like free (with $10 min purchase) eggs, wheat bread, apple juice, baby-cut carrots, Greek yogurt, steamable vegetables, pasta sauce, and $1 discounts off various items.

Check out their colorful and even instructional website at http://newstores.wegmans.com/Home.aspx
or wegmans.com/northborough
Posted by Dilara Channing at 10:10 PM

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