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!
Saturday, November 19, 2011
FREE GROCERIES!
Shaw's supermarket is offering an incredible deal this week -- buy $100 or more of select gift cards and receive a coupon for $20 off your next grocery order (coupon expires 7 days after the transaction). Our family generally spends at least $2200 a year in books (my kids have to purchase textbooks for school and my husband is also taking classes), so my obvious choice today was to buy $100 worth of amazon.com cards. Not only did a $20 coupon spit out, but also a $5 one off a $25 gas gift card purchase. I quickly took these and shopped around for groceries, not remembering until I reached around $18 worth of items to check the clearance rack. And there they sat -- 3 huge boxes of Pampers, regularly priced at at least $19.99 reduced to only $10! With the $20 off, that came out to $10 for a three month supply. It would have been cheaper if I had coupons to add to it, but I only had $3 Huggies coupons. I put the rest of the groceries back, except for the bakery item, a chocolate chip muffin for my daughter. I'll definitely go back each day this week (limit of one such transaction per day) until the sale ends. I hope it works for you, too!
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