I just came across a site called http://www.thegrocerygame.com/. It takes the drudgery out of cutting your grocery bill through coupons.
To quote the site The Grocery Game “reveals the ‘rock bottom’ prices on hundreds of products each week and matches them up with manufacturers’ coupons for the best possible savings at your local supermarket”.
Every now and then I find a coupon for a grocery item while I’ve been grocery shopping and I take the coupon and put the grocery item in the cart (that I didn’t intend on buying in the first place). But after I get home and put the groceries away and empty my purse of receipts and my shopping list, I find the coupon still in my purse.
Check out the site for examples of saving differences you could have using the coupons.
Do coupons really make that much of a difference in your shopping bill?
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I find coupons relatively useless for my family. We shop “around the walls” in the store, hitting the fruit and vegetables, bakery, dairy, fist, and meat. The only things we really buy from the middle shelves are bags of grains and dried beans. We avoid the rest of the middle of the store, because those shelves are full of pre-prepared, packaged goods – the kind they put out coupons for!
Saving $1.50 on a $2.99 can of chili seems like a good deal, but I’d rather put that $1.50 towards dried kidney beans, carrots and ground beef, and add frozen tomatoes from the summer. It may also be a more environmentally sound choice, since I know that most of the ingredients I bought are local, and I’m not wasting the materials and energy for the tin can to be manufactured and eventually recycled.
Your note did prompt me to look and find out that I can see my local Sobey’s flyer online (http://www.sobeys.com/flyer/view/748). This lets me keep my “no flyers” sign on the door, but do my grocery planning before I hit the store!
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