Food Shopping on the Cheap - Take 2

I didn't have high hopes for this week since I had to buy a lot of Turkey Day items and purchased a lot more than usual...but I still managed to do awesome, and I even spent enough to go back for a free turkey :-)

Food Shopping on the Cheap - Take 1

This is my first post that isn't a recipe my friends...But I thought I'd share that I have started to take control of my food shopping and become a coupon clipper and a sales stalker. I was getting tired of spending $150 - $200 at the dang food store all the time, and still feeling like I had nothing to make. I thought it would be interesting, not only for others to check out my savings, but also for myself to see how I do each week.

Thanks to the help of many many many websites and the asbury park press inserts, I have started to match sales with coupons and only stock up on items that are only on sale. It took way more time that I had hoped, between clipping the Sunday paper's coupons, searching and cutting coupons online, and looking thru Ad's. Not to mention the time it takes in the actual food store looking at my list and coupons and matching up the correct sale items.

It wasn't easy, and it took up a lot of my time...but this week I only spent $65 on 41 items.

Here's to Week One.