What is the Average American Family size? We use store discounts, store and manufacturer coupons, buy in bulk and off Brand names and best sales prices and try to stock up.
$537 month , try more like $800 for a family of 4 (2 adults and 2 teenagers).
Oh! we eat a lot of non high end foods. We be lucky to eat a sirloin steak or a chuck steak once every 3 months. We don't buy seafood or the rich peoples foods. The truth is no matter what you do. Grocery prices are very high. We don't own any pets/ animals. All I can say is we don't go hungry but we surely don't live high off the hog either. We don't buy frozen dinners or those lame Healthy diet meals either as they will take a chunk out of our wallet.
Here in Central New York State, TOPS is not tops, PRICE CHOPPER does not chop prices but takes a big portion of your money from your wallet and WEGMANS is over rated. ALDI's and the new Price Right are not great but you can save some. SAMS CLUB and ****'s are not big saving clubs unless you Pay into their Membership and purchase for several families while on the go.
Super Wal-Mart .... well I don't buy anything from Wal-Mart ... protested for years.
So tell me What do you get with $537 ? For 1 or 2 people not bad and can eat well. But with 4 mouths forget it!
Sacrificing the health of you and your children because you're too dam lazy to prepare a fresh ingredient meal is a terrible way to spend your hard-earned money and a huge waste of time. Especially when you consider highly processed foods have been linked to cancer, autism, obesity, diabetes and other serious health conditions. A few bucks saved now will be more than made up for in health care costs later on.
And that measely $1000 you save spending hours couponing and searching aisles for nutritionally void products that don't deserve to even be called food (food-like substance is a much better description) can easily be quadrupled by growing even a small portion of your own fruits and vegetables in the same amount of time.
you missed some of the best...shop early get the meat thats marked down (it's just as good)...look for things like chicken quarters, often as low as 59 cents to 99 cents per lb...why pay $2.99 and more for other cuts of chicken...always by bulk when you can and repack and freeze at home...buy store brands...i really do not see coupons as a way to save, they only entice you to buy high price brands, often in then less than economical package size...i don't want to offend anyone but i notice what other people buy and from what i can see people who can least afford it are the ones wasting their shopping budget on all the wrong thing... i am a professional cook and from what i see in the grocery stores most people would benefit from a course in "how to shop smart"
What is the Average American Family size? We use store discounts, store and manufacturer coupons, buy in bulk and off Brand names and best sales prices and try to stock up.
$537 month , try more like $800 for a family of 4 (2 adults and 2 teenagers).
Oh! we eat a lot of non high end foods. We be lucky to eat a sirloin steak or a chuck steak once every 3 months. We don't buy seafood or the rich peoples foods. The truth is no matter what you do. Grocery prices are very high. We don't own any pets/ animals. All I can say is we don't go hungry but we surely don't live high off the hog either. We don't buy frozen dinners or those lame Healthy diet meals either as they will take a chunk out of our wallet.
Here in Central New York State, TOPS is not tops, PRICE CHOPPER does not chop prices but takes a big portion of your money from your wallet and WEGMANS is over rated. ALDI's and the new Price Right are not great but you can save some. SAMS CLUB and B.J.'s are not big saving clubs unless you Pay into their Membership and purchase for several families while on the go.
Super Wal-Mart .... well I don't buy anything from Wal-Mart ... protested for years.
So tell me What do you get with $537 ? For 1 or 2 people not bad and can eat well. But with 4 mouths forget it!
Unfortunately these numerical statistics do not take into consideration regional cost differences. I live in Ohio, and travel to Philadelphia, Chicago and New York City often and can attest to the fact that the prices I pay for groceries here in Ohio are remarkably cheaper than the three metropolitan areas listed. But I have also found a way to reduce even those costs, via Amazon.com. Amazon has an ever increasing selection of standard staple food options available, and most are in bulk packaging, which affords them much cheaper distribution. But the best way to make that work for you is to join the Amazon Prime Membership. For $79 a year, you get free shipping on everything that ships out of an Amazon warehouse. Mind you that there are items available THROUGH Amazon, which do incur shipping costs, but even that can often be cheaper than the local grocer, if you are willing to buy several of something rather than just a few. For those who live in regions that tax food items, if your food items ship from outside your state of residence, there is also no tax applied.
Take a look @ some of the standard things you buy and see if it were shipped to you for free if it would be more cost effective. I save a bundle over my local grocers on hundreds of staple items from honey to Campbell's pork and beans, pastas to Kraft Parmesan cheese. You owe it to yourself and your budgeting to take a look.
Not sure who wrote this article about 7 savvy ways to save money at super markets?? First of all, our drug stores do not offer these items less than where we can buy them somewhere else. Coupons,every one already knows that...shopping Costco or the big wholesalers is not usually much of a savings. You have to really know your items to find savings as many at these wholesale outlets sell in quantity and by the time you use up a 10# jar of peanut butter it has gone bad. All these large wholesale companies do is encourage you to buy more than you would at a regular store because you have the misconception that you are actually saving so much money. Bottom line when you check out you have spent a lot more than you would have at a regular store.
Most people who do their shopping weekly already know all there is to cutting corners as so many are having such a difficult time. So, this article doesn't offer anything that we don't already know.
OMG, some people just can't get it, You know the type, they are smart as all get out, but no commonsense.
Like some union works on strike, they get a raise that increases the cost to ALL Americans and and gives our government more taxes on that money...So many of our union works didn't graduate from high school..
They voted for excessive food, gasoline, electric, medical insurance, transportations costs, every thing you can think of, to increase by at least 15% thus more taxes are included into the cost of foods gasoline, electric, insurances for our home & cars the list goes on & on, Some people as the saying goes, JUST can't see past their own nose.
THINK ABOUT IT, WHEN A 18,5 OZ BOX CEREAL COST MORE THAN THAN AN 18 OZ CUT OF BEEF OR PORK, WHO IS KIDDING WHOM?
OH HECK, YOUR PRESIDENT GAVE ME AN INCREASE OF ABOUT 1.5% INCREASE IN MY SOC, SEC, CHECK EACH MONTH, WHILE THE COST OF LIVING WENT UP BY AT LEAST 14% THANKS TO THE UNIONS, HELPING UNCLE SAME COLLECT MORE TAXES ON EVERY THING WE PURCHASE.
HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE DEBT THEY ARE HELPING TO CREATE & LEAVING BEHIND FOR ALL OUR CHILDREN TO HAVE TO PAY DOWN?
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