The Grocery Game

Here is the web site you go to to find out everything I do to save money shopping. My friend Julie told me about this website, so I did not come up with these great ideas. A little disclaimer it takes a lot more time than the web site says and it can be very frustrating. In the end I always decide that its worth it though.

In a nutshell what you need is:

1.A sunday paper where you get all of the store and manufacturers coupons.

2.You clip and organize the coupons however you want (I do this every Sunday after the paper comes, it usually takes me about 45 minutes). I organize my coupons as follows: Beverages, Cereals, Desserts/Snacks, Canned Goods, Other Food, Toiletries, Drugs, Paper Goods/Cleaning, Refrigerated, Frozen, Restaurants/Dates.

3. A subscription to Teri's list which is $10.00 a month, the first month is only $1.00 trial month.

4. Pick one store where you want to shop the sales. I chose Albertsons, because they take competitors coupons as well as manufacturers and have great sales.

5. Sunday night I print out all of the items I think I need from Teri's list that show the sale items at Albertsons. I take my manufacturers coupons and my store coupons and go monday morning. The sales go sunday through tuesday, and I find that if I go first thing monday morning it is easiest.

*Another disclaimer. It takes a few months to really start seeing results, becuase you slowly build up your coupons. Like I said it does take some time and energy but I use to spend at least $200.00 a week on groceries and that was shopping at walmart! Now I spend anywhere from $40.00 to $100.00 a week on groceries.

*Another perk of doing this that may seem frustrating at first, is you really build up your food storage, because you buy canned goods/paper goods/toiletries when they are on sale so you stalk up. Teri's whole idea is that by stocking up when things are on sale you will spend less in the future. So at first when you go shopping you may be frustrated because you aren't actually going for things you need, but over time it will pay off.

You can read more about this on the website I gave you. Good luck for those who are willing to put in the effort. It took a little while for me to get in the groove of this and every month I told Jaron I was quitting, but it really has paid off and it gets easier as time goes on.