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Grocery Shopping 101: Getting the Shopping Done!
GETTING THE SHOPPING DONE Okay, we went over how to prepare for the grocery store and how to be a smart consumer so now it’s time for my top tips for getting the grocery shopping done! (Monday will be my last installment-WHERE to put it all) When you purchase something you’re running out of, buy [...]
Grocery Shopping 101: Grocery Ads & Deals to Meals!
Okay, so I realize I may be weird because I LOVE looking through grocery ads (well, possibly it’s my love of food storage that makes me weird….anyway…again…that is for a different post). I know going through ads can be VERY confusing and hard to do. So, I made a quick tutorial video with some great [...]
Grocery 101 Tips# 14-21: Meat
So, produce and meat are the biggest money makers for grocery stores so it’s important to be educated about the cuts of meat (they are definitely not all equal!) so you can stock up when the right stuff goes on sale. Tip #14 : Buy meat on SALE and stock up! Meat (especially beef) is [...]
Grocery 101 Tips #10-13: Produce!
Time to go over how to make sure you’re getting the biggest bang for your buck with produce! There are a lot of tips and most include using the scales around the produce area. If you have younger kids, it is a great thing to have them do and believe it or not-your introducing them [...]
Grocery Shopping 101 Tips #3-9: What the Owners of Grocery Stores don’t want you to know!
On with the grocery shopping tips! And it’s totally appropriate since I just went grocery shopping today and all of these I found, once again, TRUE today. In fact, these marketing tricks are so great that I can remember reading about them in my marketing textbooks at school….they are so great in fact the owners [...]
Grocery Shopping 101 Tip #2: Unit Pricing
Unit Pricing The unit price is the price you pay per unit of food. Unit pricing makes it easy to compare prices (since some packages weigh different amounts-you can’t always just look at the total price). The unit price is the cost of each unit of measure. The unit of measure may be ounces, grams, [...]
Grocery Shopping 101 Tip #1: Comparing Brands & Prices
As you shop, be sure to compare prices of different brands. NAME BRANDS generally cost the most due to fancy packaging and advertisements-however, sometimes these can be HIGHER quality and taste BETTER than other brands as well. STORE BRANDS are sold by the supermarket chain (so you’ll see the store name on the can, i.e. [...]
Grocery Shopping 101
Become a PRO at grocery shopping! It’s mini-class time again! Did you know that one of the top 5 New Year’s Resolutions is to spend LESS money and stick to a budget? While I can’t help you with all aspects of your budget, I CAN help you with the food portion of your budget to [...]
THANK YOU and Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! Thank you for all of your support this blog is so fun for me to do because of YOU! I love working with you and learning more and more about how to use food storage every day. Together we were able to do some amazing things this December by giving Christmas [...]