In my last few blogs on this topic, we talked about how to analyze your grocery bill and I presented a plan to reduce the overall size of my bill. Our plan was to give our kids a certain amount of money that they had to budget and keep track of and use to buy their own breakfast cereal and snacks. Did Putting Our Kids in Charge Work? Our initial results with putting our kids in charge were rather successful. Because fruits and vegetables were free, they started eating a lot more of those for snacks rather than hitting Dunkin’ … Continue reading →

In my last blog I shared my very large grocery bill but I didn’t tell you what my strategies were to help whittle that down to less money. That’s because I didn’t know. I am convinced that my best ideas come when it is most inconvenient to write them down. That way, I have to mull on them long enough to ensure that eventually I’ll think of it again. I did share how to analyze your grocery bill to help see where you spend the most money on a daily basis. I was (and still am) determined to whittle category … Continue reading →

I told you I’d share the grand total of my grocery bill from last weekend and bit by bit, break it down and figure out how to save ourselves some money. I mentioned in my first blog, that there are instances where spending the time to save the money is not worth it to me. But I am curious to see if by analyzing our grocery bill I can trim it down a little. Are you ready? Are you sitting? The grand total for our grocery bill. . .for a family of 7. . .is. . . $430.00 for two … Continue reading →