What Are the Generic Brands at the Warehouse Stores?

You’ll save money when you shop the generic brands (or private label brands) at your local grocery store. This is true whether you are shopping a regular chain grocery store or a warehouse store. Both types of stores have generic brands on many items, although it isn’t always obvious that they do. You can save big with these generic brands. Not only can the store offer low price son them because of the lack of advertising, but warehouse stores buy these items from manufacturers in much greater quantities than regular grocery stores, so you wind up with even greater savings. … Continue reading

Preparing Meat to Save Money

Meat can take a big chunk right out of the grocery budget, but unless your are vegetarian or vegan, chances are that you want to have at least some meat in your diet. The type of meat you choose and how you buy your meat, as well as the way you prepare or cook it can save you money in this area. You don’t have to be resolved to tough fatty cuts of meat, either. Just use the following tips to save money on your meat purcahses. Tougher cuts of meat cost less money. But you can have delicious, tender … Continue reading

Preparing for the Warehouse Grocery Store 2

In my last post, I started talking about how getting really prepared for a big trip at the local warehouse grocery store can save money. Of course, it can also save time, too. I consider a big warehouse grocery trip to be a project. If I do my prep work, I can save 40-50% off even the bulk prices! As mentioned in that first post, the weeks leading up to a big warehouse trip, I also evaluate what stock we currently have left. What items can I use up right now and incorporate into meals? This not only ensures that … Continue reading

Preparing for the Warehouse Grocery Store

We have been planning a trip to our local warehouse grocery store for next weekend. There is a lot of preparation this time around, in order to maximize our savings and stockpile and minimize our food waste (food waste is a big part of lost money for many food budgets! The mega trip is planned to hit the time right before school and before the cold weather of winter sets in. With both school and winter, the time and opportunity to go out shopping decreases. With winter, especially, there are days when we might get snowed in, when we might … Continue reading

Chicken Enchilada Bake Recipe

Tonight I was shopping at our local grocery store when I had a sudden craving for an old recipe that I used to make with much frequency, but for some reason fell out of including it in our family menus. I’m not sure why, since it is a delicious and relatively easy to prepare recipe. The cost of it is very low, too, but since I haven’t made it since 2006 or so, I no longer have the exact calculations on price. You can bet, though, that it will definitely be part of our menu this week. As soon as … Continue reading

Yummy Ham Glaze for a Small Ham

The good quality ham was on sale this week at our local grocery store, so I picked up a small one for one of our meals this week. I wanted to give it some flavor with a ham glaze. Most recipes, unfortunately result in enough glaze for a large ham, one that can feed the entire family for three nights. Instead, I wanted to still be able to enjoy the flavor of a glaze, without having a gallon of glaze left over, using partial ingredients, such as a quarter of a can of pineapple juice, or being forced to purchase … Continue reading

Why I Rarely Spend Money on Bathroom Products

Some people put in line items for bathroom products, cleaning products and then groceries. Usually, we lump all of these expenses together, since I most often buy groceries and cleaning products at the same time. I was thinking about bathroom products, though, all of those shampoos, soaps, body wash, etc., and curious about how much we spend. With the exception of some special toothpaste because of one child’s allergy, we really don’t spend much money on bathroom products. In fact, I can’t recall the last time that we did. So how do I get away with hardly spending anything on … Continue reading

When Buying Generic Doesn’t Pay

Are there times when it doesn’t pay to buy generic products? Of course there are. Use this handy guide to help you make the best savings decisions about when to buy generic groceries and when to stick with the name brands. When you can combine deals If you can combine two or more deals, you are usually better off buying name brand products. Use a manufacturer’s coupons plus a store coupon, or combine a manufacture’s coupon with a sale. You can also use a coupon, store coupon or manufacturer’s coupon with clearance items. Often when you combine two or three … Continue reading

Where to Get Free Product Coupons

Getting free coupons or coupons for free items can really reduce your grocery bill. People who practice extreme couponing know where to get and how to use these coupons that get them free groceries. A free item coupon is one that you can redeem at the grocery store for the full cost of the purchase. There are many different ways to get free item coupons. Just make sure that you get them in legitimate ways. There are many counterfeit coupons out there. Sunday Coupon Inserts You can sometimes find free product coupons in the Sunday inserts. They don’t come around … Continue reading

How to Fight Food Inflation

Even though I know food prices are rising rapidly, I still almost about fell over when I saw that a favorite box of snack mix had risen to $5.99! I left the snack mix on the shelf. This was the same day that we stopped for three slices of pizza, no drinks, at a cost of more than $9. Ouch. I won’t be doing that again any time soon. It doesn’t look like food prices will be going down or even stabilizing any time soon. This means that we have to adapt and find ways to fight this food inflation … Continue reading