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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 →

Shopping from a Surplus

The act of shopping from a surplus will help you save money on groceries. When you shop from a deficit, you will always pay more money. Here is some information that will help explain the practice of shopping from a surplus and how you can do it to lower your grocery bill. Imagine a typical grocery shopping week. You sit down and make your list, or maybe you just hot the store knowing what it is you need. Chances are your list contains ingredients that you know you will need for that week. You are in the mood for hamburgers, … Continue reading →

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 →

Buying Bulk Organic Food

You can save money on organic food when you buy it in bulk. Sometimes, you can even save over the cost of a non organic product. Here is how we did it. If you do a lot of cooking at home, and hopefully you do since it can save money and be better for your health, you can really benefit from buying certain organic items in bulk. We make a trip about every five or six months (depending on how our schedule works out) to the bulk natural food store to stock up on some items that we need. The … Continue reading →

Save 50% on Vitamins From Netgrocer!

Fall is here, and that means that the weather will be changing from nice, warm, sunny days, to much cooler temperatures. For many people, this is the time of year when they are likely to catch a cold. School has started, and students are being exposed to all kinds of germs, viruses, and flu bugs that are going around. One way to stay healthy this Fall is to make sure you are taking your vitamins! Save 50% on your vitamins from Netgrocer. Everyone needs to get a certain amount of vitamins in their diet. This not only helps the body … Continue reading →

Save Money on Vitamins at Lucky Vitamin

In order to maintain good health, one of the things you need to do is to make sure you take all of your vitamins. A good way to do that is to make sure your diet includes exactly what you need. For most people, this is not very easy. Instead, many people prefer to take supplemental vitamins, in order to stay healthy. Purchasing bottles of vitamins, especially if more than one person in your family is using them, can quickly get very expensive. You can save some money on vitamins if you shop from the Lucky Vitamin website. They have … Continue reading →