Where to Buy Food 2by Mary Ann Romans | More from this Blogger 15 Apr 2009 09:48 AM Traditional grocery stores are wonderfully convenient for grocery food shopping, but there are some other alternatives that can save you some money on your food bill. Explore the following options on where to buy food and reduce the cost of feeding your family. If you missed the previous post on this topic, you can click here: Where to Buy Food Bakery Thrift Store This is one of my favorite places to get bread, bagels, crackers, cookies and sometimes frozen foods. Some of the food is past its date, while other offerings are just overages from the grocery stores, when they produce more than the stores order. You'll pay less for your bread products in either case, with deeper discounts for the older products. Mart Store Walmart, Super Walmart and Target all offer food products. Many of their offerings are cheaper than the grocery stores for regular prices, and they also offer sales. for example, I find that Target has the best price on Arizona Green Tea. Bring your price book if you have one, and note the prices on your normal food purchases. Produce Center Make an effort to find out about your local produce center. This is a store that deals only with produce and nothing else. This type of store isn't necessarily a farmer's market, so you may not be able to purchase anything organic. Instead, be prepared to purchase your produce in bulk for the biggest savings. Butcher Believe it or not, the butcher shop really does exist. While you may no longer have a butcher around every corner, there are more butcher shops around than you might think. With a butcher shop, you have more flexibility in the cuts and types of meat that you want, whether or not to buy in bulk, etc. The butcher will also cut up a whole chicken or grind your meat for free, allowing you to pay less than the prepackaged stuff in the stores. Mary Ann Romans writes about everything related to saving money in the Frugal Blog, creating a home in the Home Blog, caring for little ones in the Baby Blog and now relationships in the Marriage Blog. You can read more of her articles by clicking here or subscribe to the blog using the subscription box on the right. Favorite Deal Websites: Related Articles: Things to Do with Expired Coupons A Guide to Salvage Grocery Shopping A Guide to Salvage Grocery Shopping 2 Five Little Grocery Shopping Tricks: Shelf Placement Coping with the Grocery Shrink Ray Adjusting Your Price Book with Escalating Grocery Costs Coping with No More Coupon Inserts New Grocery Shopping Techniques Five Little Grocery Shopping Tricks: Hide and Seek Learn more about Mary Ann Romans  Mary Ann Romans is a freelance writer, wife and mother of three children. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, the kids and a 16-pound cat. Relevantfrugal tags User Comments No comments on this article yet. Be the first to comment! Community Tags Food, frugal living, grocery shopping, saving money Discuss this article
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