Tips For Your Next Grocery Shopping Day

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Posted by papaco • 8/14/09
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I wrote on my blog a very practical and interesting article about grocery shopping (coconutbistro.com).This is an excerpt:
1) Think about how name-brand, private-label (store brand) and generic products compare in price and volume/weight and quality.
2) Don't be deceived by eye-catching packaging, which is usually from more expensive brands with less quantity and higher prices.

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tonyb (9/04/09)

The importance of shopping for ALL the necessary ingredients to prepare a meal cannot be underestimated, either, when it comes to being able to get a meal done in 30 minutes.

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amybyrd21 (9/04/09)

I would love to have a pantry list for things you need to keep in the kitchen too. If any one has one. They also say do not shop from the middle shelf as it has the most expensive items on them. I have gotten where I make alot of those store bought things at home insted of buying them.

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Anniepooh (9/04/09)

The biggest thing I do to help efficiency and the budget is to make a list before I make a list. I take a not of everything I have on-hand already to keep from purchasing unnecessarily. I often times will find an entire meal in the pantry/freezer that I didn't realize was there. I then make my meal list based around what is already there and then the shopping list for other items I need.

We are lucky enough to have an ALDI very nearby, and I shop for the bulk of our food there. It's such a huge savings and the quality is the same, or better than, store brands and national brands that nobody is the wiser.

I get our shopping done for 9 of us for about $150 a week.

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  Theresa111 (9/04/09)
  
  Now that's some good shopping! Really though if you make a list and then pare it down, check when the stores are having sales and use the coupons (which I find I leave at home sometimes) you can get more for your money.
  
  We have a store called Lotte, which is Asian. The produce is so inexpensive I usually buy too much and then find I have to use a lot of it before it dies.