Planning is essential to maximize savings at the grocery store! If you want to save a lot of money on your groceries, you MUST take the time to plan. I like to think of grocery shopping as an art form and practice makes perfect! I’m totally serious about this. I won’t save on my grocery bill if I don’t take a few hours each week to plan where to get the best savings and which store to get them at.
Every Wednesday when my grocery store sales ads arrive in the newspaper, I will glance at them and start making my shopping list. On Thursday I will check and print coupons from my online sources, go through my coupon book, start clipping coupons from the week before and matching up what coupons I have with the items on sale that week. On Friday I will double check my list and my stockpile and finalize my shopping trip. It takes work, but on average I save about 55% on my grocery bill each week. The time is totally worth it!
