Cut Your Food Bill

“Green” products are all the rage.  All natural, grain-fed, and free range are just some of the labels that marketers put on food packaging.  We all want to help the environment, and we all want to eat healthy, but what do those labels really mean?  Unfortunately in many cases those words don’t mean anything.  They [...]

Grocery stores are famous (or infamous) for selling out of date or almost out of date products.  A grocery store never wants to dispose of anything, so when they restock the shelves, they put the new product at the back.
Unless you check the dates of everything on the shelves, you can easily end up buying [...]

We all know that you can save money by buying in bulk, right?  Yes, there is no doubt that the price per pound of a 25 pound bag of potatoes is less than the cost per pound of buying one potato at a time.  So, where practical, buy in bulk.
But, be careful.  How long will [...]

Always eat before shopping.  It’s obvious that if you shop while hungry, you will buy more (in fact, there is lots of research to prove it).  When you are hungry, everything looks good, so you buy it.
Be smart: have a meal, then go shopping.  You won’t be hungry, so you will buy less.

Save money by leaving your kids at home.  Shopping with children can be more expensive than shopping alone.  Your kids will ask you to buy that expensive, sugary cereal they saw advertised on television.  Without them, you won’t be tempted.  When children act up, you are more likely to buy them candy to keep them [...]

You try to eat healthy, but buying imported vegetables during winter and spring can be very expensive.  How can you eat healthy and save money?  Try root vegetables like potatoes, or winter squash.  They are cheaper, you can store them longer, and they are still nutritious.
You can save even more money by buying in bulk.  [...]

Unless you are a vegetarian, you eat meat.  Meat can be healthy, but it can also be expensive.  So how can you get your protein and other nutrition without spending half of your food budget on a nice juicy steak?  Either become a vegetarian, or become a flex-a-tarian.  In other words, be flexible.
Try beans, or [...]