I feed my family of six on 250$ a month. That's right, now that I've moved to a bigger home I have more obligation to pinch my pennies.
The simple way I do it, though time consuming, I price match.
I don't coupon because I haven't gotten into it and maybe I'd save more... also we have wic which is helpful (you don't have to be dirty poor to qualify either people, you can make 62k a year with a family my size and still qualify)
Anyways I get the ad's and go through them only AFTER I've made my meal list and needs, after I write out my meals I write a list of those ingredients, then going through my ads i put the price from the ad next to the item on my list... I use a different color pen to write a approximate cost next to the items I'm not price matching, I then calculate the total cost of my trip rounded up and then estimated tax (Utah tax for food is 3 percent)
This way I know what I'm going to spend and if I aimed to high and Wal-Mart's prices are lower I get to buy a treat ;-)
See it's easy plan at least 3 hours shopping though. Sometimes I go to winco for their bulk.
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