Do You Need some Cheap Grocery Shopping Ideas?

We found a great place to read, and to share, some great ideas for frugal food shopping! One of our sister websites, Frugal Mavens, is running a couple of contests which should help us all brainstorm and save money every week. Please visit before you make up your next grocery list!

Cheap Meal Planning Contest

This one involves meal planning for one dinner. The dinner should be healthy, tasty, and attractive to the tastes of a family with adults and kids. Entries should keep the per-person cost of each meal fairly low just to demonstrate that thrifty cooks can still provide great meals!

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Easy To Find Free Online Grocery Coupons

With the economic downturn, grocery coupons are all the hot rage! Where people were searching for the latest hot gadget, they now want grocery coupons. In fact, coupon parties have replaced tupperware parties as the latest neighborhood social event. Women and men attend these parties to learn “couponing” strategies, and even to exchange coupons.

Frugal Pig Has Free Online Grocery Coupons

In the spirit of being helpful, we have installed a COUPON WIDGET in our side bar that you can see to the right of this post. You can print them from your computer, and it does not cost you anything. Simply search for the grocery products like cleaning supplies and food that you would normally buy, and then see if you can save some money.

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How To Make A Cheap Steak Cut Tender and Tasty!

Even when we are struggling financially, it is great to celebrate with a good steak (unless you are a vegetarian). We know some great cooks with marinade recipes to make cheaper cuts of steak tender to cut and chew, and they also add a great taste!

You Need an Acid and an Emulsifier

A good marinade should enhance the meat’s natural flavor while making the meat more tender. Every good marinade needs an acid to break down connective tissue and tendorizer. It also needs an emulsifier which carries the marinade deeper into the meat so all of the action is not on the surface.

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Every time I visit the grocery store, it seems as if the prices have gone up. It is more important than ever, in a weak economy, to control those trips and put a lid on impulse buys. These are tips that I use, or ones that I have picked up from Frugal Pig readers and my friends. If you have any more cheap grocery shopping tips, feel free to add them to the contents!

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Is Bulk Grocery Shopping Really Saving You Money?

A lot of us visit the big package stores to buy in bulk and save money, but this strategy can backfire sometimes. Some of the problems with buying in bulk are storage, consuming more food then we would otherwise, and letting food go bad.

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Bread Is Expensive So Use it Stale Too!

Bread, along with all groceries, has gotten a lot more expensive lately. If your family runs through a loaf of bread as fast as my family does, this can really strain the budget. Of course, sometimes one loaf of bread gets eaten and another goes stale.

One of my favorite blogs, Cheapskate Living , has posted an article on the uses of stale bread, including a great recipe for bread pudding.

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Serve Breakfast For Dinner To Eat Healthy For Pennies

Your grocery bill will look more like 1999 if you switch to breakfast for dinner a few times a week. Plus, everybody likes breakfast food, and these meals are usually very quick to prepare. I actually got this idea from my brother who adopted this practice while he was putting himself through graduate school. I wanted to mention this to be fair. Not all frugal grocery shopping tips come from women!

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Forget the Shopping List

Oh it is a good idea to jot down staples that you have run out of. You need to remember to pick up ketchup and milk and toilet paper if you have run out. But I am not a big fan of detailed shopping lists. For one thing, I find it tedious to have to plan out an entire week of meals, and with the way my life runs, that list seldom works out for my family anyway. For another thing, when I shop sales, I need to plan meals on the fly.

Take a Calculator and Sticky Notes

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Cheap Fish Recipe with Tuna

We are all told to eat more fish, but sometimes that seafood counter has some pretty expensive prices. In order to be healthy, and get our share of fish, we need to turn to good old canned tuna and salmon. But tuna with mayo gets old after awhile. So let’s dress it up with a great recipe for tuna cakes. These are very similar to crab cakes, but cheap and easy to make!

By the way, a good way to handle your grocery budget in a frugal way, is to look for tuna and salmon on sale.

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Make Cheap and Easy Tacos and Tortillas

Most taco recipes do not include the tortillas. But I learned this from one of the most frugal cooks I ever met, and in my humble opinion, nothing tastes better then fresh tortilla right out of the pan. Compare fresh tortillas to packaged tortillas. Its like the difference between fresh bread and day old bread! And of course, it is much cheaper to make tortillas then it is to purchase them. On the other hand, time is money, and if you are pressed for time, don’t feel guilty about buying a package of tortillas either. Note: I added another cheap recipe for bisquick tortillas to the end of this post.

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