How to Save on Your Grocery Bill
Okay, so some people have asked me how do you do your grocery shopping? And first of all, before I do any grocery shopping, I sit down at my computer with my husband, believe it or not, and we plan out a whole menu for the next month. So every day, there’s a different item, all the pink item are what we’re going to eat for that night, for supper. And the brown item is the dessert for each week. So we have four desserts and 30 possible meals. Next, one main reason why I do it on a computer is because I have an ipod touch, and with my ipod touch, I’m able to transfer the menu from my computer to my ipod touch. So I’m able to see, you know, what I’m going to eat for that night if I’m out and about or if I’m up in the morning early and I don’t feel like cutting on my computer, I can look at my ipod touch instead to see what kinds of meat I need to pull out for that night’s supper or for the next day. If you don’t have a, like an ipod touch or a palm pilot or a blackberry, you can also use any menu or a calendar feature on your computer and then just print out your menu for the month and you post it on your fridgerator for everyone to see. After we’ve created everything in our menu for the month, next we will go and write out what groceries that we need for the next month. Now it may sound weird, but we only go to the grocery store once a month. At the beginning of the month, we go to the grocery store and buy everything that we need for the next month and then we don’t have to go to the store, maybe once or twice within the month, just to get like milk. So, it’s really a great way to shop, and it saves us money by doing it that way. What else do I need to tell you about it, oh, after we get our little list made up, by doing the month and doing the list, we’re able to find what items we can buy in bulk and what items, how many of each item we’ll need to buy for, to make the meals throughout the month. So that is my tip. My money saving tip for today is to utilize your calendar feature on your computer and create a menu for the next month. If you can't shop once a month, then I will suggest shopping every couple of weeks, just making, making sure that you create a menu first. That way that you don’t over buy, you don’t buy things that you don’t need or won't eat in the next, you know, couple weeks to a month. I’m the domestic diva, and to find out more about me or more money saving tips, please visit me at thedomesticdiva.org.