They can because they think they can. –Virgil
You’ve decided you want to start lowering your grocery bill, but you keep making excuses. And quite frankly, you’re not sure it’s possible.
First of all, you need to put your attitude in check, leave your excuses at the door and commit to make a change. Perhaps your family has dietary restraints or you eat only organic or you live in the middle of nowhere. It is my belief that anyone can lower their grocery bill. After all, spending only $10 less on your weekly shopping trip still saves you $520 a year!
The grocery budget is one area of the budget that can be quite easy to manipulate, with a bit of effort. It’s much harder to reduce a mortgage payment or a hydro bill, in my opinion.
But, lowering your grocery bill will not happen if you’re not willing to make it happen.
Over the next month or so, I’ll be doing a series of posts with my tips on how you can trim your grocery bill. Since I don’t know of anyone that doesn’t get a bit of a thrill from saving money I think you might find the posts quite useful! I promise though, what I share won’t be difficult to learn. Many of you probably put some of my tips to use already! My plan is to share two posts a week, most likely Wednesday’s and Friday’s.
One final thought for today: Ultimately, it really isn’t about how much you save but how much you spend. 
I am really looking to save some money lately. I love when you match the flyers with coupons but i’m having a hard time trying to find RedPlum and SmartSource inserts. How do I find out if my local paper carrys them. I living in Whitby, Ontario.
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Simply Frugal Reply:
January 28th, 2011 at 8:49 am
Hi Laura, You could make a quick call to your local newspaper and ask if these inserts are included. That would be my best advice. Here is the link to the 2011 coupon insert schedule if that will help you out even further: http://www.simplyfrugal.ca/2010/12/canadian-coupon-insert-schedule-for-2011-smartsource-redplum/
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Lindsay Reply:
January 29th, 2011 at 10:02 am
Laura, I live in Oshawa and the This Week newspaper does carry both of those inserts as well as the P&G brandsaver. Keep your eye out!
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Im really looking forward to this series! I am always looking for ways to save on groceries, and still eat healthy.
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I’m glad you’re doing that! Can’t wait to read it.
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I’m really looking forward to this also!! I feel like I’m already doing “pretty good” with some changes I’ve made over the last few months, however, I’m always in the market for more ways to save, but still eat healthy!!
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Can’t wait to read all about!!! LOVE saving money.
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I am SO looking forward to this one …. I eat organic and always end up paying a fortune ….I can’t wait …YAY !
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im just wondering how you save money by printing off coupons…doesn’t it cost alot for the ink used to print them?
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