Posted on 11/08/2009 2:46:52 PM PST by Daisyjane69
Even if I believed that 1% figure (which I don't) that is a staggering sum of money.
Think about it...One percent of all the $$$$ spent on food at the grocery store.
Everybody needs to eat, and everybody needs groceries.
How much did you buy lately? Multiply that by everyone that you can think of in the nation.
BKMK
My wife and I have walked out of Walgreens with about twenty bags of diapers and other merchandise and walked out with more than $80 worth of registry rewards to the good. We made money. The registry rewards were spent the next week on food, all free.
This stuff can indeed happen. She filled her van with groceries for $.06 in the video.
You’re welcome!
And the best thing to come of this thread is learning that we freepers are blessed with our own resident expert on this, TriGirl. Who knew? LOL
btw, I just returned from the grocery store. Felt guilty because I didn’t have a coupon!
:)
The real trick is use a combination of tactics, like you list -
I'm out foraging for dandelions and fiddleheads before my garden comes up. I only have room - and back - for a small garden, so stick to a limited variety: salad stuff like tomatoes, cukes and lettuce. Squash, string beans, carrots. And herbs. Herbs cost a fortune.
I buy mostly frozen vegetable - they are flash frozen right out of the field, while 'fresh' veggies have been out of the ground for up to 2 weeks,in travel, cold storage and 'reconstitution.'
However, here is one place that buying the name brand, at a bit more, is smart. Take broccoli, for example. The broccoli comes in from the fields for washing/packing - in boxes from the most expensive brands to the least - all in the same plant, from the same fields. The thing is, the more expensive brands get packed first - which means the freshest, early morning pick - and the best pieces. As the day goes on, and the sun gets higher, the broccoli isn't quite as fresh and has lost some nutrition. So to get the most nutrition, get the higher brands as pertains to vegetables.
Now for stuff like baking soda - baking soda, made by nature, is baking soda. Get the cheapest.
I also watch for bargains in organic foods. And some I will buy only in organic. Take carrots: carrots absorb pesticides and such so have them all the way through "systemic". And they have up to 24 chemicals/pesticides in non-organic carrots.
I make up for the expense of organics by eating a little less - while getting better nutrition...win-win. (I've also gone from 186 to 140, and holding steady for years. So I win all the way around.)
BTTT!
;)
What Frugal Thread?
Where the heck is that?
You guys holdin’ out on the rest of us? ;)
Okay I gotta get some tips from your blog and start cutting. Two adults and 1 two year old and your grocery bill doesn’t even make a dent in mine. Drives me insane how much my wife spends on groceries...
Just pinged you to the thread...Weekly roundup
Love your website and want to read it more later. Even with using couponclippers.com I’ve never been able to get everything together in 2 to 3 hours, that’s great that you’ve been able to. Although it might be food our family doesn’t normally eat, if I can get it for free I will store it, you never know what can happen and I would rather have it as not. Unfortunately, we are taxed 8.5% on the dollar and taxed on the before coupon amount. The lady in the ABC report must be in a state where they don’t pay taxes on groceries. Getting $200.00 groceries for free would still cost me $17.00.
Getting 7 1/4 lb portions of fish for free is really against the spirit of the offer, especially as it costs the store more in wages to cut 7 portions of fish. My store sometimes has an offer of $1 less per pound on one kind of fish if you buy more than a pound and I’m sure this woman’s supermarket will close the loophole after this show when twenty customers line up to make bouillabaisse.
Thank you!
Come to think of it, I used to be on this ping list and now I don’t get pinged anymore. LOL
I’m pretty sure Taco Bell doesn’t use actual beans any more. Just bean flakes...I think everything there is just “add water.”
Yes, when I was single I ate very cheaply using coupons, but the food I ate was all processed stuff. I work full time, and so does my husband, and I have a two year old...we get convenience food sometimes, but I pay extra for the stuff with minimal ingredients. I have tried to get back into coupon clipping again because it was so cheap, but I can’t “stomach” the ingredients lists on most of the food I find coupons for.
If this coupon game becomes common, I expect the rules of the game to change. Grocery stores and food manufacturers cannot afford to give this much food away.
>> she’s getting mainly processed food
>>and nearly-useless general merchandise
Yep. And if a larger number of people exploited these “benefits”, the gravy train would soon be derailed by the simple eliminaton of manufacturer’s profits.
hello—i was able to get to your site yesterday, but cannot get to it today... please help!
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