Recent Posts Tagged With 'groceries'

• Tips from the Thriftiest Family in America

  Posted on Monday March 16th, 2009 at 11:16 in budget, shopping, Security, frugal, saving, groceries, cutting expenses

  The self-proclaimed Thriftiest Family in America, the Economides, are a family of seven who live easily on approximately $44,000 a year and they are anxious to spread the word. They have some good tips to share. If you’ve been looking for ways to p...

• Inaccurate Grocery Store Pricing?

  Posted on Monday March 2nd, 2009 at 08:00 in frugality, groceries

  We all know that it’s important to keep an eye on your items as they are getting rung up at the grocery store in order to catch the all too common errors. Sometimes this is a little easier said than done, at least for me. First I thought that knowi...

• Creating a Price Book

  Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 08:00 in budget, frugality, groceries, cutting expenses

  Green Panda Treehouse recently sent out a Tweet about an article she was thinking about writing on price books. We decided it would be fun to do concurrent, collaborative posts on this topic. Go read her article, which is a broader overview on the su...

• Managing the Family Table

  Posted on Saturday November 8th, 2008 at 11:51 in family, budget, cooking, frugality, groceries, cutting expenses

  As a follow-up to my post on Shock at the Grocery Store, here is an excellent tip I recently received from one of my readers who is a stay-at-home mom with a lot of practice stretching a dollar. In addition to the good economics of her tip, she, lik...

• Shock at the Grocery Store

  Posted on Monday November 3rd, 2008 at 10:10 in budget, money, shopping, frugal, gardening, groceries, cutting expenses

  (open air market near Issigeac, France)If you’ve been to the grocery store lately you can’t have failed to notice the huge jump in prices. Where I live is notorious for having high food prices on everything except meat. I went to the grocery st...