Saving Money at the Grocery Store-
I have come up with several tools that can cut your bill in half with the same amount of product.
1) Its okay to buy the mystery meat, the mystery meat, is usually the meat that comes with a red lining that you have to remove. But to be plain and simple, the mystery meat may still be meat or not, but it’s on the isle for a reason. To satisfy the end customer’s needs. God I look at the isle recently and the mystery meat is 89 cents; this is the store brand mystery meat. It’s a bologna concoction, with a mix of all the goodies your diet lacks. Keep in my mind 89 cents
2) Shop the store brand products- or shop a dollar value minded store. You cannot taste the difference in Store brand cereal. There on the shelf for a reason because they feel they can not only compete with kellogs but they can offer to you for a product similar. Sometimes there are surprises like the chocolate pieces, I had some last week, but if your kids are obsessed with name brand products. Download a screen saver and or desktop page and let them watch it while eating. Plus the toys in the box, the toys in the box are pretty simple right? Buy them at the dollar store. Cereal-99 cents Including store bought bread 78 cents. Store bought milk- 1.50 Right, these prices are true. You’ve got a week’s worth of meals, both breakfast and lunch for under 5 dollars.
3) Buy and shop for causes- the cool thing that companies like Proctor and Gamble and also the breast cancer society are doing are they offering products for cheap to support a good cause. I lifted up a bottle of Dawn and I was like hmm, it was cheaper in store and they are doing a great thing for a great cause, neat. The breast Cancer society this month is doing the same thing, so to add variety for dinner let’s say you buy Pizza Rolls, Some microwavable dinners and meals in a box. For a week for two people you shouldn’t spend over 12 dollars. So I just cut your spending money from 30 dollars of groceries for two people. To less than 20. Make sure to get your veggie’s in the meals, but bam in under ten minutes of me writing this blog, I just cut your spending from 3000 a year. To under twelve hundred dollars a year. But now you can afford to spoil yourself, because in a month you should have forty and a lot of these companies or restaurants you can dine for under 15 dollars for two with a drink. So you can choice to spoil or save, that’s the beauty of it.
4) This is a resourceful tool if you don’t want to buy the mystery meat, the meat that has the read label, that has a priced slashed is because consumers are buying it…it’s because the meat man cut too many cows up and has to get rid of it before it spoils. So if you don’t have a deep freeze refrigerator like I don’t, you have to consume the product pretty quick. But it is still a good product. They call it the best use date for a reason you can still use the product you just have to use it quick. For example, let’s say the typical meat may last in the refrigerator to de-thaw three days; you have a steak dinner for the price of a ninety nine cent menu for the same price as ninety nine cent menu. And don’t let me people lie to you a steak is a steak, I’m from texas I know after you’ve eaten as many steaks as I’ve eaten, it’s a steak. Just depends on the chef. My mom is my chef, yes I said and that woman knows how to cook if her life depended on it. So a steak from mom’s cooking is a steak all the same.
5) If your cheap and on a diet buy soups and Ramen- Let’s be real America, how many of us have eaten Ramen and been a day later, and not remembered what we ate but we know we ate well. They are 250-300 calories, from 33 cents to a dollar and a full meal. I’m fat, I like my Ramen with Salsa de tomate and a steak, duh, but I can’t afford it. Soups are great way to get veggie’s and meat. A lot are high in sodium, but you got to give up something to get something right?
6) Eat the samples- Don’t eat a lot of them duh, don’t do that right? But they are free samples for a reason, I love donuts, I really do love donuts, so I eat off the donut isle sometimes. Ask anyone that knows me I eat and have a complete Homer Simpson moment and he’s a fictional character on television. Free cookies, when they open up a box they don’t say just take one, take a couple save them for your kids or people in the house. You take seven cookies, when they got fifty, put them in a napkin and give them to your kid everyday of the week, boom you’ve got desert for a week.
7) Eat the prepared Chickens that they have especially if they have a clock on them. The clock means that they hey eater beware because it’s not fresh. That’s why you will see products marked down to a dollar, etc, etc. But they taste the safe going down as a regular chicken. You have to sacrifice some quality, and this is psychological quality because it may taste different, but you know you won’t remember it a month from now, your broke you have to worry about other things.
8) I’m being real too, if you can’t afford it, there are a lot of organizations including the one I want to start that caters to people that can’t afford groceries. Soup kitchens, Churches, non-profits such as myself in the future.
9) If all else fails marry someone that can cook on the cheap or live with mom’s my mom’s can cook, I saw a commercial with Donovan McNabb and his mom for Campbell’s soup and I was like I can relate to the advertisers because my mom’s can cook. You know how good she cooks, when I was making money, I sent her money back home for groceries not for her groceries but groceries so she could send me food up there in dry ice. That’s how good all moms can cook, now there are some anomalies duh not all mom’s can cook and not all women can cook, I’m not being sexist, but find someone a roommate, or someone that can cook on the cheap.
10) And just be honest with your pocket book, because I know medicine, other goods are needed and if you can’t afford it don’t buy it. Because its food, and I’ve had to sallow my pride to get things from a church. I wanted to say do you know who I was, but people don’t care and you shouldn’t either because if you need the help it’s there, and a lot of these churches, non profits do it with open arms. Like if I ever make it, right, to where I’m super duper rich, I’d lose money to keep a soup kitchen or my non profit open, because I know the volunteers, clients and people get it for free and it should be shared with everyone. You get it right?
The Next Blog is going to be about how to save money on eating out, after that will be on drinking cheap and other resourceful tools you need.
