What is the #1 way I have finally learned to save money on groceries?
The first and foremost way to budget your groceries is to have a meal plan – easy to say, hard to do – consistently. In comes E-Mealz! However, do I save money with coupons? Absolutely! Do I stockpile as much as possible? Absolutely. Do coupons or stockpiling help solve the dinnertime dilemma? Absolutely not! I wish. I could own my own grocery store for heaven’s sake and that still would not eliminate “the 5 o’clock stare” into my cupboard every day. Someone please just tell me what to fix! Thank goodness for E-Mealz! So is fooling with coupons really worth all the time I have to spend in the long run? After clipping, stacking, filing, sorting, expiring and the headache that comes with collecting coupons, I finally determined that there had to be a more realistic approach for this busy mom. After all, a .50-cent coupon here and a .75-cent coupon there to me were not worth the minutia when my brain was already taxed. I know I am not alone here! What was my lesson learned? Once again, my