by Teri Cettina | Mar 10, 2009 | Coupons, Food & Groceries
I’ve been “playing” The Grocery Game for more than a year. See this post for more info, but it’s basically an online service that tracks weekly sales at your selected grocery store (I use Safeway), notifies you and tells you how to combine...
by Teri Cettina | Mar 9, 2009 | Food & Groceries, Frugality, House & Home
One of my all-time favorite money-saving family projects of the past year is our cute backyard chickens. Ok, ok, we also wanted some outdoor pets, since my hubby is allergic to the standard indoor stuff (cats, dogs, rabbits, gerbils, etc.). But seriously, now that...
by Teri Cettina | Jan 7, 2009 | Budgeting, Food & Groceries
This one little tool: A hand-held row counter. (Mine is this one by Clover.) In knitting, you click it at the end of every row, and it helps you keeps track of your work so you stay on pattern. But after buying it, I realized it was just what I needed for grocery...
by Teri Cettina | Jun 23, 2008 | Banking, Food & Groceries, House & Home
Whenever I’m poring over grocery ads and clipping coupons, I wonder: Are we big food spenders compared to our parents’ and grandparents’ generations? I don’t feel like we buy a lot of expensive or convenience food, yet somehow I’ve always had a gut instinct that we...
by Teri Cettina | Jun 16, 2008 | Food & Groceries, Frugality
My family goes through a lot of sandwich fixings. The kids eat sandwiches almost every day, as does my hubby. But buying the meat gets spendy! I don’t love the packaged, thin-sliced meats filled with sodium, though they’re cheap. And the sliced deli meat...
by Teri Cettina | Apr 22, 2008 | Coupons, Food & Groceries
Saving money at the grocery store is something I fuss about and research all the time. I guess it’s because our monthly grocery budget feels a little more–flexible?–than, say, the monthly mortgage payment, school tuition and all of our other fixed...
