Ways to Save!

I just thought I'd include a short note about ways to save when grocery shopping. My mom and dad (The Mazzarolo's) are super frugal shoppers-they get a substantial amount but the pay very little. One simple thing is to always look for the pink (or whichever colour your store uses) reduced stickers. I'm always careful when buying reduced meat, but they get their salad dressings, nut butters, snack foods, etc...ridiculously cheap because they get them reduced or on clearance. If you try to match up coupons with sales-even better. Couponing can be a LOT of work, however, and very time consuming, so unless you get one of the coupon books in the newpaper (P&G or the Smartsave ones) that come with pages of coupons, or you know of a store that always offers printable coupons (like Michael's Arts and Crafts) there are easier ways.

Many grocery stores will price match, most noteably-Freshco. Freshco happens to be the most convenient store for us to as it's right near the corner where I nanny three (adorable!) little girls so we'll often go on our way home from work. We bring our Metro, Longo's, No Frills, Food Basics, and Sobeys flyers with us (pre-marked and with everything written on a list) and it's ridiculous how much we save.

Today for example, I splurged and bought a bunch of the 450 ml Bolthouse Farms Smoothies because they were half price, and I picked up broccoli, cucumber, bananas, 2 Liberte Mediterranean Style Strawberry Yogurt, the oh-so-pricey Mascarpone cheese, Ricotta cheese, and Parmesan Cheese (for our next cooking venture!) and so much more for under $50 and half of what we budgeted. It's easy, not so time consuming as couponing and why pay full price when you don't have to.

Have a great day!

Today's Groceries (note: there is not a lot of produce as we bought most of that at the end of this past week):
p.s. This is also including 3 types of (expensive) cheese which wouldn't be in a regular grocery bill and four smoothies!