Four Techniques for Cutting Your Grocery Bill

This is a guest post from Carrie Kirby, a blogger from Wise Bread and Shoplifting With Permission. If you like her post, please visit the blogs above and check out her other work!

When I write about spending $80 a week to feed my family of four in the Chicago area, I get two stock reactions: Members of the general public can’t believe how low that is and ask “What do you EAT?” Members of the frugal blog community shrug and say, “That’s not so low.”

Now that we have been on the $80 weekly budget for about a year, I agree with the second group. The better I get at bargain shopping, and the more my stockpile grows, the easier it is to stay below that threshold each week without even sacrificing treats like the occasional case of beer for my husband or ice cream for the kids (ok, for all of us). Instead of lowering my weekly target, lately I’ve been adding more and more organic produce and hormone-free, antibiotic-free meats.

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