With the cost of groceries going up, many families are searching for ways to lower the cost of their groceries every month. Typical great suggestions is using coupons, using a price book, and shopping the sales. Another well known tip is using a grocery list and planning your menu. Taking this well known tip one step farther, plan for meals that cost under a dollar per serving or a low cost per recipe.
About.com turns up several recipe ideas such as breakfast that are under 45 cents per serving, lunches under 50 cents per serving, and dinners under a dollar. Although their cost is estimated they will still be great ideas for creating a low cost menu for a family.
Hillbilly Housewife focuses on low cost cooking from scratch information. Here I was able to find a $45 emergency menu for a week which includes all three meals and snacks. She also lists a shopping list already prepared. Then there is the $70 low cost menu too. This I found much better then scoping out the grocery store for frozen 10 to $10 deals.
Cheap Cookingalso has a lot of low cost recipes to help lower the cost of cooking. This site also offers articles to help you make food items stretch farther.
Miserly Moms also offers a lot of low cost recipes. This site also offers tips to be able to make your dollar go farther when it comes to food.
Using the above sites or searching for your own will help to lower your grocery bill every month without eliminating good food that everyone loves. By planning low cost meals by knowing what is on sale at the store or by what coupons you have will decrease your grocery bill. Allow there are many likes and dislikes of the loyalty card for grocery stores, I do know that whether or not it is really saving compared to price it would be if the store didn’t have the card, they do and so I get the savings. By searching what is going to be on sale, using my low cost recipes, and my coupons, I can successfully turn my $115 grocery bill into closer to $75 saving me a total of $40 a week. So take a look at these sites when you go to plan your grocery list.
