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Step 1
Restaurants: Avoid going to restaurants whenever possible. Eating out costs 10 times or more what it costs to cook at home. If you are in a rush and don't have time to cook buy frozen or microwave meals at a grocery store. Although these are more expensive than cooking from scratch, they are still less than half the price of a restaurant meal. If you can not avoid going to the restaurant try to go before 3 pm so that you can get the lunch prices which may be as much as 50% less than dinner prices.
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Step 2
Edge: Shop on the outer aisles of the grocery store and avoid the interior aisles and products at the check stands. The outer aisles tend to have fresh veggies, fruits, eggs, milk, and meat which are less expensive per unit of food than the processed foods housed in the interior aisles. As an added benefit these outer aisle foods tend to be healthier for you. You can be healthier, loose weight, and save money- what a deal.
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Step 3
Eat: Eat right before you go shopping. This will make you less likely to give into impulse and buy high cost and unhealthy junk food and quick meals.
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Step 4
Freeze: Stock up on freezable items when they are on sale and thus low cost. This way you save money. Just make sure that they are healthy things you would eventually buy anyway, not high priced gourmet frozen meals.
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Step 5
Cook Extra: When you cook healthy food make extra. Then you can freeze the extra in small bags. Later when you want a quick meal you can pull them out and microwave them. It is a quick easy inexpensive way to avoid the temptation to eat out.
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Step 6
List: Have a list in the kitchen for grocery shopping and add to it as you go. This way when you go shopping you won't be as tempted to get things that you do not need that are not on the list.
Comments
JudyCutler1946 said
on 11/16/2008 Good article on saving money on food.