Take Advantage of Your Local Discount Grocery Store

Take Advantage of Your Local Discount Grocery Store
They’re the ones that carry most off brands but feature a small variety of brand name products. At my Save-a-lot I like their brand of dairy, some of their canned foods and frozen foods.

Check your coupon organizer
When you run across name brand items, sometimes they are a spill over from a sale at other stores and will still carry the sale price or even less. Take advantage and stock up.

Test taste it
When you use ingredients in most recipes it doesn’t matter what brand you use as long as it has what you need. If you are set in your ways about a certain brand, then don’t bother. If you could go either way then try something new. You’ll never know unless you try.

Meat, produce and bread are stocked according to who owns the store
Find out if it’s a locally owned or a corporate owned discount grocery store and that will tell you how fresh every thing is or how fresh it isn’t.

Plan meals around bulk priced meat and discounted produce
Don’t be afraid to meal plan while standing at the meat counter. Just don’t forget the starch and vegetables.

Bag it yourself
Take advantage of bringing your own cloth or plastic bags to cut down on plastic usage.