Where are all the bargains?

**Cricket1** · 08-22-2006, 09:09 PM

I went grocery shopping last night and was bummed b/c I couldn't find any good deals. All of my coupons stunk, too. I'm so sick of "Buy 2 and get 5 cents off." Okay, I'm exaggerating, but I was a little frustrated. I get so jealous when I see people getting $50.00 worth of food for 27 cents!!!

Okay, I'm done my whining. Do you think it's b/c the kids are going back to school next week and grocery stores know that parents are going to have to pack lunches again?

**kabin63** · 08-22-2006, 11:06 PM

Do you have an Aldi store near you? I don't use coupons myself, mainly for the very same reasons you mentioned, but if I go to Aldi I can buy quite a bit for my mom. I think the most I ever spent there was $85 and I had 10 bags of groceries. I think that's pretty good and I didn't buy anything I didn't use.

**Shellshome** · 08-22-2006, 11:17 PM

I play the grocery game (I heard about it on Food Network) and that is how I am getting my savings. I don't get the list that they want you to pay for but I learn from the discussion board things that are going to be good deals.

I watch the ads and match up coupons to that. Just since I have started in June I have saved over $500 in groceries. I think it all depends on how much time you have to devote to coupon and list watching. I do this on sunday and sit down with my coupons and ads and go thru them to see what it what.

This week I have over $100 in coupons and almost everything is sale items.

It isn't hard to do if you have the time to do it and want to do it.

**Nada.Leona** · 08-23-2006, 06:42 AM

I watch the flyers and stock up when it comes in. Recently, two kg. of Kraft peanut butter was on sale for 3.69 each (normally 5.69 at the cheapest place I could find). I love peanut butter and use it to supplement some protein in my diet, so I bought two jars. That should last me til the next time I buy.

I also keep a price book, clip out the items I want from the flyers, with the date and store written on them, and paste them in a scrap book, so I can track the time between sales. For example, I know that at one grocery store about four months ago, they had BOGO on boneless skinless chicken breasts. Well, just a week ago, another store had BOGO on them too. So now I can assume it'll be four months before they go on sale again.

loves chicken, but refuses to buy it unless it's on sale. So he bought $60 worth of the chicken, giving him $120 worth for his money (then he cut the breasts in half, because they were a pretty good size, and got $240 worth of portions for his original $60).