Adventures in Grocery Shopping!

I have to admit something, as much as I like shopping I hate grocery shopping. I always blank out on what we need. I also get frustrated when my husband deciedes he wants to be healthy and asks me to get brocoli or something and then it sits in my fridge until it goes bad. I hate spending all that money on food.

I head about this thing called the grocery shopping game - its a coupon program in which you sign up, start saving your sunday coupons and then they tell you when to use the coupons as they figure out who is having the sales, and where the best prices care. They actually give you a list and you just buy from the list and use the coupons they tell you to use. I have not signed up so I can't tell if it is that great I am thinking about it as they do free trials for a month I think. I have been told to save up 4 weeks of coupons before you start though. If you shop at Walmart or Costco it doesn't apply though as they go with usually chain grocery stores. I think they include CVS though and that type of thing for medication products and such though.

I kinda shop all over the board. I have a Harris Teeters near me, and I really like it though it can be expensive. However they double coupons every day up to .99 on whatever. This is usually when I go. Just this week I scored toothpaste for .50 because I had a nice coupon that doubled on it.

I also have a foodlion down the street to. I am not much of a foodlion lover as mine was all gross and unclean or at least I thought so after I bought bagels with ants in them, and I actually at a bagel before noticing. But mine has remodeled so from time to time I still with pop in if I need something last minute. They do not double coupons but their prices are pretty good. Walmart of course is always bottom dollar prices, I just hate going there unless its 5am or something as its always crowded. So I might get by there once a month if I am lucky.

I am also lucky enough to have a Trader Joes nerby as well. Their milk prices are always low- so I try to get my milk there or Costco as they seem to have the cheapest prices, and believe me we go through some Milk with my oldest. If we owned a cow the cow just wouldn't be able to supply us with enough.

Costco does not take coupons but their prices are always nice if you want mass quantites. We get household items there like papertowels, toilet paper, etc. My location does not carry Pampers or the formula we use which erks me to no end, but we get the kirkland wipes which I think are the best. Dave has a membership to Sams so he will grab formula and pampers. Much cheaper then buying them elsewhere. If you have a BJ's you can get diapers and what not AND they accept coupons.

I guess I try to make grocery shopping fun by making a game out of trying to get the best deals around to make it a little more interesting.

I might try that grocey shopping game thingy for the free trial to see if its any good. I think after your trial its $1.00 a week or something, so thats not bad.