Think about how much the food in your pantry/cupboard/refrigerator is worth. How much did you spend on it? How much will you throw away? Like the clutter that piles up over years of day to day life, so the food in our homes will multiply and grow until we toss out the unused and useless. The difference between material clutter and edible clutter is the turnover rate.
Thousands of your dollars are wasted by buying those odds and ends that end up lying around the house and shoved in the attic, but they endure for quite a while and, rarely, may even grow in value someday. Not so with food, as it degrades and disintegrates at a much faster rate. Thus you spend more and more money to replace it, only to have the refuse relegated to the back of the fridge and ultimately the trash. The only solution is actually something that your mother told you when you were young:
"Take only what you can eat, and you better eat what you take!"
Your mother was right. And her advice will save you thousands of dollars, maybe more. But cutting back on our purchasing is not that hard. We all know how, just make a list and stick to it. Plan your meals around what you have already etc...
What really can be a challenge is saving money on the groceries you have to buy, the stuff you know you'll use day in and day out. That's why I made this 10 step program, more of a routine to get into really, designed to cut your grocery bill by more than half.
I've been practicing what I preach for more than 5 years now and I calculate the amount I've saved over what I would be spending to be something in the area of $8,000. Over 5 years that might not seem to be a lot. But the lessons I learned and the thought processes I've adopted transfer into all other avenues of life that involve spending money, not just the small world of grocery shopping. I can't even estimate the money I've been able to save on basically everything just by thinking about purchasing stuff differently.
I've divided this guide up into 10 segments or steps for simplicity and to minimize the perceived learning curve. The principles of each subsequent lesson build on those learned in the previous ones and serve to refine your grocery shopping practices to the point where you'll lesson your grocery bill and be able to brag about it.
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