My grocery bill dropped by almost $40 a week after I started planning around sales

I used to just buy whatever looked good at the store, and my weekly bill for two people was hitting $130 easy. About three months ago, I started checking the store flyer on my phone before I went and building my meal plan from what was on sale that week. Last week, chicken thighs were $1.99 a pound, so we had those three different ways, and broccoli was on sale too. I'm now averaging about $95 a week, and we're eating just as well. Has anyone else had luck with this method, or do you use a different trick to cut the food budget?

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elizabethhart8d ago

My meal plan is just whatever's on clearance.

bethh208d ago

My buddy Mark once got a whole cart of weirdly cheap lamb chops because the store misprinted the date. He had to grill them all that night and we ate lamb for a week straight. His freezer is still a mystery land of random markdown meats. It's a wild way to live but it works for him.