One place people waste a lot of money is at the grocery store. And you probably don’t even know it! Look, over the past several years I have seen and heard it all. It always shocks me when people tell me how much they spend at the grocery store and act like it is normal. “Oh I only spend like three hundred dollars a week.”

Uh, HELLO, my family of five (plus dinner guests) survives just fine on about one hundred a week at the grocery store. Wouldn’t you love to find where that other hundred dollars (or more) goes and have an extra four hundred or more in your pocket every month?

The reality is, if you throw stale food, leftovers or moldy fruit into the trash, you are throwing away your hard-earned money. Let me repeat that so you really get it, pitching your food in the trash literally equals cash in the trash!

Want to know THE number one best way to save money at the grocery store? Meal planning! Taking a little bit of extra time to map out your food for the week will always save you from throwing out extra.

But today I want to share a few tips to help you out while actually in the store, list in hand. This is where the real damage occurs.

• Let’s start with produce! Don’t buy any of the prepackaged, pre-sliced, pre-cut fruits or veggies. They cost more money and usually pumped full of disgusting hormones and preservatives.
• Don’t buy cheese that is already grated. They may appear to be the same price but check the weight! More often than not you get twice as much cheese in a block than you do in a bag or a package of sliced cheese. And guess what, grated cheese has additives!
• Make your own salad dressing. You can buy a package of seasoning for mere cents, add it to vinegar and olive oil to make your own, fresh, salad dressing. It’s healthier for you and way cheaper. Checkout my all time favorite Homemade Garlic Dressing.
• Don’t throw out old bread. Use stale bread to make your own croutons! In general, always try to re-purpose old food or leftovers with a bit of imagination instead of just throwing it away. Google a quick recipe or instructions for free and easy ideas.
• Buy the whole chicken. Instead of purchasing single breasts, cook the whole chicken. Plan multiple meals with the meat and save the broth for another meal!
• Recognize we often pay more for convenience and that money quickly adds up! Not to mention those extra additives that come with pre-packaged-over-processed-crap make you fat, sick and broke.
• Cook in bulk and eat the leftovers for lunch or another dinner later that week.  I created a 5 day Crockpot Challenge to help you meal plan, cook healthy foods in bulk and save TONS on your grocery bill.  Grab your FREE Crockpot Meal Plan TODAY!

Feel free to download my FREE Clean Eating KICKSTART Guide that has healthy recipes, meal planner and grocer shopping list plus so much more! CLICK any image or HERE to download your guide!

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