Well like everyone else in America, hard times have fallen upon our family as well! So in an effort to save money, I decided to start clipping and using coupons. The first day I started clipping coupons, I became so overwhelmed with the large amounts of coupons needing clipped, the lists needing to me made for the different grocery stores, and the planning needed to be put into deciding what our family was going to eat for the entire week!! You see we have always been the type of family that around 5pm, we are asking each other, "What are we eating tonight?"! Very rarily was this predetermined! Most of the time it was where are we going to eat tonight! So, to think about, schedule, and plan what we were eating for the entire week, was extremely overwhelming to me. But I have to say after week 2 of doing this, its not as bad as I initially thought!! Last Tuesday I went to Bi-Lo and Ingles with my coupons, and looked through there weekly sales papers! I only had $75 to spend, and I spent $71.23. I saved $25.37 at Bi-Lo's and $13.86 at Ingles! This week I had $100 to spend on breakfast, lunch, and dinner (including Thanksgiving Dinner)! This also includes a 13lb turkey, smoking hickory chips, charcoal, and lighter fluid because we have a smoker and always smoke our turkey. My final total at Ingles tonight was $99.44, and my total savings was $46.42 today. This comes to around $4.75 per meal for my family! Which means the cost of each meal is approx. $1.19 per each of my 4 family members!!! Im completely impressed!!
Im so thankful my friends pointed me in the right directions to get coupons, and to help me save the most!!