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Groceri-ing

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Red and White
Mississauga, Ontario

"I like buying snacks from a vending machine because food is better when it falls. Sometimes at the grocery, I'll drop a candy bar so that it will achieve its maximum flavor potential."

It was almost half an inch thick. I'm not being anal but when I sort them at the end of the month, I sort them by expense category. Then I sort them by date. Then I staple them and compare the totals with my excell file. Guess what comes out as the biggest contributor to our everyday spending (dont count rent and gasoline, I get a portion of that as business expense) - its the GROCERY bill.

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The proximity of Longo's (just across the street) and 3 more grocery stores a 3-minute drive away makes it tempting for us to get our food fresh everyday. In fact, I counted 21 days out of the 31 days of March, that's the number of times we bought something from our "Sari-sari store".

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Groceries account for almost 15% of our spending. That's just 2 of us :)

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Ok, so you enjoy going to the grocery as much as I can. You and I, let's try going to this one.

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It's the Weekend once again. Our newspapers will have a huge pile of coupons, rebates, brochures and sale items tucked neatly in the news pages. Apparently this thing works. Up to 30% are saved from our grocery bills doing this.

This, plus 9 more tips for effective grocering here.

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