Ten Easy Ways to Save Money on Food
- Stop going out to eat five times a week.
- Dine out only at inexpensive places – and only once per week
- Cut coupons before going to grocery store
- Used said coupons once you are there
- Eat before you go shopping, so you don’t buy every Twinkie and bag of Doritos in sight
- Use cash at the grocery store – bring a calculator!
- Shop only on the parameters of a store – everything on the outside – the produce, milk, cheese and meats – are actually the least expensive, and most healthy things in the store. It’s the processed, bagged and sorted food that adds up.
- Avoid convenience stores – if you can pump gas outside, the food inside is more expensive
- Learn to cook
- Eat what you cook; especially the left overs
Shari Storm worked at the debt counseling agency, Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Seattle for six years before coming to Verity Credit Union in 1998. Storm has her masters degree in business administration from Seattle University. She writes for Working Mother Magazine blog and MomLogic.
She is a mentor for Seattle University’s Albers School of Business graduate program and lectures at University of Washington’s Experimental College.
She is the author of Motherhood is the New MBA: Using Your Parenting Skills to be a Better Boss. She has three daughters.
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