Thursday, January 20, 2011

Save Money On Groceries By Shopping Weekly Ads & Clipping Coupons

Make the monthly budget stretch farther by shopping the weekly grocery sale ads. Clip, print and use coupons that match the ads to maximize weekly savings.

For most of the nation, weekly grocery ads are released every Wednesday and sales run through the following Tuesdays. These circulars can be found in the grocery store, the local paper and online. Learning how to shop the weekly ads and combine the sales with coupons available will help to maximize savings each week

Learning to Shop The Weekly Store Ads
Almost every store in the nation runs a new sale every seven days. This helps to keep customers coming back for more merchandise. Department stores like Target and Kmart and health & beauty drug stores like CVS and Walgreens run weekly sales Sunday through Saturday. Grocery stores usually run ads Wednesday through Tuesday. To help ensure maximum weekly savings on the things needed, check each of these ads weekly. Almost every nation store chain offers their weekly ad online now. To easily view almost every store ad offered online, check out SundaySaver.com.

Match Store Sales To Coupons Available
The three main coupon manufacturers in the USA are Smart Source, Red Plum and Pillsbury. Their coupon inserts can be found almost every week in the Sunday paper. Each one of these companies also has an online website and ways to print coupons online using the consumers personal computer and printer. There are several websites that are devoted to helping consumers find the best deals and coupons available on the web. A few of these include: Coupon Network.com, Hot Coupon World and A Full Cup.
Spend a little time each week gathering coupons. The best way to start is by buying a Sunday paper. Wal-Mart sales two copies of the same paper, like The Dallas Morning News in a Sunday paper bundle for almost half the price of buying them separately. Consider starting there with the purchase of a paper bundle. Store chains like CVS, Walgreens and Target tend to run sales that match that week's coupon inserts. Start shopping those ads first and match the coupons to the ads. Then when the grocery store ads come out on Wednesday, find the hot sale deals and match to coupons available. This is a good time to check out coupon websites like A Full Cup. These websites save consumers time and money by matching store ads to coupon inserts and coupons online. Simple go to the websites, click on the certain grocery store like Krogers, Food Line, Albertsons or Meijer and the homework has already been done. Print and the match coupons that are available for the upcoming sale.

Plan the Weekly Food Menu Around The Best Deals
Food industries and food manufacturers routinely rotate product sales on a yearly basis depending on what is in high demand during certain times of the year. For example, after New Year's, January is the month to buy soup, chili, diet foods, and frozen meals like Lean Cuisine and Healthy Choice. This is also a great time to stock up on toilet paper. Look for the sales each week and find those coupons. It's a great time to by Campbell's soups, Angel Soft and Charmin toilet paper using those coupons as well as products like Wolf Brand Chili and Hot Pockets.
Make a grocery list based on the hot sales, sort and organize coupons and go shopping. Then plan weekly meals around those great buys. Many moms are discovering the joys of coupon shopping and grocery stockpiling for food at places like CVS, Walgreens and Krogers. They come home each week with a weeks worth or more of soup, chili, pasta, cereal, tuna, peanut butter and crackers for little to no money at all.

The Grocery Game
Some consumers will say that weekly grocery shopping is a chore. However the savvy shopper and frugal moms out there who consider grocery shopping to be like a fierce game of Monopoly are learning the joys of saving money and enjoying the good life and good food while keeping the family food budgetin tact.

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