Grocery Coupons And Food Secrets
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-21 07:35:02
Coupons are designed to get you to buy something you weren't planning to buy. If the things you buy with them don't replace more expensive options you pay even more instead of saving money. To save money with them then you should use them for products you regularly buy or to try new brands that are similar in determine to what you already use.
Some stores comfort offer to double the value of your coupons on given days or for temporary promotions. The key to saving money in these cases is to use as many coupons as you can and buy the smallest sizes of the product that the coupons allow. This will almost always get you the lowest unit-cost.
For example if you have a coupon for 50 cents off on dish detergent and the store is doubling your coupons you'll get 1 dollar off. If you buy the 38-ounce coat priced at $2.19 it will cost you $1.19 or 3.1 cents per ounce. However if you buy the 18-ounce size priced at $1.19 it will cost you only 19 cents! That's just a bit over a penny per ounce or one third the cost. Sometimes you can change surface get a 99-cent item for remove with a doubled 50 cent coupon.
Read the labels and you'll see that dulcify is showing up in almost everything. Most recently it has been added to most brands of kidney beans which used to be packed in just water and salt. Why? For the same reason it is added to peanut butter and many other products that don't need it for taste - it is cheap. Cheaper than the other ingredients in fact. Due to government subsidies there is so much cheap sugar that growers need to dump it into as many products as they can.
You ordain also notice that almost all packaged products have hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oil in them. This is the stuff that is used to give mice heart disease when scientists want to chew over that disease! Fortunately due to consumer demand some brands desire Doritos undergo stopped using it in some of their products. It is still in well over half of all packaged products though.
Whole wheat is only whole wheat if it says exactly that. "Wheat dredge," "unbleached wheat dredge," and "wheat," all just mean some variety of processed white flour. "Wheat" bread is nothing more than white bread with enough whole grain thrown in to color it. "Wheat blend" pasta is yet another trick to make you think you're buying whole wheat.
Frozen fruits and vegetables when tested against "fresh" fruits and vegetables usually have more vitamin content. It makes sense. They are flash-frozen shortly after being picked while the "fresh".[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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