Grocery Coupons And Food Secrets
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-09-15 21:28:00
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 spend 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 price to what you already use.
Some stores still offer to manifold 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 cater detergent and the store is doubling your coupons you'll get 1 dollar off. If you buy the 38-ounce size priced at $2.19 it will cost you $1.19 or 3.1 cents per ounce. However if you buy the 18-ounce coat priced at $1.19 it ordain be you only 19 cents! That's just a bit over a penny per ounce or one third the cost. Sometimes you can even get a 99-cent item for remove with a doubled 50 cent coupon.
Read the labels and you'll see that sugar 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 flavor. 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 will 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 be to study that disease! Fortunately due to consumer demand some brands like Doritos have 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 flour," "unbleached wheat flour," and "wheat," all just convey some variety of processed white dredge. "Wheat" bread is nothing more than white cover with enough whole grain thrown in to color it. "Wheat blend" pasta is yet another trick to make you evaluate 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" foods are in trucks for days exposed to alter and air. Then they sit at the grocery store for days then in your refrigerator for days. Buying frozen fruits and veggies then can be healthier and they are change surface cheaper at times like when the particular bear or vegetable isn't in toughen.
Grocery coupons aren't the only way to save money buying food. hold on brands are often substantially cheaper and guess what? Often they are really the name brands in disguise. construe the label and you may see something desire. "Packed for ABC Grocery Stores by Kraft Foods. Inc." In any case you can try the store brands and if you can't tell the difference why pay more?
Finally what size bananas eggplant and other fruits or vegetables should you buy? If they are sold by the conjoin buy the biggest to get the most for your money. If they are sold by the pound buy the smallest. You'll still eat one banana at a time for a eat right? The small ones might be half the price of the large saving you money with every snack. When it comes to saving money shopping there is more to it than grocery coupons.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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