Welcome to Grocery Coupon Guide
When it comes to saving money on groceries, there's a lot more that you can do than merely cut out coupons from your Sunday paper. With an estimated $360 billion worth of coupons floating around, there are plenty out there to help you reduce your monthly shopping bill if you follow a few basic strategies. That is what this site is dedicated to doing.
There are a lot of sites and ebooks that claim you can reduce your grocery bill by 90% or more. Although this can be possible, you would have to approach shopping as a full time job to achieve these results. Since that is not an option for most of us, we have put together a practical guide that can reduce your grocery bills by 30% - 50% with a minimum effort. It's a practical guide for the everyday person who wants to save, but not make couponing their life quest.
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Kmart Double Coupons
Kmart Double Coupons 2010
One thing that is important to remember is that getting the best deals on groceries means considering retail outlets beyond grocery stores. If you have a Kmart nearby and live in an area where grocery stores don’t double coupons, you are going to love this news. The week of April 4, 2010, [...]
2010 CVS Coupon Policy
2010 CVS Coupon Policy
CVS is a chain of drugstores that operates Nationwide which has some excellent deals on a weekly basis if you are willing to spend a little time learning the CVS coupon and CVS reward system. You can use the CVS Store Locator to see where the nearest CVS store is in your [...]
What Super Couponers Can Do
There were a number of super couponers that decided to help out Penny Experiment, and they began making shopping runs with the food that they purchased going to their local food banks. Since beginning in January, they have been able to purchase over $1000 worth of food for about $115 which includes all of the [...]
Get $45 Worth of Food for $3.50
By Jeffrey Strain
I’m terrible with coupons, but this week I managed to get get $45.48 worth of food for $3.50 — if you have a Safeway (or Safeway affiliated) grocery store near you, I will show you exactly how to do it.
This week (good until 01/26/10) Safeway is offering Betty Crocker Fruit [...]
Don’t Let Super Couponers Discourage You
By Jennifer Derrick
I know quite a few people who have tried to use coupons but ended up quitting because they got discouraged. They felt like they weren’t saving enough, or that somehow they weren’t doing it “right.” One woman put it simply when she explained, “I see these people on TV who get $600 worth [...]
Is Food Why Americans Don’t Save Money?
We talk a lot about how to save money on groceries on this blog through the use of coupons and other means. That is because when people look at their budgets, food is one area that is not a fixed costs and can be manipulated to save money. The key is to learn how to [...]
2010 Coupon Insert Schedule
The 2010 Coupon Insert Schedule
For those that collect grocery coupons, it’s essential to know when the different coupon inserts are scheduled to appear in your Sunday newspaper. Below is the 2010 coupon insert schedule for Red Plum, the 2010 coupon insert schedule for Smart Source, the 2010 coupon insert schedule for General Mills and the [...]
Coupon Bloggers Help Needed
Couponing is often highly undervalued and couponers are rarely given credit for a lot of good they do with their skill set. If you are a coupon blogger, you can help show how much good your skill can produce by participating in the Penny Experiment.
Jeffrey Strain found a penny on the ground and is [...]
Surprising Foods Experts Say You Shouldn’t Eat
When you ask experts what types of foods they would stay away from, you can come up with surprising answers. Here are seven food that experts say that you should avoid and the reasons why:
Canned Tomatoes: Because the tin cans they come in contain bisphenol-A which leaches into the tomatoes due to their acidity. [...]
Five Free Turkeys – and free groceries too!
Well…I hadn’t planned on cashing in on the free turkey for shopping deals too much this year. But we lived off our our stockpile of nearly free groceries for most of the summer. There was no time to shop, prices were high, coupons low. Then my sister arrived with the flu, and the amount of [...]