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.
Latest Articles
Is Anyone Buying This Free Deal?
I’ve noticed over the last week or two a new type of deal cropping up: the Free Thanksgiving Dinner Deal, otherwise known as the “Holiday Rewards“ deal. A number of supermarket chains have hit on the idea that a “Spend $XXX dollars and get a free turkey dinner” deal will be a sure [...]
Tablespoon.com links printable coupons to your favorite recipes
General Mills is beta testing a new site for finding, sharing, and saving recipes, and it’s loaded with coupons, too!
The new site
Tablespoon.com
is designed to provide a huge reference of searchable commercial kitchen-tested recipes (like the ones from Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, and their other brands), along with your own recipes, and share them with friends and [...]
Nature Made is paying $30,000 for part time bloggers!
I finally got past this cold enough to open my inbox. Along with my usual coupons, product advisories and announcements, and other newsletter stuff, there was an announcement from my Nature Made rewards program. Nature Made is offering $5000 a month, for six months, and providing a free laptop, for someone to blog about using [...]
How to Earn a Free Turkey or other Thanksgiving Rewards
It’s time to talk turkey! Many stores offer free Thanksgiving Turkey or other free dinner promotions during the six weeks prior to Thanksgiving. While the offers vary somewhat from store to store, there are three basic types of offers: spend $300 at one store to receive your turkey; buy participating items to earn a turkey; [...]
Some Hidden Benefits of Using Coupons
It happened again. I handed the cashier my club card and coupons while DH bagged our groceries – a full cart of beef, produce and general household items. The full price rang up to $200, but the final price I paid was $32. Seeing the savings I racked up, the young man behind me in [...]
General Mills is inviting you to join their Advisory Panel!
Whether you want to be the first to try new products, or influence future ones, advisory panels are a great way to become involved. There are quite a few available, but here’s one you might not be aware of:
General Mills and Small Planet Foods (Muir Glen and Cascadian Farm organics) have created the
Mills Advisory Panel [...]
New Ways to Save on Groceries – Online Mall Rewards
It’s been around for several years now: shop online through a certain website linked to retailers like drugstore.com or BarnesandNoble.com and earn $ back or credit for a future purchase. EBates, Myrewards, Mypoints, even credit cards and banking cards, such as Visa and Bank of America, offer “buy more, save more” rewards programs through their [...]
Price matching and the Price Guarantee
Wouldn’t it be great if you could shop at a single store and receive the best price available that week? One-stop shopping and maximum savings in one store!
Well sometimes you can. Many stores offer “price matching”, meaning if you find the item advertised elsewhere for less, the store will “match” the competitions lower [...]
Free Bertolli Coupons Contest
I picked up a few Free Bertolli Frozen Meal coupons (while attending the BlogHer Food conference in San Francisco on Saturday) that I’m going to give away as a prize. The contest is for two (2) coupons. Each coupon is “Good for and ONE (1) variety of Bertolli Frozen Meals” with a value of up [...]
Shop, Save and Support Breast Cancer Awareness
Those pink colored packages are making their way back onto the store shelves as Breast Cancer Awareness month (October) approaches. This is a great opportunity to save money on grocery items and support a great cause – a true Win – Win situation!
As one example, Proctor & Gamble is making a donation to the [...]