Grocery Budget Killer #2: Snacks
How can snacks help you save money on groceries? They can help you save money on groceries by reducing them in your diet. For example, a bag of Oreos cookies are one of my favorite guilty pleasures is $4.29 at a local grocery store. However, at a wholesale club, you can buy more than double the amount of oreos for $9.29. See my post Are Wholesale Clubs Worth the Price of Membership for more information on wholesale clubs.
Look at the serving size label of your favorite foods. I am going to use Oreos as an example because as I mentioned before these are my favorite guilty pleasures. A serving size for Oreos is 3 cookies. It is the equivalent to 180 calories. This only 3 little cookies with no nutritional value, if I eat 6 cookies I will have eaten a whole meals worth of calories without any nutritional value.
I am not suggesting you cut out unhealthy snacks entirely, but you may want to eat them in moderation to improve your diet because they are costly and bad for your health.
There are 3 ways you can reduce unhealthy eating habits:
1. Reduce the amount and frequency of the snack
2. Find healthier equivalents for the snack
3. Eliminate the snack entirely from your diet
These tips will help you save money on groceries and move towards a healthier diet. Also, I read an interesting article How to Kill your Additions to Junk Food and Soda Pop which has a lot of tips on how curb bad eating habits.
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