Save Money on Groceries: Recommended Reading

Here is a list of my favorite books about saving money on groceries and frugal living:

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   66 Ways To Save Money Today. The Ultimate Money Saving Tip Book. Money Saving Tips from Groceries to Gas. Your A to Z Tips.
   
   


2. How To Save Money on Grocery Shopping
   


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   Shop Smart, Save More: Learn The Grocery Game and Save Hundreds of Dollars a Month
   

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3 Ways to Sneak Fiber in your Diet

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As we discussed in the previous post 3 Benefits of putting Fiber in your Diet, our diet is heart healthy and helps up maintain our weight by keeping us full.

About a year ago, I started looking into ways I can maintain a healthy weight and train myself to eat healthy even on the go. This being said I discovered ways to incorporate fiber into my diet in healthy and convenient ways.







Here are the 3 Ways I Sneak Fiber into my diet:

1. Legumes - All beans are an excellent source of fiber. However, most beans take a long time to cook except legumes. Legumes generally cook in 20 minutes and still offer the same high fiber content which is expected of beans. My favorite legumes are the lentil beans. I put them in dishes which are not traditionally fiber filled such as spaghetti, baked ziti, lasagna, etc. You won't even notice they are there because they take on the flavor of the sauce and meat.



2. Apples - I like apples because generally they are inexpensive and easy to carry on the go so there is not excuse for not having a dose of fiber on the go.



3. Nuts - Nuts can have the wrong types of fats so you have to be careful with them. You can incur unwanted weight gain. Generally speaking the healthy nuts which are good for you are walnuts and almonds. A handful for a snack is filling and nutritious.

These healthy high fiber foods are generally inexpensive especially if you shop at a wholesale club and always remember to watch your portions.

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Where can I print free grocery coupons?

Since I don't always buy the newspaper, I found a link I want to share with you. You can print free grocery coupons anytime from this link

3 Benefits to Putting Fiber in Your Diet

Add Beans to Your Grocery List
We are always being told by doctors and nutritionist to add fiber to our diet to ward off some serious ailments such as 4 Warning Signs Your Diet May Lack Fiber. However, it can be tough to add fiber to our busy lifestyles.








Here are 3 reasons why you should consider adding beans to your diet:

1. Cheap - Beans are very cheap and we can all use any valuable savings tip we can get in this economy



2. Filling – Beans fill you up without weighing you down like foods high in fat



3. Healthy – Helps keep your weight down

My favorites beans are legumes because they take on the flavor of the ingredients of the dish and are very cheap. I use 3 Tips to Painlessly Put Fiber in my diet through the use of beans. I will share those tips with you in my next post.

10 great Grocery Shopping Tips

Grocery shopping can be a daunting and costly task. Thanks to the great article on the 10 Steps to Smarter Food Shopping, it doesn't have to be that way any longer.
The tips are very insightful and are some of which I already practice so I know they work. For example, I make a list before I go grocery shopping and only come of the list if there is something very important that I totally neglected to put it on the list such as milk, ketchup or any other staple. Otherwise, I am pretty stringent about going by the list. It something about those bright lights in the store which make people go crazy and want to buy everything in sight.

Also, limit the trips made to the grocery store. Making too many trips to the grocery store wastes alot of time, money and gas. All of which cost money.

Check out these tips 10 Steps to Smarter Food Shopping.

10 Great Grocery Shopping Tips

Grocery shopping can be a daunting and costly task. Thanks to the great article on the 10 Steps to Smarter Food Shopping, it doesn't have to be that way any longer.
The tips are very insightful and are some of which I already practice so I know they work. For example, I make a list before I go grocery shopping and only come of the list if there is something very important that I totally neglected to put it on the list such as milk, ketchup or any other staple. Otherwise, I am pretty stringent about going by the list. It something about those bright lights in the store which make people go crazy and want to buy everything in sight.

Also, limit the trips made to the grocery store. Making too many trips to the grocery store wastes alot of time, money and gas. All of which cost money.

Check out these tips 10 Steps to Smarter Food Shopping.

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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