Planning - The Key to Saving on Food
An important thing to remember about lowering our food bills is to plan meals before going into the store. Dedicating time to grocery shopping and meal planning will cut our spending by up to 50 percent, if we stick to our list. Impulse-buying is the thrifty shopper's enemy, so we should try to avoid picking up items that are not on our list.

How Much Do We Really Spend?
It is hard to plan on saving money on something when we really do not know how much we are spending. One easy method to determine how much money is going towards groceries each month is to put all of the grocery receipts in one envelope for a month and add it up.