As I've mentioned, I haven't quite gotten the hang of extreme couponing, and I think the reason is that I don't buy anything just because I have a coupon for it. Each week when I check the Walgreens circular to see if there are any deals within that appeal to me, I have never before seen one of its RegisterRewards items that my family could use. Last week, I did, though. I bought two boxes of Nutrigrain cereal bars for an at-work food drive, and the purchase netted me a $2 RR coupon. I'm anxious to use it. It's so nice have one!
This week is another grocery shopping week, and I'm dreading it. I had at one point managed to get my grocery spending under $175 every two weeks, the last few trips have not gone that well. They've all totaled more than $200, not including any supplementary trips I needed to make later. I'm not really sure what I can do to cut it more at this point beyond rethink what we've been eating. Over the past few months, the price of ground beef has gone up quite a bit, and much of what we eat has ground beef in it. I had been buying the leanest beef available, but on my last grocery trip, I bought 90/10 meat. Perhaps we'll need to eat more chicken.
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