Tonight was my first try at "The Grocery Game" and I'm thrilled with the results! (and so is my wallet) For those of you who haven't heard of it, "The Grocery Game" is a website that a woman created to help other people save money on groceries. She created this huge database that keeps track of all the coupons and sales the happen at the major grocery stores. Each week all you have to do is clip the coupons out of the L.A. Times or other major paper, and hold on to your coupon mailings. On the weekends, "the list" is published which tells you what is on sale for that week. At Ralphs where I shop, the sales happen on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The list is color coded. Blue means it's time to stock up on an item because it's at the lowest price. Green means that you can get the item for free. And Black means that the item is on sale, but you should only buy it if you need it or want a treat. That information, combined with the coupons that she tells you to use, add up to huge savings. And the philosophy is that you would only buy items when they are on sale, stock pile those items, and then go to your own pantry to go shopping once you need the item. Tonight was my first time trying out this system and I was so happy to see how much I saved! The bill would have been 106 dollars, and I paid 53!!!!!! I'm a grocery game convert now and will definitely be using it to save money from now on. :-)
