Five Storage Secrets to Make Food Last Longer

Do you feel like you’re always throwing away food? Letting food go bad before you have a chance to eat it drains your pocketbook and results in more time-consuming trips to the grocery store. Before you head to the supermarket again, check your fridge and your cupboards and make a note of ingredients you have for future meals. Picking up a few more items to complement those ingredients will help you use up everything you already have. It’s always important to make a grocery list and, if you can, plan out a few meals in advance, so you hit the market with a goal in mind rather than wander the aisles picking up whatever happens to catch your eye.

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Extreme Couponing: Saving Hundreds of Dollars per Year at the Supermarket

Have you seen TLC’s latest hit, "Extreme Couponing"? In it, extreme savers (OK, some of them a little crazy) go to the supermarket and walk out with hundreds of dollars worth of groceries for only a few dollars! Not only is it even more addicting than "Jon and Kate + 8" (back before it got weird), it definitely makes you think--and makes many of you write to us and ask us how it's done! While “extreme couponing” may take a lot of practice and more than a little free time, saving $100-$200 per year with coupons is simple, and it’s easy to get started

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Household Tip of the Week: Making Condiments Last

It's frustrating to have to throw out condiments like sour cream, mayo, yogurt, and mustard because you didn't use the entire container before it went bad. However, you can easily combat this by changing containers as you use up the item. Using a smaller container exposes the condiment to less air--and less bacteria. The trick, of course, is making sure you successfully transfer every bit of mayo possible from the jar to the tiny Tupperware. We usually do our container downsizing right before we're about to use the condiment on something--that way, we can scrape what we don't transfer for our sandwiches.

"You can't use ALL those coupons at once!"

Over at Freebies4mom, Heather has a great post about what to do if your coupons get rejected. If you've ever walked into a grocery store worried about having too MANY coupons, you have to check this out.

Five Easy Ways to Save on Groceries

One of the questions we get asked the most is, "How do I save more money on groceries?"  Visit our new website for 5 easy ways to save hundreds of dollars on groceries each year.