Hi reader,
For a long time I considered grocery shopping a bit of a game. It was me against the store and every trip boiled down to seeing how much food I could get while spending as little money as possible.
But let me tell you this - there's nothing worse than playing a game with someone who cheats.
I learned the hard way that grocery stores play dirty. They're in it to win it, and they have big marketing budgets and an even bigger bag of tricks to make that happen.
They hold nothing back to make a profit, and we're left wearing the dunce cap in the corner (and paying the enormous bill too).
Not anymore.
I've spent a lot of time in grocery stores with two kids in a double stroller, the umbrella cover open with my coupon box on top, and whatever I was buying stuffed into the cargo netting underneath their seats.
I got plenty of funny looks walking through the store, but seeing the look on their faces as my total dropped at checkout was worth it.
I don't use coupons anymore and we no longer buy processed food, but our checkout totals are still jaw-droppingly low - all because of the time I spent learning how grocery stores make their money.
You see, I took THEIR strategy and reverse-engineered it to create MY strategy to save money.
It's the same strategy I teach inside Grocery Budget Bootcamp - the strategy that got us out of debt, helped us pay cash for a house (twice), and have kept our grocery budget so lean all these years.
Last week in the Fight Inflation Workshop we covered three simple strategies to make food affordable right now - in the midst of record inflation, food shortages, and supply chain issues. We also talked about what to do if you feel like you've done "all the things" and yet there's still not enough money to go around.
We're putting icing on the cake with today's session!
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