Would you be surprised to learn that grocery discount coupons can save you well over half your food bill on every shopping trip?

Are you listening? How would you like to spend less than half of what you spent on last weeks grocery expenses this week, with just a very few modifications to your grocery shopping strategies?

1. Get coupons for every item in your shopping cart. Do not pay full price for anything, ever!

2. Look for high face-value coupons and discounts. Looking for the best grocery coupons requires only a few things. Scan the online printable grocery coupon sites and look for high face-value coupons. Scan the electronic coupon sites too, choose which offers you want and add them to your club card. Study the sales fliers for already discounted items. Know that the supermarket chains have gotten increasingly more competitive as the economy has gotten worse, so the deals are better. Look for discounted items in the store ad every week.

3. Match your coupons with weekly specials to get the highest savings. You may be happily unaware that this one skill will save you an additional 30% or more off the top.

4. The most important tip is to purchase extra when prices are very low. Why pay full price for a box of cereal when it can be had for a quarter on a good sale? I currently have 30 boxes of cereal in my pantry as I write this from a good sale last week, total savings $110 without much effort. Never pass up a really good deal without stockpiling.

Do grocery discount coupons save money, a lot of money? They can, if you use them properly. By properly I mean, get lots of multiples for the same item and use them when you can get a freebie. It happens more than you might think. You can usually find several free or nearly free items a week.

Where should you look for grocery discount coupons? There are lots of really good resources out there, although I like printable online grocery coupons because of their high face-values. The electronic grocery coupons that you can add to your club cards are always a good option too because they are both free and easy to use. Coupon clipping services are also an easy and inexpensive way to get a lot of multiple coupons with high face-values on the specific items you would like to stockpile.

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