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Mary Hunt:
I say, look at food. This is the food you’re buying at the grocery store, this is lunches out, this is all the ways that we spend money on food.

Mary Hunt, author of the book, Live Your Life For Half The Price says eating out is the mother of all budget busters and just cutting back a bit on meals out will save you a lot of money over the long run. As for grocery shopping, saving is also easy.

Because I have found a couple of fabulous websites that help by doing all of the hard work for me. The first one is called couponmom.com and then the other site that I really rely on is called thegrocerygame.com. What they do is they track what’s on sale at every supermarket in the U.S. and they post it on their websites and you can go there and find it.They tell you what coupons you’re going to need, print out a list and off you go to the store.

If you make saving money on food a priority, Mary says, you’ll be amazed at how much money you’ll save every year. And you’ll also be amazed at how good you get at finding out where the food bargains are.

You know where it’s cheapest to milk in my area? The Shell station mini-mart where they sell gasoline is the cheapest place in my area to buy milk. At a $1.99 a gallon, so I don’t buy it at the grocery store. I have found that you pay nearly half price for it at the mini-mart. Anybody can come up with these types of strategies.

There are links to the sites Mary talked about on our website: somethingyoushouldknow.net. I’m Mike Carruthers and that’s Something You Should Know.