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Jaci Rae:
If you want to lower the price of your meals, it doesn't mean that you have to change the way you eat so much as you have to change the way you shop.

Jaci Rae, author of the book 5 Meals for $5, says the first rule of grocery shopping is never go to the store hungry. Next…

Call up your stores; find out when their sales are. Ask when meat is on sale and then double that with your coupon. Find out when your store has your double, triple coupon days if they have them - some do, some don't.

Jaci says a lot of people believe that coupons really don't work in the long run.

Nope - they really do work and that is the mistake a lot of people make. Put it this way - one day I took my fiancé out and I said, "I bet you that we can feed both of us for under $5, with a bunch of coupons. There's sales at Savemart right now - let's go in." And we walked out of there with a meal that fed both of us (plus some) and change left over from that $5.

Always take a list with you when you go grocery shopping and if you buy something that's not right…

You know, if you get it back home and there's moldy strawberries at the bottom, you can take back produce - don't take it back right away because then you're wasting gas. But call up the store and tell them. Ask to speak to the manager of that department. I've never had a store not tell me, "When you come back in seek me out and I'll give you free ones or I'll give you a refund if you bring your receipt."

You can link to Jaci's website from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.