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Frugal Fridays: Tips At MyGroceryDeals.com – Leftover Lowdown

There are so many great tips in MyGroceryDeals.com's eBook that it is difficult to choose a final segment. The section on coupons is slammin' but then I'm way too disorganized for coupons (I have a lot of paper floating around as is). Serious grocery savers keep a pricebook (great run through of that process also).

Since it is just the hubby and me at our house, our fave way to save on groceries is to stretch leftovers. Not only does it save money but it saves time.

Both of us being at a certain level and working in offices attend a lot of meetings. Many of these meetings happen over lunch (or even, sigh, dinner). To avoid the disaster of ordering too little for lunch (hungry execs are bad news), assistants often order too much. At the end of the day, this excess, if not eaten, gets tossed in the garbage (most cleaning staff can get fired for eating the extras, unfortunately).

So what we do is take it home. Now, you're saying "Ugghh, the same thing for lunch AND dinner?" Well, no, because we switch off. The hubby gets my lunch leftovers and I get his. We also do this with restaurant meals (they are SO massive) and any party leftovers (freezing the excess in single serve containers for homemade microwave meals). My in-laws don't eat leftovers so we get a good selection from there also.

A girlfriend was teasing me about my leftover cuisine, thinking I was nickel and diming UNTIL I told her that we saved thousands of dollars in food costs this way, enough for a one week cruise for two in the Caribbean. Those nickels and dimes add up (not to mention the time, coming home from work and not having to think about dinner).

For more great tips, check out MyGroceryDeals.com.

Posted by Kimber on February 15, 2008 6:00 AM |

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