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My grocery bill went from $120 a week to $75 after I started planning around sales
I used to just buy the same stuff every week without looking at the store flyer. Then, for a month, I made my meal plan based only on what was on sale at my local Kroger. The first week I saved $15, and by the fourth week I was down to spending about $75 total. It forced me to try cheaper cuts of meat and different veggies I'd normally skip. Has anyone else had luck with this method, or do you have a different trick for cutting the food budget?
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alice_hart1mo ago
Kroger's weekly flyer actually saved you forty-five bucks a week?
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bennett.vera1mo ago
That's wild, alice_hart. Feels like every store's playbook now. They hike up the regular price all week, then the flyer makes the "sale" price look like a steal. My local spot does it with laundry soap and cereal every single time. You end up buying more junk just because it's in the flyer, thinking you beat the system.
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val94927d ago
Right, that's exactly what bennett.vera was getting at. The math never adds up unless you're already buying exactly what's on sale and nothing else. Like, you walk in for milk and eggs, see the flyer screaming about coffee pods, and suddenly you're down twenty bucks on stuff you never planned to buy. Kroger knows what they're doing with those layouts too, putting the high dollar items front and center. It's a trap lmao. So yeah, the forty-five bucks saved is probably real if you're literally only buying the loss leaders and nothing else, but who does that
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