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Budget Grocery Tips

Budget Grocery Tips
Aired on: June 15, 2007March 29, 2007

Are you constantly ringing up budget-busting totals at the grocery store only to come home and feel like you didn't even get enough food? Mom of seven, Hannah Keeley, stretches her weekly budget to the max -- and with nine total mouths to feed! She's sharing her thrifty shopping tips. Watch the video above for Hannah's guide through the supermarket.

Like most moms, Hannah was buying the variety pack of snack-size yogurt for her kids -- spending extra money for the small packaging and wasting the yogurt flavors that no one would eat. "I finally realized there was an easy and natural way to deal with this," she says. "I buy a big tub of plain natural yogurt and slice up different fruits. Then I add maple syrup or honey for sweetness, and send the kids to school with it in a small reusable container."

The same idea applies to juice that is packaged for babies and toddlers: "It's really just the same thing we drink but diluted. So I buy a big bottle of juice and just add water to it. That also makes it last longer!"

She has even found a way to save a buck on toilet paper. "We run through dozens of rolls and what I do is buy the single-ply cheap toilet paper with the most amount of sheets they have (usually around 1000 sheets per roll). My kids only ball it up anyway," she says explaining that single-ply is less expensive than two-ply and the big rolls last longer.



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