Grocery Help

A few of you are trying out The Grocery Game and have asked me for input. I personally have not tried The Grocery Game, mainly because with a bit more effort, you can find almost anything online without having to pay for it.

It can be a little overwhelming at first, but hang in there and you'll get the hang of it. Or, just try out The Grocery Game. I'm sure you'll more than break even if you do.

For national ads (CVS, Walgreens, Target, Walmart), I like to follow coupon blogs. Some of my favorites are Money Saving Mom and Mommy Snacks.

For Randalls ads, I like Coupon Mom. You want to check out "Grocery Deals By State."

HEB is not very coupon friendly. A lot of their sale items are on sale with the yellow coupons found in the store. These coupons are almost always manufacturer coupons. You can't use 2 manufacturer coupons on 1 item, so this means you can use any of your newspaper coupons (and the whole point is to combine sales with coupons to get really great deals). Also, HEB is very regionalized, so some people in Houston might have a certain deal, but we won't have it here. But HEB has good prices in general, so I do most of my shopping there and then just get the best deals at the other stores.

A good website with all deal information you could possibly want for any store out there is Hot Coupon World. It's a discussion forum, but there is a discussion for pretty much every store and online deals as well. HEB and Randalls are both on there under the grocery section.

So hopefully that will help teach you all to fish a little bit, especially right now while I'm in the newborn stage.