10 things that will lower your food bill

Ten things you can do to lower your cost of food at home.    

1. Know the RBP of things you buy on a regular basis.  Set dollar limited on things.    Unless you really have to have something that is a higher price. don't buy it at the high price.   
2. Check the ads when they come on the mail .  Check all the stores for bargains,   Decide  which two chain stores have the best buys.   Some stores here have no ads, but prices can be found for some stores at favado.    ( am ap for your electronic devices) 
3. Avoid junk food and ready mades like the plague.    Empty calories can jack your food budget up fast and not give your family good nutrition.  Learn to cook scrarch, one thing at a time.  Find the easiest recipes as possible.  
4. Buy fresh produce in season and look for the best quality for your money.   
5. Don't experiment.   Buy things most of your family will eat.   Remember; no food will do you any good if you feed it to the garbage disposal.    That isn't to say you need to eat pizza and chicken nuggets everyday!   LOL.  
6. Take advantage of every coupon you find that is for things you buy on a regular basis.  Store basket coupons are best used when you stick to the limit.  In other words, if ts five dollars off of twenty five, you spend twenty five.  That way, you are getting 20 percent off everything you buy.   Add that to regular manufacturers coupons, and you can extreme coupon.   Extreme couponing is not about buying 60 bottles of,hot sauce you'll never use on your lifetime.  
7. When you find something at a RBP that you use a lot of on a regular basis, buy as many as you can (store limits ), as many as you can afford, or as many as you will use before it goes on sale again or you need to fill in your self imposed limit of stock - whichever comes first.    His isn't about filling a pantry as much as it is having enough product that you can make a meal out of in an emergency  for the least possible cost.  The operative word is a manageable amount so it gets used up before epiration dates.   
8. Some things are best bought in bulk.  We eat a lot of rice.  Rice doesn't go bad.  I can safely buy a 25 pound bag of rice and put it on glass jars.    Now, beans in bulk won't work for us.   I stock to five  pounds at a time.   
9. Meal plan.   Just meal plan.....it saves a ton of money amd stress.    
10. Buy your protein on a rotation basis.    Buy enough to feed your family for a months worth of those meals.  In other words, if you eat ground beef once a week, you will buy four meals worth of ground beef.   When you get it home or shortly afterwards, cook it if appropriate and portion control it for meals.   I usually either make meatballs or defat crumbles.   Ot makes cooking a snap and takes up less room in the freezer.    If it's pork roast, I cut cubes from the end that isn't flat, cut a roast, and cut some pork chops and freeze.    Chicken is either bought as breast with ribs and I de-bone it and make stock from the bones.   Then I bag the breast on quart bags, amd the quart bags in a gallon bag, or I cook a whole chicken and separate it onto the breast, dark meat and bones for soup.   

Hope this helps.