I must admit that I don't have a bunch of great tips for grocery shopping, however I do have one useful tool. At least useful for me, and you if you so choose to use it.
Mike and I have recently changed our eating lifestyle to Clean Eating, basically if it does not have a mother or grow from the ground ... don't eat it. For me this is challenging since I love white pasta and bread and would have a sugar IV if it wouldn't kill me. With clean eating it requires a lot of fresh foods - so I have upped my grocery game to once a week! {for a family with no kids ... that a lot}.
I have got it down to a science though. Cue my handy grocery shopping list:
I use this template for each trip, I can plan the meals I will cook that week. In hind sight this probably wasn't the best week to document since Mike is going out of town on Thursday so I won't be cooking big dinners while he is gone. Anyways I write down my meals and then survey my kitchen to see what ingredients I already have and which ones I need.
Categorizing my shopping items by Meat, Produce, Dairy, and Misc.
While my prep takes about a half an hour to forty five minutes it makes my trip in the store a breeze. With a handy highlighter in hand {makes it much cleaner than just crossing it out - I know, OCD} I can whizz through the departments and be well on my way.
If you'd like to adapt this simple approach to your grocery shopping feel free to download my template below:
Happy Shopping!
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