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Cheap Grocery Shopping

Be a Frugal Grocery Shopper and Fix Meals on a Budget

Looking for cheap grocery shopping options? To be a frugal grocery shopper, sometimes it pays to think outside the box. Forget typical discount grocery stores. Cook fantastic meals on a budget while discovering true grocery shopping on a budget.

A typical grocery shopping experience for most American families is to jump in the car, drive to a supermarket, possibly use a few coupons, and leave wondering how you spent so much. This leads to conversations with friends, family, and husbands about the rising cost of groceries and how you cannot afford the same things you bought a year ago. And then more wondering about how you will afford the cost of groceries next year.

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Perhaps you have been looking for discount grocery stores in your area for grocery shopping on a budget.

Chances are, you are looking in the wrong places.

Cheap grocery shopping sources are nearly everywhere, and can be a simple as stopping by a local church.

Yes, I said church.

No, I'm not asking you to accept charity!

Most American families are feeling the burn at the grocery store lately, no matter their income levels. In fact, middle class families are the ones who are most interested in meals on a budget.

In that spirit, there are two great, nationwide organizations that have pooled resources in order to provide frugal grocery shoppers with excellent, cheap grocery shopping options.

Angel Food Ministries

Angel Food Ministries is a faith-based organization that is run out of churches nationwide. You do not need to be a member of any particular church (or a regular participant- or even a member of that particular religion) in order to participate. Angel Food Ministries is committed to helping the regular American family with cheap grocery shopping.

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Each month, they offer a box of restaurant quality fresh foods, meats, and shelf stables worth $50-75 for $30.

In addition, they offer add-on items like steaks, chicken, fresh fruits, and other items at heavily discounted rates.

It works like this: first, you find the local Angel Food Ministries church in your area.

You then request a menu, pick out what you want, and pay at least two weeks prior to the delivery date.

On delivery day, you show up at the church at the predetermined time with your own box or cooler.

They'll call your name, you'll load up, place next month's order, and away you go!

If you want to be a frugal grocery shopper this is the way to do it!

Meals on a budget are possible with the contents of their box, with items such as roasts, chicken strips, ground beef, sausage, eggs, apples, canned fruit, rice, muffin mix, dessert, potatoes, etc. Though Angel Food Ministries accepts food stamp cards, it is NOT an income-qualify program, meaning you do not have to make a certain amount of income or less every month in order to be able to get these boxes. This is for regular, every day people.

I have participated in Angel Food Ministries for about three years now, in a few different towns in a few different states. The food is good, the price is good, and I highly recommend this program.

Click Here for Angel Food Ministries Menu and Host Sites

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Another place to do some cheap grocery shopping as a frugal grocery shopper is through your local SHARE organization.

Though I've heard a lot of great things about the SHARE program, I have yet to personally participate.

Similar to Angel Food Ministries, SHARE provides grocery shopping on a budget, and a savings of approximately 50% on items that rarely have coupons. Things like staples, fresh foods, and meats.

There are no income qualifications for SHARE.

Unlike Angel Food Ministries, SHARE asks that you donate your time to community service efforts in order to receive your food for meals on a budget. This is a good thing, and something that I think every family should be doing.

The only difficult part about SHARE is that there is not one main organization, but multiple similar ones throughout the country. Each state, and in some cases each county in a state, has its own organization and its own site. In order to find your location, you will need to do a Google Search for the terms "share food YOUR STATE".

This is definitely a program that a frugal grocery shopper should look into!

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