The price of groceries has skyrocketed!  As we strive to work on our financial health by spending less, groceries come to mind.  Are there ways to save when we buy food?  I share a few tips and tricks I've learned to reduce the cost at check out.

Transcript:

Hello, my name is Tiffany, and welcome to the podcast, Working on Amazing.

This is a podcast where we talk about the work that it takes to rebuild an amazing life.

And I use that word rebuild, because we're specifically designed for women who feel like they're starting over in the middle of their life.

And a few things could lead you to feel like you're starting over.

You could have gone through a divorce.

You could have lost your significant other.

Several things can lead you to this point where all your plans for the future have been totally scrapped, and it truly, really does feel like you're kind of starting over again.

If that's you, first, I am truly sorry.

I've been there, and I know that doesn't feel good, but welcome.

You are in the right place, and I am so glad that you are here today.

All right, let's get down to business.

If you'll remember, in the very first episode, I said that I focused on five areas when I wanted to rebuild my life.

I focused on my spiritual health, my mental health, my physical health, my financial health, and I focused on growth and goals.

So today's episode is going to fall under the financial health category.

And if you'll remember, when we talked a little bit just about the basics of finance, the overarching goal with money is you need to spend less than you make, right?

Because then that gives you money to save or pay down debt.

That gives you a gap, right?

That's how you don't live paycheck to paycheck.

Spend less than you make.

And there are two ways to do that.

You can either spend the less or make more or do a combination of both.

So today we're going to focus on spend the less a little bit, okay?

And we're going to talk about your groceries because everybody buys groceries.

The cost of groceries has skyrocketed, it feels like, over the last couple of years.

I mean, truly, it is just insane.

It feels like when you go to the grocery store, how much things have gone up.

And while there are several bills that you pay on a monthly basis that are fixed, you can't negotiate your rent or your mortgage or your water bill or your power bill.

Things like that are just going to be set.

If you have a car payment, that's going to be set, right?

However, groceries, even though we all buy them, are a squishy category, and you can maybe reduce that and spend less on that.

And since it's this thing that affects all of us, I mean, I've seen so many posts about people talking about how expensive groceries are, I thought we would just take a little time and talk about how to reduce your grocery bill.

It won't eliminate your grocery bill, but some of these tips may work for you and help you bring it down a little bit.

Any relief would be helpful at this point, it feels like.

Okay?

So tip number one, does it involve money?

But you will see a positive reflection in your grocery bill, I believe.

And the biggest tip I can give you, my best and biggest tip that I fully recommend, is you need to start meal planning.

Meal planning works for so many reasons.

First of all, if you plan out what you're going to eat, then when you're coming home from work and you're hungry and you're really tempted to go through the drive-thru, you already know, you already have the ingredients, it's been planned out.

Maybe you've even done a little prep work the night before because you knew that was your meal for today