Aug 15 2008
Saving Money on Groceries: When Is It Better to Make Your Own?
Online, you will find moneysaving suggestions that outline making some of your own products or variations of them, but can you really save money? In all honesty, it depends on the product in question, as well as your own personal preferences.
One easy way that you can save money is if your family drinks chocolate milk. I do not recommended buying a premade gallon of chocolate milk. It is expensive and doesn’t always last long. Instead, buy a bottle of chocolate mix. This will save you money and your chocolate milk will last longer.
Orange juice is another tip. Instead of buying premade orange juice, you can buy the frozen ones and mix your own. In our home, however, this tends to be a problem. My partner is picky with his orange juice. So, we tend to alternate between the two.
Another tip that I have seen is shredding your own cheese. Some people recommend buying the brinks of cheese and then shredding your own. This is only a good idea if your shredded cheese prices are a lot higher. In my local grocery store, the prices run the same on the two, unless there is a sale.
I am trying to teach my fiance that buying everything in huge quantities at Costco does not always equal savings. PLUS being just the two of us–buy a giant bagged salad may cost less than 3 small bags of salad, but if I throw half of it out because it went bad then we aren’t saving anything at all!