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Buying organic products costs a little more than conventionally grown and processed foods. However the benefits outweighs the costs.
Many people assume you can’t save money when buying organic foods, but it can be done.
1. Shop the sales – Even organic & health food stores have sales, whether weekly or monthly. Visit the website for your local store and sign up for the newsletter, see the sale ads, etc.
2. Make Shopping List before you go to the store. Impulse buys are a big budget buster.
3. Use Coupons – Yes Coupons. There are coupons available for organic and natural products. Some stores even have their own store coupons that you can combine with a regular coupon. Check out the Organic / Natural Internet Printables forum at WeUseCoupons.com for many printable coupons on organic and natural products.
4. Buy the store brand - Some organic and natural foods stores have their own brand. Buying the store brand compared to a name brand item can garner some great savings.
5. Buy in bulk – Many organic and natural foods stores offers a bulk discount when you buy by the case or large unopened packages such as wheat berries, rolled oats (regular oatmeal), and more. Ask your store for details and you can even place an order through them for the bulk items. Also check out their bulk items wherein you can buy nuts, dried fruit, whole grains, and more from the self-serve bins by the per pound price.
6. Eat what you buy. How many times have you had to throw out vegetables or fruits because you didn’t use them in time? Make a menu plan either for a week, two weeks, or a month and eat what you buy. Eat your leftovers. Eat them for lunch the next day or use them to make another meal if you have leftover vegetables or meat. Make a double batch of a meal and freeze the half of it for a meal another day.
Visit the Organic & Natural Living forum at WeUseCoupons.com and find like-minded individuals as well as tips, store alerts for Earth Fare, and much more.
Be sure to visit the store forums for organic and natural foods stores such at Whole Foods and find sale matchups and more.
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Hi, I came over by way of Frugally sustainable because I'm a routine organic shopper. You've got some great tips about shopping the sales. When I go to the bulk bins, I always brings my jars from home. It makes it so much easier when I go home and unpack. the store weighs the container before I fill it up and adjusts the scale. I also "liked" my favorite store on Facebook because they routinely post their sale items and then I head on in when I'm in the neighborhood.
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We appear to write about similar topics. I'm always interested to find like minded people.