Tip #4

Groceries: where to shop

With our recent economy meltdown that has been a surge in the price of groceries. The next few blog entries will be about how to combat high food prices and still get a gpood meal. Now the easiest way to reduce your grocery budget is to shop smart. Large 24 hour supermarkets hike their prices up for the convenience of getting a larger variety. So if you aren't in need of fresh obscurities but rather for say tomatoes and a bag of rice, you can hit up the cheaper grocer's. A few examples of cheaper grocery stores in Canada are food basic and Price Chopper whereas Sobey's and Zehr's tend to be pricey. Another place I often can score some cheap groceries is asian food marts. Now the food you get here is a bit different from your normal grocerystore and if the scent of fish makes you queezy I don't recommend it but if you are looking for cheap variety thats the place to get it. Of course the cheapest way to get groceries still usually remains the good old farmer's market. By this of course i don't mean the trendy all organic ones that have been popping up all over the place but rather the genuine farmer's market where farmer's bring their produce each week. Getting your food at a market supports the local economy, gets you fresher food than most grocer's and is just a whole lot more fun. So you may get a few weird looks when you come home with your groceries smelling like freeze-dried fish or a barn but its well worth the penny you save. Your wallet will thank you.