I spend a huge sum of money on groceries, and am always looking for ways to help the budget.  Have any of you ever heard of The Grocery Game?  It is a website where you can get a weekly list of the best specials at your local grocery store as well as a list of the corresponding manufacturers coupons from the Sunday paper or store flyers.  This is the info. from the website:

What is The Grocery Game?
The Grocery Game is a fun, easy way to save hundreds of dollars on groceries each month. TERI'S LIST reveals the "rock bottom" prices on hundreds of products each week and matches them up with manufacturers' coupons for the best possible savings at your local supermarket. The Grocery Game has exclusive databases that track manufacturers' coupons along with weekly sales and specials, both advertised and UN-advertised. With TERI'S LIST, the days of time consuming work required for effective coupon-ing are over. The Grocery Game does all the hard work and research, presented in a quick reference format on the internet each week, as TERI'S LIST. Members log in, spend a few minutes with a pair of scissors, and they're off to win The Grocery Game!

One of the things that I think is cool is that their database can tell if a sale price is really a "best price" or just a "phantom sale", meaning a better price on that item will be coming later.  There is a place on the site to type in your zipcode and it tells you what grocery stores in your area they have lists available for.  Here in Wake Forest, they have lists for Harris Teeter and Food Lion. Plus there is a free list for Walgreens on the website.  So today I signed up for the $1 Four week Trail.  I took my Walgreens List, my coupon file, and picked up some things tonight at the new Walgreens down the road.  My bill was $52.  My savings were $34.  Not too bad.  Tomorrow I'm going to Harris Teeter.

Check it out at www.thegrocerygame.com

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