Meal Planning Step 2 - Coupon Match-ups

Planning your meals around sales helps you save money and also simplifies trying to figure out what to cook.  Buying only the proteins or produce on sale will help narrow down your choices in the vast world of recipes on the internet.  Do you know when your sales ad start each week for your grocery store?  Did you know you can find out ahead of time what will be on sale for the next week?  There is a lot I could tell you about shopping sales and learning to coupon, but nothing is simpler than finding a coupon match-up for your local grocery store  and just start using it to create a shopping list that will save you money and time!  A coupon match-up takes a sales ad (typically for this week and the next) and lists all the items on sale and what coupons are available to go with that sale item.  It will even tell you where to find the coupon!  It is available to print online, the link will be right there underlined by the item.  If it came from the Sunday paper, it will list what day it was in the paper.  Some times it will tell you a coupon is in a magazine or on a peelie on a product. How easy it that, right?  All the info you need is right there.  I recommend you Google your store and the words coupon Match-up and find a site you like and then just try it!  Over time you will learn what kind of couponer you are.  For me, I don't buy the Sunday paper; however, if I go to my in-laws who don't coupon, I take theirs.  I rely a lot on internet printable coupons.  You will need to know your stores couponing policy which can be found on the coupon match-up's web page or your stores web page.  Can't find it still?  Simply ask in the store.