Whenever people ask me how I manage to keep my grocery bill so low (typically around $30 per person for a week’s worth of groceries), I usually mention two things right off the bat that have saved me thousands of wasted dollars over the years:
I don’t shop without making a menu plan and a list, and I don’t buy bottled drinks at all, including water.
For beverages, we drink almost exclusively water from the tap in my house.
In fact, I can think of few worse rip-offs in the grocery store than the commercial water products.
The fact of the matter is that the bottled water industry has carried out one of the most brilliant marketing campaigns in modern consumer history -- a campaign that has very effectively led U.S families to needlessly spend their hard-earned dollars on an unnecessary and exorbitantly overpriced product.
I don’t shop without making a menu plan and a list, and I don’t buy bottled drinks at all, including water.
For beverages, we drink almost exclusively water from the tap in my house.
In fact, I can think of few worse rip-offs in the grocery store than the commercial water products.
The fact of the matter is that the bottled water industry has carried out one of the most brilliant marketing campaigns in modern consumer history -- a campaign that has very effectively led U.S families to needlessly spend their hard-earned dollars on an unnecessary and exorbitantly overpriced product.
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