There's no doubt food is one of the biggest items in your budget.  But what if you could save 70 to 80 percent on your grocery bill? 

Meet Jolinda Eibert - a mom who typically spends about $250.00 per month to feed her large family.  Eibert called the store ahead of her shopping trip to request a few items.  Shampoo, normally six dollars, is on sale.  Two bottles for $7.  Eibert says, "but they're on sale for $3.50, my $3 coupon, I get a $6 bottle of shampoo for fifty cents."  She had a manufacturers coupon, you simply add that to the store discount and voila... "you've got 8 giant things of shampoo for fifty cents each... exactly."  Eight at regular price... that would be nearly fifty dollars. 

"Four dollars or fifty, that's when I save money in the long run, I won't buy shampoo for several months."  And she does this throughout the store... adding the manufacturers coupon to the store's sale, and she maximizes that by buying large amounts of the items she gets for dirt cheap... toothpaste... "I'll get for fifty cents regular $4.19...regular $4.19". 

Deli meat, regular $4.99 a package... "but they're on sale for $1.49 now I use a coupon, and when I buy two, get free bread, normally 4 dollars a loaf".  Just free, on top of the other savings, a free loaf of bread, saves another four bucks. 

You can find coupons like this all the time.  The manager told me though, that the average shopper just doesn't pay attention to these freebies.  But they're free extras.  Things just thrown in, bread, milk, eggs,  "We ended up with 60 dozen for free...one more time, 60 dozen eggs for free".  After a surprisingly quick shopping trip she made it to the checkout stand.  They keep ringing up, item after item after item... the grand total $969.34.  A staggering amount... "Now watch it come down"... the price literally melts away in front of your eyes.  What did she end up spending to get all this food... $185.34.  "a little higher than I wanted to spend, what would you like, under 100, okay I get 85 percent savings "

She says a percentage like that is normal.  Total savings on today's trip, $768.  You're probably thinking - I can do the first few things Jolinda recommends.  I can pay attention to what my family eats.  I can write down deals when I see them in local ads.  I will only buy items when they're on sale... but how do I get those manufacturer's coupons?  Because that's where the biggest savings are. 

Here's how... target the products you want coupons for... the products already on sale in your local store, and use online grocery coupon services... where you can simply search for and order the coupons you want for the products that are already discounted at the store.  The manufacturer will mail you those coupons - as many as you want.  Combine those with the store ads and that's it.  Pretty soon you'll be buying $4 peanut butter, for next to nothing.\

Now we should point out most coupons on those and other sites are free, but on a few of the coupons you could get charged a fee of maybe one cent a coupon.  If you do the math, saving 70 cents on something is worth one or two cents to ship the coupon to you. 

Here are the links to the coupon sites:  http://www.ksfy.com/news/links