Disclosure: I received product samples. Opinions shared are mine.
In our house, grocery money is one of the biggest areas where money is wasted. I know we’re not alone! In 2016, try these 3 ways to stretch food money for your household without using coupons. Plus, enter this giveaway that will make it even easier.
Take your own bags to the store.
In this case, we’re not talking about the bags that tote your groceries home. Invest in a pack of Debbie Meyer GreenBags® for your produce. Put your fruits and veggies directly in these BPA-free wonders, which can be reused 8-10 times. Extending the life of your produce means that you can count on those onions to last longer. I’ve been frustrated by berries that molded the day after I brought them home; GreenBags can help to prevent such atrocities. Not having to re-buy ingredients because they’ve spoiled is a great way to stretch the food budget. It also helps to keep food out of the landfill!
Plan to use your leftovers.
When you’re finished with your meal, pack the leftover food away with your next meal in mind. Just sticking things back in the fridge can be a disaster, with an overflow of containers and baggies that were left to rot. Debbie Meyer GreenBoxes™ can help your food to stay fresh longer, so you can stash away a week’s worth of lunches. I found that one of the large GreenBoxes stored two servings of spaghetti. It made the perfect mid-week meal for us, and the pasta tasted just as delicious as it was when served fresh. They’re microwave- and dishwasher-safe, too. Thinking about our leftovers ahead of time makes our food budget stretch even more.
Look for savings at your store.
I’m not an advocate of driving to three or four stores to get deals. While it works for some people, I don’t have time to do that, so the savings aren’t worth it for me. However, I found out that my favorite grocery store sometimes offers a cool 5% discount when you redeem their shopping points (which I earn just by shopping there). Our sales tax in TN is a whopping 9.75%, so that 5% off is a huge savings for us. Your local grocery store may offer something similar. Just pay attention to the signs, ask the cashiers, and read your receipt. You’re sure to find at least one way to stretch your food budget!
As part of the Natural New Year giveaway hop, one lucky reader will receive a set of Debbie Meyer GreenBags® and DebbieMeyer GreenBoxes™. The contest is open to US readers ages 18+. Void where prohibited by law. Just visit the giveaway form below to enter. Good luck!
By keeping my food fresher, longer, courtesy of their unique composition.
Each bag can be reused 8-10 times. Less trash!
This would keep my food fresh for longer, and thus, eliminate some of my food that goes bad too quickly.
It would help by reducing how much wasted food we throw away because they stay fresh longer
It will help reduce waste.
I will be able to save money since my strawberries will last longer. It will be nice having fresh produce longer.
The bags will help me reduce how much food I throw away.
I’ll save money by eating out less, cooking big batches of meals and living on leftovers for days.
The bags will help me live more naturally by cutting down on the number of bags I use and throw out.
So much of my produce gets tossed out from going bad too fast!! This could really help us throw out less and use more of what we purchase!!
They will help me life a healthier lifestyle by making me WANT to buy fresh produce and use it!
I like that it keeps the veggies and things fresh.
They would definitely help me save money, because I wouldn’t have to buy so much plastic wrap.
I think they’d help me keep leftovers fresher longer so I have less waste!
They can help me save money by keeping my fruit and vegetables fresh longer plus I love the fact that the containers are microwave safe so the food doesn’t have to be transferred into another bowl or container just to heat it up.
I am trying to feed my family more fresh vegetables and fruit but they go bad so fast so the bags and containers will help me extend their life and I will have them on hand to cook with.
They would help to save money by keeping the vegetable or fruit fresh longer
they are Made with a natural mineral that creates a beneficial storage environment and helps extend the life and freshness of foods.
The bag set has 20 pieces in a variety of sizes so you can use it with many different foods.
I like that they are microwave and dishwasher safe.
It will help me save money because they help extend the life of the food by using the green bags.
I like that you can reuse the bags to help reduce the excess garbage.
I will help preserve my food longer and fresher.
By keeping my food fresher longer I won’t have to replace them as much, saving me lots of money
I would save money by not having to throw out so much produce that goes bad before I can use it.
The bags would help me live a natural lifestyle by preserving the fresh produce I get at the local farmers market.
I will waste less food, as the boxes keep food fresh longer.
By using the bags, I will be able to purchase (or grow!) produce with no added preservatives.
I love being able to reuse the bags which means less waste.
It will help me save money by extend the life and freshness of foods
They’ll keep my leftovers fresher longer, so I have less waste! These are great!
It will help by keeping food fresher, longer..
I have a couple of Debbie’s boxes and they are terrific I love the fact that I can make up salads ahead of time and they stay totally fresh for days
I would save money by being able to make my salad lunches a few days in advance. I have done this several times before but they always end up icky a few days into the week and I just have to throw it away.
These boxes look awesome.
I will be able to keep fresh fruit longer which will save money.
It would help keep or salad fixings fresher longer.
They will help me live a natural lifestyle by cutting out the need for plastic bags.
They would help me save money by only having to buy produce once a week instead of twice.
These will help me to live a natural health style by reducing the number of bags/containers I use & I will have less waste.
This would really help us save by being able to save and reheat leftovers from the previous nights dinner! I love that they are BPA safe!
The large set of boxes will ensure that more of my food stays fresh longer.
The bags can be reused, and cleaned with just a rinse of water.
Since this is BPA-free storage containers they would keep my food fresher, longer, courtesy of their unique composition and that would save money.
It will save me money by keeping my food fresher (so they say, anyway)
It will help me lead a more natural lifestyle by encouraging me to cook extra/generate leftovers – this means less energy used since I won’t be turning on the oven each day.
The boxes are top rack dishwasher safe, so I will be able to use them easily to store food longer.
With the bags, I will be able to store more produce longer.
I really like that they are nesting for storage and stackable for storing. I really like the different sizes too. It would be so helpful to be able to put left overs in ready portioned containers that conserve space in the fridge.
It will save me money by saving for leftovers
and keeping food fresh
The bags keep stuff fresh longer
The GreenBoxes extend the life of food so you have less food waste. You thus save money!
It is “green” that I can reuse each bag 8 to 10 times.
I love that the containers are stackable, nestable and have interlocking lids. Great space savers to save your food in.
I buy a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables. To keep them from spoiling, I go to the grocery store 2-3 times a week (30 miles roundtrip). Debbie Meyer greenboxes would help me save money by going to the grocery store less and I could have the fruits and vegetables on hand when I need them. Also, I could save on food by using my leftovers and not worrying about them getting moldy.
The green bags will help me by protecting my fruits and vegetables from spoiling and I will have much less waste. Also the bags are reusable so that I am also helping the environment when I wash and reuse the bags.
These would save me money by keeping my food fresher for longer so I wouldn’t have to throw it out and buy more.
These would help me live a more natural lifestyle because I would buy more fresh produce.
The Greenboxes set is very inexpensive, much more so than comparable other sets.
The Greenbags can be used for baked goods as well as produce, so I will live a more natural life by baking my own breads.
The boxes will help me easily store leftovers and keep them fresh.
The bags received great reviews on cutting down on costs due to throwing less food away
They will help me be healthier by prolonging the life of my produce
I live alone and hate throwing out old food.
Thanks for the contest.
Each bag can be reused 8-10 times. Which will save me money.
By extending the life of my produce, GreenBags may actually help me have more fresh veggies that I need for a healthy lifestyle is 2016.
I’d have more fresh food to eat with green bags.
I’d have more fresh food to eat with green boxes.
The greenboxes will help me save money by enabling me to store my produce longer.
The bags are a money-saver, in that each bag can be reused up to 10 times.
It will save me money because produce will last longer and not spoil too soon
It will help me live a natural lifestyle because I am likely to buy more healthy food
The bags would be good for staying fresher and not wasting food.
The boxes would be good for staying fresher and not wasting food.
It will save me money as I will be able to keep food fresher which means a lot less of wasted food and more shopping trips to replace it.
I think the Debbie Meyer green bags will help keep all of our Veggies Fresh… My Husband has to have fresh ingredients for Salads and side dishes of veggie’s, so this would be less waste and more fresh veggies that we could eat, saving money too, who doesn’t like to save money….. we live out in the woods and do not travel to the store as often because it is further away, so this would cut down trips to the market for us as well.
They’ll help me save money by keeping my food fresher longer so that I throw less away!
By keeping food fresher for longer.
I find myself throwing frequently throwing food out so this would help to preserve it longer and there would be less waste.
I buy a lot of salad and greens and really they will help me get more time to atually eat them before they go bad
I will save money in the next year due to their No Hassle Return Policy. They simply take it back with no questions asked, so this alone will save a lot.
The Green-Bags will help protect food at the same time the environment. They are so great!
we would have less food waste using the bags and the plastic containers, each week I throw away foods that get pushed to the back or ignored
hi, i love cooking w/ fresh vegetables, so anything that preserves their freshness, works for me.
Will save money because we eat it before it goes bad
Because it will give us a few extra days to eat our fruits before they go bad!!
I love these awesome greenbags because they help preserve the freshness and prolong the life of fruits, vegetables, baked goods and snacks