Do go thru the supermarket with your eyes WIDE open, not for gorgeous guys or girls, but for items that have a red mark down sticker on them. I generally do this anyway, but it wasn't until one day I realised how much I was saving by buying stuff that were marked down or on sale ( i saved $26 on one bill!) that I would now scour the supermarkets just to find items that have been reduced. Remember to check the expiry dates of course, but you'd be surprised that most often than not these items aren't going to expire until next year or even a year after that! Eg. I bought a box of Newman's microwave popcorn that was reduced from $8 to $4 and wasn't going to expire till 2010. I believe that the supermarkets are marking them down because they've overstocked the items and need to make more shelf space. And of course the other thing to check, if you're buying canned stuff, check that they're not dented.
Sometimes our shopping cart is completely filled with all marked downs stuff, and I told hubby that there's nothing to be embarrassed about. It's not like we're buying food that have expired. We're just being smart. And remember, that when you do buy marked down stuff you are in fact helping the environment. Because those that remain unsold will eventually end up in the dumpster and onto the land fills. My eyes were opened to this fact after watching an episode on Oprah that talked about Freeganism. People who've adopted a freegan lifestyle are against consumerism and go around commercial dumpsters looking for food that are still perfectly edible that have been thrown away by supermarkets. So I may not be going around dumpsters anytime soon, this is the least I can do to help reduce wastage.
And if you're into foreign brands or products, Cold Storage supermarkets usually have a lot of them on mark down. Especially those that are in the prime suburbs where the foreigners or angmohs usually frequent.
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