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Buy what’s on sale

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March 31, 2009

Gourmet.com’s frugality blogger, W. Hodding Carter, recently revealed his technique for saving money at the grocery store: buying only what's on sale. That’s it; no menu planning, no coupon-clipping, no planning ahead, period. Just what’s on sale. And then turning on the creative juices to make a meal out of, say, asparagus, shrimp, and cream — all on sale.

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