{"id":129,"date":"2011-10-24T20:09:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T03:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/?p=129"},"modified":"2011-11-01T20:36:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T03:36:04","slug":"guidelines-for-tightwad-grocery-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines for Tightwad Grocery Shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Easy Eats for Hard Times<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shop only once a week. Make do if you run out during the week.<\/li>\n<li>Give preference to supermarket brands.<\/li>\n<li>Buy produce in season (when it\u2019s freshest and cheapest).<\/li>\n<li>Clip coupons only if they are for products you would ordinarily buy. Coupons are not the magic answer.<\/li>\n<li>Make a list and stick to it.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t shop when you\u2019re hungry.<\/li>\n<li>Read the ads for the specials and build your meal plans for the week around them before you leave the house.<\/li>\n<li>Buy spices in plastic envelopes, not in jars.<\/li>\n<li>Buy everything as close to its natural state as possible. (Exceptions: frozen peas, salted nuts.)<\/li>\n<li>Start your daily meal plans by checking what needs to be used up right away, then get creative around that ingredient.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2014Patty C. of Fallbrook, Calif.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easy Eats for Hard Times Shop only once a week. Make do if you run out during the week. Give preference to supermarket brands. Buy produce in season (when it\u2019s freshest and cheapest). Clip coupons only if they are for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/?p=129\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[68,67,48,66,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}