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Know Your Prices

Know Your Prices

    If you know the standard prices of groceries you regularly buy, you can save yourself a nice chunk of money as you hunt for specials and do your grocery shopping each month. Knowing my prices certainly helps me! So I’ve decided to share my list of the lowest prices of grocery items on […]

Meal Planning Around Specials

Meal Planning Around Specials

    Today I’m going to share with you how I meal plan monthly around specials in the shops. I have been doing this for so long now that I don’t think it would even occur to me to simply walk into a shop and buy whatever I want and whenever I want! Your grocery […]

Are you a fan of Stockpiling?

Are you a fan of stockpiling

  I’m a huge fan of stockpiling non-perishable items in moderation. We don’t have a lot of space to store food or other items so my stockpile can never get too big, which is a good thing! I do have enough space for stockpiling certain items which we use on a regular basis and whenever […]

My Take on Snap n Save

My Take on Snap n Save

  I first heard of Snap n Save mobile app sometime late last year. I downloaded and started using the mobile app a few months ago. Having read and come across so many blog posts by fellow frugal bloggers, especially in the UK and the US, about cash-back apps, I was thrilled to finally come […]

Grocery Savings in August

Grocery

    Because I’ve been doing the Pantry and Freezer Challenge for a couple of weeks now, and using up groceries from our pantry and freezer, I spent less than what I budgeted for our grocery shopping in both July and August. This month’s grocery shopping was definitely a breeze as I didn’t need to […]

Small Grocery Savings in July

Shopping trolleys

  Apart from being cold, July has definitely been a quiet month in terms of grocery shopping in our household. I have been so swamped with work over the past 7 weeks, and including weekends, that I have not had the time or the energy to do as much grocery shopping as I normally do. […]

Why I Love Unilever Deals Coupons

Discount coupons

    I love Unilever Deals coupons. I have been using their coupons for several months now and I have scored some pretty good deals so far! Before I go grocery shopping nowadays I always check what coupons are available.   Unilever Deals website offers coupons for various Unilever products which you can use at […]

Fruits & Veggies on Special This...

Fruits & Veggies

    This weekend we had to go shopping for some fresh fruits & veggies. So off we went to our favourite greengrocer’s in the Alberton area: Apple Tree fresh Food Market Alberton. We went mid-morning so it wasn’t too cold for us to traipse about and being the middle of the month, the area […]

4 Posts That Will Save You Money in 2...

4 posts that will save you money in 2016

  With food prices and other household costs expected to rise early this year, it looks like we’re going to have to brace ourselves and start paying a bit more according to this news report The price of everything is going up in SA. Here are 4 posts that will save you money in the […]

Frugal Shopping: Coupons, Specials &#...

For Sale

This is a topic I’ve been meaning to write about for a while now. As my family and friends know already, it is also probably the most useful advice I could give anyone when it comes to saving quite a few Rand each month when you’re out and about doing your month-end shopping.     […]

Welcome to Frugal in SA

 
Living life more frugally and more economically in South Africa is what Frugal in SA is all about. I love to cook and bake on a budget and I’m always looking for ways to save on household expenses each month. My faith encourages me to live a life free from debt, to be less wasteful and ever more resourceful. I hope you will find inspiration in these pages. Happy Frugal Living!

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