Menu Planning Based on Grocery Sales

Ask your grocery store, when the sales are for items.
For example, at one grocery store I go to, I asked the Butcher when the sales on meats goes on. He told me. So now I know. So I plan my menus for example, according to the in store sales. Because I asked them when the sales are. Stores, do have a routine, about when their sales start and end. Weekly. For items.

Also, personally, I make weekly menus, and I have found that to control budget/money spent, I make my grocery list according to what we already have at home on the shelves and in the freezer (so we don't waste food) and I make entrees/meals based on how many ingredients a dish takes. The more ingredients a dish requires for example, it costs more. Especially if you buy ingredients for something, that you will not usually use or if you will not likely use it again. That is a waste of money.
Or if a dish requires more exotic ingredients, that will cost more too. Or it will go to waste if you don't use it up right away.

all the best,
Susan

Not exactly, but www.couponmom.com will tell you the best deals at your local supermarket for the week and you could go from there. It even tells you if there is a coupon out that corresponds to the weekly sale items in your store. I'm curious to see your responses.

I LOVE these sites:

http://www.pennypinchinmom.com/category/menu-plan-saturday/

http://www.themomsresource.com/

They are two different mom bloggers who now cooperate their sites together. One lives in Kansas City and I live in Tennessee, but most of the time the sales all around the country are pretty similar at least in chain stores.

Good luck saving! ^_^

Don't know about websites that combine the two, but I read the ads (they go Wed-Tues at my local store) and see what's on sale. Then I grab my index cards with our favorite 'meals' written on them. Here's how my index cards work:

I make a card with GROUND BEEF written on it, one with SHRIMP/FISH written on it, CHICKEN, SAUSAGE, etc. So if chicken is on sale, I will look and see what meals we haven't eaten in a while or what dish might have other ingredients on sale or just what I feel like eating/cooking (chicken enchiladas, tacos, chicken salad sandwiches, garden grilled chicken salad, etc).

Whenever I don't know what to cook, these index cards help a lot. One, btw, is "OTHER" and it includes pork chops, chili dogs, steak, overloaded baked potato.....

If you have a lot of ingredients, go to allrecipes.com and click on "ingredients" and it will let you type in what ingredients you have or don't have and will tell you all the recipes that have those ingredients (ie, type in ground beef, carrots, potatoes and see what recipes show up!)