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1. Compare store brand organics’ prices at your local stores:<\/b>\u00a0 Check out the store brands in the organic department and compare prices between stores to find the best deals.\u00a0 Most supermarkets have store brand organic items, Whole Foods has an extensive line of store brand items, and even wholesale clubs and discount big box stores have organic produce and grocery items. Store brand organic items’ prices may be no more expensive than name brand conventional items.<\/p>\n
2. Learn the \u201cClean 15\u201d and the \u201cDirty Dozen.\u201d<\/b> The Environmental Working Group, a non-profit public health advocacy group, provides a free Pesticides in Produce<\/i><\/b> Shopping Guide (ewg.org). Download the list or the app to see which items contain the least and the most pesticide residue. I stretch my dollar by selectively purchasing organic versions of the \u201cClean 15\u201d such as onions, avocados, sweet corn, asparagus, cabbage, broccoli, watermelon and purchase conventional versions of the \u201cDirty Dozen\u201d which includes apples, strawberries and grapes.<\/p>\n
3. Shop the bulk Department. <\/b>Stores provide containers and let you scoop out the perfect amount of an item that you desire to purchase. Look for organic beans, teas, grains, flour, oatmeal, or spices to buy this way and you are less likely to waste food. Don\u2019t assume every item in bulk is cheaper, bring your calculator and compare prices by the ounce or pound to pre-packed items.<\/p>\n
4. Use Coupons<\/b>. Check the Sunday newspaper circulars and printable coupon sites <\/a>for many organic brands. \u00a0Pick up in-store coupon booklets, such as Whole Foods’ booklet or print the coupons from the Whole Foods website. Check out manufacturers websites for organic brands. We found printable coupons at more than 50 organic online sites. \u00a0You can also \u00a0send an email request via organic manufacturers websites and ask if they have coupons that they can mail to you. \u00a0We received dozens of great coupons with that simple strategy, delivered to our home.<\/p>\n 5. Grow your own savings<\/b>. Nothing beats the price \u2013 and the taste- of a tomato you harvest from your own backyard or even your deck. Short on space? Purchase cheap plant containers at garage sales or flea markets. You can also make your own container out of old buckets, jars, plastic trash containers, ceramic pots, or other cleaned containers you have around the home. Growing staples like lettuce, tomatoes, peppers and herbs can provide the most bang for your buck.<\/p>\n Stephanie Nelson is the Coupon Mom. With more than 7 million members, Coupon Mom<\/a> gives members access to thousands of printable coupons<\/a> for groceries, restaurants and more. As the nation\u2019s top expert in couponing across the country, Stephanie has been on every major national television talk show and taught millions how to save money for the past 16 years. She has been called \u2018\u201dthe rock star of the recession\u201d by the Washington Post and her book,\u00a0The Coupon Mom\u2019s Guide to Cutting Your Grocery Bills in Half, is a New York Times best seller.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1. Compare store brand organics’ prices at your local stores:\u00a0 Check out the store brands in the organic department and compare prices between stores to find the best deals.\u00a0 Most supermarkets have store brand organic items, Whole Foods has an extensive line of store brand items, and even wholesale clubs and discount big box […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-savings-topics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5waystosaveonorganic.png?fit=650%2C328&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8FFMs-eBm","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56151,"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56132\/revisions\/56151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}