Spending a lot on food? Readers lead you to savings

April 17, 2006August 23, 2009
Saving money

“We asked readers to tell us how they saved money on food. And they responded. And responded. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the average family of four spends more than $8,000 a year on [groceries].”

This is the world's largest collection of found grocery lists. In fact, we wrote the book on found grocery lists.

Why? Other peoples' grocery lists are fascinating. Plus, the internet is a great place to do ~~stupid~~ interesting things. So far 3,800 funny, crazy, weird, sad and/or mundane discarded scraps of paper have been posted. But it's not all useless stuff—we also link to useful and interesting articles about food, shopping, lists, collecting, and more, as well as provide a pretty awesome downloadable PDF grocery list for free.