GROCERY SHOPPING WITH A PLAN

Each night, millions of families shutter at the prospect of what to make for dinner. Last minute grocery shopping, takeout and dining out, often take the place of healthy home-cooked meals, and important family time dwindles. Relish! offers the solution and the tools to help families get back to the dinner table, establish healthy eating habits and save money at the same time.

• Stop the grocery grab. Shopping with a list -- and keeping to it -- is the most effective way to save money, according to the Consumer Credit Counseling Service.

• Avoid ‘crisis cooking’ -- otherwise known as rushing to the grocery store just before the dinner hour. Because you tend to reach for higher-priced, convenience items, shopping in a panic is expensive and unhealthy.

• Between dining out, pizza deliveries, takeout lunches, and coffee stops, an average American family spends thousands of dollars a year. Relish! doesn’t advocate eliminating all outside dining; instead, make dining out a special event or celebration, and not a last-minute act of hungry desperation.

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