Have you seen the new Wal-Mart add?  The one where they tell you if you spend $100 a week on groceries you can save $55 a month by shopping at Wal-Mart.  Can I just say… I can save you more!!!

If you haven’t already found Angel Food Ministries, boy do I have a treat for you!!  Angel Food Ministries purchases food in bulk and distributes  boxes of dinners (a week’s worth for a family of 4) at local churches.  Now before you say to yourself, “I don’t need charity,”  ”I make too much money,” or any other “downer” statement, hear me out.  Angel Food is not based on your income.  They say the only qualification is if you can eat.  I have been getting Angel Food for  years and to be quite honest, I would not be eating New York Strip steaks without it.  In fact I have tried to beat the $30 a box by comparing the prices to Wal-Mart.  {Click here to see the blog.} Hey, I don’t feel like I am taking charity when I pick up the food.  I am purchasing it at a discounted price…. no gimmicks, no bad feelings, and really good food.

Okay, so let’s take a look at the Wal-Mart challenge.  A savings of $55 per month comes to $13.50 a week in savings….. spending $86.50 for groceries.  Alright, now Angel Food only cost $30 for a week’s worth of dinners plus eggs and a small box of milk (I use the milk to cook with rather than drinking.).  Now, all you need is lunch which I discovered only to be 29 cents to make per day.  So for a family of 4 for a week, lunch will cost $5.80.  Okay and breakfast….for two boxes of cereal ($6.00), milk (3.00 a gal), toast (1.08 a loaf of Wal-Mart’s bread), and orange juice (Bright & Early brand $2.00).  That would be a total for breakfast for the week roughly $12.00.  (And may I add you could go cheaper if you made your own breakfast instead of cereal.) The entire week’s cost is $47.80 for the week.

So Wal-Mart can save you $13.5o and I can save you $52.20 a week which in turn means a savings of $208 a month.  Try it again Wal-Mart!!  You can keep your $55 savings… I am going with the $208!!

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