Family Budget

I’ve always wanted to build a tool to help people create a grocery list. Someday I may still do that, but for now I found a really cool tool online that lists tons of grocery prices at local stores in your area. All you have to do is put in your zip code and it automatically pulls up the grocery stores that they have in their database from your area.

That’s not even the best part though! This company has actually compiled and continues to track grocery prices for the past 19 years!! As you look through the list of groceries, they have stars next to each item indicating how good of a sale price each one is.

For grocery list items that are a great deal (based on historical data), they will have five stars next to them. If something is not such a good deal then it will only have one star and so on. So you can see grocery prices from various different stores at once, all categorized together (i.e. household cleaning supplies, meats, dairy, etc.) and it even lets you select how many of each item to add to your grocery list.

When you’re all done, you can print it out and take it to the store(s) with you. This is a huge time and money saver for any grocery shopper! This makes it so easy to include two or three stores in your grocery shopping trip without feeling like you are running all over town for no reason. This will actually save you time because you know before you even go into the grocery store exactly what items you are getting because you saw it all online from the comfort of your home.

I also recommend you check out the version put together at bellaonline.com for comparing grocery prices. This is powered by the www.groceryguide.com, but they have put it together in a little different format that I like better.

Don’t forget to come back and leave a comment about what you think of this grocery list tool.