Grocery Hacks: Make Shopping More Efficient, Fun and Affordable

Grocery shopping may not be your favorite chore, but these tips and tricks can make it easier and faster: The Grocery Game is a service that matches the lowest-priced products at your supermarket or drugstore matched with manufacturers' coupons and specials and provides you with a custom color-coded shopping list (for more details, watch this video). Dave Cheong's Grocery Shopping Helper is free and helps you map your grocery store by aisle. It's $10 for 8 weeks. Coupon Sherpa links to 100 weekly grocery store circulars. mygrocerydeals.com lets you browse circulars from your local stores in one place and create a shopping list. Housewife Hacks teaches you how to make a price book. And for some more high-tech ideas, check out these grocery shopping apps: Grocery iQ (iPhone, free) helps you build your list and integrates coupons. Sophiestication's Groceries is another cool list-making app (iPhone, $1.99). And Shopper is $0.99, includes barcode scanning, and works on both iPhone and Blackberry. Finally, if you're one of those shoppers who's always interested in the contents of other people's carts, check out the fun grocerylists.org, "the world's largest online collection of found grocery lists."