{"id":668256,"date":"2026-09-14T13:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=668256"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:24:22","slug":"the-simple-shopping-list-change-that-cuts-grocery-bills-start-with-what-you-already-have-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=668256","title":{"rendered":"The simple shopping list change that cuts grocery bills: Start with what you already have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people write a grocery list by thinking about what they want to eat. That is the wrong end. The change worth making is small enough to feel trivial: before writing anything, open the refrigerator, the freezer and the pantry, and write down what is already in there.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/09\/14\/Walmart_Superstore_26758_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\" title=\"The simple shopping list change that cuts grocery bills: Start with what you already have\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people write a grocery list by thinking about what they want to eat. That is the wrong end. The change worth making is small enough to feel trivial: before writing anything, open the refrigerator, the freezer and the pantry, and write down what is already in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}