This document provides tips for planning grocery shopping trips with kids, including starting a deals list, drafting store-specific email lists, using the Evernote program to stay organized, skimming flyers for deals and adding notes, checking loyalty programs for bonus points or air miles offers, making a regular shopping list and finding coupons, deciding which stores to visit and when based on sales and inventory, and preparing for the shopping by discussing plans with others.

1. Thing 4: Planning your shopping Shopping with the kids Photo by Mr. Brown, Flickr

2. Here's what I do

3. Start a Deals List Draft email, organized by store

4. Evernote program

5. About evernote.com Free, In the cloud

6. Skim the Flyers

7. Add notes at the top

12. Pick My Stores Decide where I’m going to shop. Usually go to Shoppers on Saturday and a grocery store on weekend for special items My husband does the main shop

13. How Do You Prep for Shopping? Cya on our team’s thread.