While turning to coupons for everyday family grocery shopping isn’t obviously a new tact for saving money at home, especially during these difficult economic times, it can come in especially helpful as a time management and supplementary income feature of your career and home management balancing act. And you can save 50% or more.

And it’s an especially fun challenge to, each week, “trip the brakes” of the grocery store’s financial management systems!

The system I’ve been using this past year is part online “Grocery Game“, and part home coupon management – and it adds up to BIG savings, especially when supermarket prices are rapidly declining (see today’s Washington Post) and coupon values are increasing.

In the past few weeks, every time I’ve been to the store with my coupons at-the-ready, I’ve caused problems – the “discount threshold” after the coupons are run is evidently exceeded, and the store manager has to come and approve my order. For example, my bill is $280, with discounts reduced to $130 – it’s usually a savings of more than 50% that trips ‘em up and sounds the alarms, and this is becoming a regular occurrence, and mission.

That extra $150 every 2 weeks or so goes directly to the purchase of things like printer toner, ISP charges, paper and other home office supplies – though sometimes get diverted (way to much, actually) to children’s birthday party expenses.

Let me know if you need more details and tips on reducing your food bill, consistently, by 50% or more.