Stock up and save. It's a motto that Traci Rogers embraces.

Rogers, who lives in east Cherokee County with her husband, Mike, and two young daughters, works the cycle. About every 12 weeks, favorite foods go on sale. She's armed with as many as 10 to 12 coupons for each product, which she gets by buying extra newspapers and from family and friends, so that she can save even more on already discounted items.

"Stockpiling is the big difference," she says. "I don't just go to the grocery store and say, 'What am I going to eat this week?' "

So on this week, she bought 10 packages of Lipton iced tea, 16 cartons of yogurt and eight bottles of barbecue sauce.

Rogers has learned the sale prices for her favorites and monitors Web sites like CouponMom.com for discount information. She supplements fresh produce with vegetables from relatives' gardens. She shops at Kroger because most locations offer markdowns, called manager's specials, on meat and produce that need to sell quickly.

"It's amazing what we can find," she says. "We eat steak two or three nights a week. We eat seafood. We eat really well."

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