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With the cost of food rising, we’re all looking for ways to trim our grocery bills. Planning before you go to the grocery store should play a big role and should include your family needs.

Here are 6 great ways to save almost $3,000 and recipes to go with them from the folks at shine.com:

1. Eat vegetarian a few nights a week.

Try to include a couple of vegetarian meals in your menu for the week. Skipping meat, even once or twice a week, can help save money, since meat is usually the most expensive part of a meal. And you will have a lighter impact on the environment—almost one-fifth of the world’s manmade greenhouse-gas emissions are generated by the meat industry, according to the United Nations. 27 meatless recipes to try.

Savings: $210 per year. (Replace 1 pound of sirloin [$5.99] with a 14-ounce block of tofu [$1.96] once a week for a year.)

2. Minimize waste.

One of the easiest ways to save money is to make sure you’re not wasting food. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans throw out more than 25 percent of the food we prepare. And a study at the University of Arizona that tracked food use and waste from production to the table to the landfill estimated that the average American family of four throws out $590 worth of food each year. So we need to do a better job of using leftovers and learn what to do with food before it’s past its peak.

Savings: $590 per year. (Estimated value of the food an average American household of four wastes in a year.)GET THE REST HERE