Everyone is looking for a way to save money these days. One great way to do that is by using grocery coupons. I had only thought about grocery coupons as being the ones you find in your Sunday paper but you can find lots of online grocery coupons too. This is a summary of my introduction to online grocery coupons.

First, not all stores will take online grocery coupons. You should check with the store for their policy on using them. One of the stores where I shop will honor the coupons, but only if they can be scanned. While they might manually enter in a newspaper coupon they won’t do that with an online grocery coupon.

Second, you’ll have to install programs on your computer that allow you to print the bar code on the grocery coupons. These programs are safe to use. As long as you are running a good anti virus/anti spyware program that is up to date you’ll be fine.

Next, you will want to get a junk email account for your coupon surfing. Some of the websites require you to sign up with an email address to get access to the coupons. You don’t want to use your regular email address because, trust me, you will be overloaded with emails. You can check your coupon email address once or twice a week. There are lots of places online to get free email addresses like Yahoo!, Gmail, AOL and Hotmail.

Finally, you are ready to begin searching for online grocery coupons. Here are some of the sites I found that have some good coupons to use:

www.Redplum.com
www.Coupons.com
www.Coolsavings.com
www.Couponsurfer.com

Don’t forget to go to the official websites for the products you use. You can often find some good coupons there too!