There is no question that the idea of printing grocery coupons is becoming more and more popular as people need to save money. The other reason for the popularity are television shows such as “Extreme Couponing”. These shows highlight people who supposedly get hundreds of dollars worth of groceries for what seems to be pennies.

You can spend your Sunday afternoon clipping dozens of coupons out of the newspaper or you can find printable manufacturer’s grocery coupons online. However, you have to know where to look so that you don’t end up on a website where you are signing up for things that will wind up bringing nothing but spam to your e-mail inbox. In fact, some of these sites can be a little scammy and spammy themselves. So, in an effort to save you from spinning your wheels, let’s talk about the top 10 websites to find printable manufacturer’s grocery coupons.

1. www.CouponMom.com: CouponMom has become a very popular place for people to go in the last few years. A lot of that has been due to the fact that she was on Oprah and has gotten a lot of great press for her website. The site is really good because it offers links to many other sites where legitimate coupons are offered. It also gives you up-to-the-minute information on the best sales at local grocery stores and drugstores.

2. www.SmartSource.com: This site offers free coupons and discounts for many top brands as well as online coupons. They are very easy to print using the site’s online coupon printing software.

3. www.GroceryCoupons.com: This site has a free program that allows you to print your own coupons from thousands of name brands, but it also offers a coupon clipping service and local coupons as well as a deal finder.

4. www.RedPlum.com: Many people will know Red Plum from their circulars in the Sunday newspaper each week. They offer grocery store coupons as well as restaurant and drugstore discounts.

5. www.CoolSavings.com: Cool Savings offers printable name brand coupons as well as online coupon codes for consumers who want to save more money.

6. www.PPGazette.com: This site offers coupons from a variety of sources that you can print such as Valpak, SmartSource, RedPlum and Coupons.com. The site says that you can print them all from one convenient location.

7. www.Coupons.com: No list would be complete without a site called Coupons.com, right? The site is a virtual clearinghouse of coupons from a variety of different sources.

8. www.CouponDivas.com: This site is for the coupon diehard who wants to learn how to save big money using coupons. They have a retail coupon list, kids eat free list and coupon database as well as 70 hours a free tutorial videos.

9. www.GrocerySmarts.com: This site is for someone who likes a much simpler method for finding coupons as they are laid out by the week according to the manufacturer name. The site is definitely not hard to maneuver like many of the other coupon sites.

10. www.Kroger.com: Surprisingly, many of the grocery store chains have manufacturer’s coupons right on their websites. Some of them also have customer loyalty cards where you can electronically load coupons on your card so you do not even have to clip them and bring them with you. Kroger is just one grocery store at that has this option. You can certainly check at your local grocery stores to see what kinds of deals are offered on their websites and whether or not they have a loyalty card where you can load your coupons.

Couponing does not have to be the hard and arduous task that it used to be. You don’t necessarily have to carry a big envelope or binder full of coupons as long as you are careful in your planning before you make any shopping trips. Knowing in advance what you’re going to get and what coupons you have can save you a lot of time and money.