Clip & save: celebrate your grocery bill.

Bring your casserole or leave it at home, but don't forget your coupons! Chrissy Pate and Kristin McKee are two moms in Kansas City, Mo., who turned coupon clipping into a money-saving social gathering.

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Pate and McKee host BeCentsAble workshops to show people how to dramatically reduce grocery bills by layering coupons and discounts. Both share tips like looking first for sales in the stores, then looking for coupons for those same items, or even better, going to a store that offers double coupon credit. Or combine a manufacturer's coupon with a coupon offered by the store.

Both women advise saving Sunday circulars and using Web sites like CouponMom.com or HotCouponWorld.com to find a coupon for a specific product in those circulars. AFullCup.com, HotCouponWorld.com and Coupons.com also generate coupons.

If you think it sounds too time-consuming, think again. Both women offer their best deals on BeCentsAble.net, doing the legwork for you. And, they say, with practice, saving, cutting and using coupons will become second nature.

While stores like Target post store coupons on their Web site for two weeks, the coupons are good for six weeks, and if those items go on sale within those six weeks, you can double your savings. Pate saves an average of $400 per month.