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If you grocery shop on the weekend, wait until Sunday.

The sales tax on unprepared food goes down two cents a dollar Sunday, from 5 cents to 3 cents, allowing you to put, say, an extra chunk of cheese in the grocery cart on a $100 budget.

The permanent decrease is one facet of a tangled property tax reform package that passed the Legislature earlier this year and is still being hammered out at the local level.

The sales tax on other items goes up one cent next year, and could go up still another cent if the County Council takes advantage of a local option that would further reduce property taxes.

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First, though, unprepared food gets cheaper, slicing just under 2 percent off one of your biggest monthly bills and denting state revenues to the tune of $96.5 million for this fiscal year.

About $11.6 million would have come from Greenville County, according to the Bureau of Economic Advisors.

State legislators have said it's a way to give revenue surpluses back to taxpayers.