![]() Yes, we could drive around town getting the best deals on everything and spend hours aquiring groceries, but we could just also work some extra hours at work and make way more with those hours than we'd be saving. We're being absolutely massacred not only in the price of goods, but also in their freshness, quality and actual usability.Īdmittedly we make our dog food out of real meat and vegetables, but we're lucky to spend just 600 dollars a month on groceries and we have very little waste. The 'broccoli crowns' are now 95% stalk by weight with a stalkk almost as big as the crown and half a foot long. My SO and I have been cutting down significantly on 'luxury items' like some kinds of fresh vegetables. Before we did it we were spending waaay too much on food. It's the meal planning that really makes the difference. If something I need for a particular meal isn't there or sold out, welp, I get whatever might be on sale or change the plan slightly. Often the international food aisles will have the same items as regular aisles, but cheaper. But everywhere else is too much) and if their produce section looks like garbage, we top up at Fairway or in Chinatown. We get basics and meat from Walmart (I know, kill me. Fresh veggies are nice, but not more nutritious than frozen. We make sure to have a few breakfast foods and snacks available for the teenager. ![]() Meal planning is always centered on what's for dinner, and with the goal of having enough leftovers for lunch the next day. You guys can't team up on meal planning and share basics?įor my family of 3, we spend between 100-150 on groceries per week. I buy pitas to make homemade pizzas (they also sell pizza kits that come with sauce and 3 large crusts for $10), bread (freeze the rest), soy/oat milk, and some produce like cut watermelon or pineapple, grapes, oranges, whatever I want for breakfast and lunch the next few weeks.Ĭostco only saves you money if you are buying things you would normally buy AND in amounts you will use up. I have an extra deep freeze so I buy frozen fruit to put into muffins/pancakes/baking and smoothies.įor lunches/snacks I pick up apple sauce, fruit cups, fig bars, Builder protein bars, MadeGood bars, maybe some individual trail mix or nut packages, seedweed packets.įor the pantry I stock up on pasta (I eat so much pasta), sushi rice and/or normal rice (Walmart can be cheaper if you watch sales and Wholesale Club is usually cheaper), baking ingredients like brown sugar and icing sugar, maple syrup, oatmeal, ketchup/condimentsįrom fresh I pick up English muffins and wraps to make batches of breakfast sandwiches/wraps for the freezer. ![]() I am not the person you asked but I would like to share what I buy to help cut costs. ![]()
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