But the price comparison we did with my daughters fruit haul was really graphic. Even though it was fruit that I consider too expensive to buy on a limited budget, the fact that there was a ten percent swing in costs was evident.
Think about this, the fruit was the same, The average family spends 8000.00 a year on food. Ten percent of that is 800.00. That's a chunk of change in my book. That's the natural gas bill .
We spend less than.1/2 of of the natural average. That's because we buy almost all of our food at 1/2 price and less. I'm not going to say that it takes no thought or effort. I make up the extra time I spend planning a trip with cooking efficiently. Most meals take less than twenty minutes of non- passive time. We eat a variety of meals and we eat balanced meals.
The food pyramid has worked for years. It it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Groceries on the cheap is looking at the Put Dinner On The Table meal train from a different
Perspective . The emphasis is on purchasing good food( shelf- stabll/ freezer staples )at the lowest possible cost and purchasing enough to last you until it goes on sale again -- Keeping a controlled non-perishable stock of the things you use on a regular basis. It means that when you shop, rather than purchasing just what you need for a day or a week, you buy a loss leader protein, produce you will
need on sale, a stock item if it's a RBP, and dairy instead. This allows you to put well balanced meals
on the table consistently for a four dollar a day budget per person. You spend more time on the
planning and shopping end of the meal train and less on the cooking end by cooking efficiently.
Four dollars a day is the target amount for people on snap. My premise is that of you can do it on four dollars a day, spending more isn't hard. You still get more bang for your buck.
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