- She shops once a month at wall mart. I have a "vote with your pocketbook" issue with Walmart. I know, it's personal and everyone has their opinions and is entitled to them. Regardless. They price things and of you squawk and show them where it is cheaper, they will match the price. Bologna . I don't have patience with that. Besides, for me, it's a long ways away,
- Once a month shopping to one store does not give you a good 😊Variety of sales. You, depending on the store and the time of the month could be paying top dollar for your food. You also only have one pick of the produce. We went to Costco yesterday to get some long term stock items. The strawberries looked terrible. A lot of people get paid the first of the month, the stores know that and they don't have the best prices as a rule of thumb. They are going to charge what the traffic will bear because those people shop from payday to payday for what they need, In other words, they HAVE TO HAVE food. So, they can give you the short end of the stick.
- It's never a good idea to buy a lot of snack foods and pop.
- Even if you buy food once a month, you will still have to go for perishables or you are eating canned and frozen the end of the month.
- If you include alcohol , household items and heigene items and junk food in your total, you are not getting a true price of cost of food at home. Besides, shopping at the grocery store for those sundry items means you are laying top dollar for them usually. that isle has the biggest markup. Keeping a separate line item on your budget for sundry items is a real eye opener.
- You need to have blinders on when it co,es to impulse buys, impulse buys are 60-70 percent of a stores profit. They over price these things often and prominently display them to tempt you. Often, the things in that temptation isle are higher priced than another same item in the store.
- To be fair, she was not saying that she was on a limited budget. Even if I had ootkes of money, I would not buy ootkes ofmsnaxk food. It's not good for you, and it's wasting money on my book. If it doesn't have some real nutrition, it's not a good buy.
Just a note : my daughter and I dissected a hamburger meal box. The analysis is on an older blog. Bottom line os that it was over two dollars and it had 4 ounces including tare weight of pasta ( about .22 if you pay an average price for pasta , and 1.57 ounces of a cheese sauce that didn't have any cholesterol. That calculated to 13.00 a pound. Good steak is 13.00 a pound!
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