The figures for the two weeks of January are posted and I am a whole .50 a week UNDER. I have not had to buy meat yet. 55.00 a week is my budget because I did it in that all last year. That is considerably less than the 120.00 that is the USDA figures fir cost if food at home for thrifty shoppers. Unlike some people that write mineynsacing, there is no ciw in the backyard, and we didn’t can veggies and fruit all summer. We don’t have our food brought in from Walmart, nor do we feed seven people veggies that fill a soup bowl . This is real food in real time . We just got the stats from our checkups at the doctor and we all are under the maximum BMI for normal levels. Just an added advantage of portion control . LOL
In case you are new, we use a multi disapline approach to groceries on the cheap.
- Never pay full price for your food.
- Shop multiple stores. No one store has all the best prices.
- Shop your pantry, and replenish the pantry with sale priced staples.
- Use coupons when it makes sense for real food.
- Use a rebate program like ibotta to save even more. I don’t count ibotta in my price calculations.
- Portion control. If you put a whole roast on the table, some people will eat a whole roast on the table.
- Learn to cook from scratch. Boxed dinner meals are expensive and not full of nutrition. Easy scratch recipes are all over the internet.
- The average family has 10 entree’s they eat on a regular basis. Perfect those entrees. That means you are only eTing that dinner three times during the month
- Plan your meals. An organized kitchen is less stressful at supper time.
- Stock up when things that you use on a regular basis are at a RBP. It makes no sense to have 10 bottles if mustard , but 10 cans of green beans is another story. Cans are the only storage solution other than dehydrating that will hold up in a disaster. We have storms here that take out the power grid. You still have to eat , even if the power is out,
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