Grocery bill

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I try to spend around $100 a week before prices raised so much. I'm probably at $125 a week or so. I do shop at Aldi and Lidl. I make most things from scratch. I buy meat at other grocery stores that is discounted because it is close to the (or on the) sell by date. I often buy bread that is also discounted (today, for example, was $.80 for English muffins as they were 30% off because the sell by date is tomorrow). I hit grocery stores only when they are near another task (today was a sports practice). I also get the produce on sale that week.

Me again: tonight we had tilapia fillets from Aldi. They were 50% off. They expire on Tuesday. I bought three packages, each had 3 filets in them. Each package was around $4 before the discount. So 9 filets for $6. Of course, this means that you have to do flexible with what you will make, have freezer room (I bought 1 more package and froze it), and be an okay enough cook that you can pivot from usual rotated meals to ones that have things you found on sale.

You also have to be able to catch deals.

[Anonymous]

That sounds right.

[Anonymous]

We are a family of three ( one 6 year old). We do buy quality of food, organic etc. ( mainly Whole Foods/Costco), also Safeway. We spend about $900 per month. We shop mainly sales/offers and stock up. We don't go out at all and don't order foods. We don't go to any Starbuck stores.

[Anonymous]

We are probably about 1k per month and we are family of 4 (a 5 yo girl and 20 month girl) and I admit I’m not the best deal shopper for meal planner and I don’t shop at Aldi or Walmart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I try to spend around $100 a week before prices raised so much. I'm probably at $125 a week or so. I do shop at Aldi and Lidl. I make most things from scratch. I buy meat at other grocery stores that is discounted because it is close to the (or on the) sell by date. I often buy bread that is also discounted (today, for example, was $.80 for English muffins as they were 30% off because the sell by date is tomorrow). I hit grocery stores only when they are near another task (today was a sports practice). I also get the produce on sale that week.

Me again: tonight we had tilapia fillets from Aldi. They were 50% off. They expire on Tuesday. I bought three packages, each had 3 filets in them. Each package was around $4 before the discount. So 9 filets for $6. Of course, this means that you have to do flexible with what you will make, have freezer room (I bought 1 more package and froze it), and be an okay enough cook that you can pivot from usual rotated meals to ones that have things you found on sale.

You also have to be able to catch deals. [/quote
Yes, of course. It’s a lot of things to make this work:

- room to store things;

- flexibility with what you will cook

- Flexibility with what you will eat

- time to cook

Etc.

There are definitely a lot of parts to this but it works for us. We also try to reuse food so it is t a direct leftover. Tonight was a whole roasted chicken. The bones were used in the instapot to make broth. Tomorrow it will become chicken noodle soup. Leftover chicken becomes tacos, soup, Thai food, etc.