What is your monthly grocery store bill? Generally

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Anonymous wrote:Have y'all ever heard of coupons?

The Safeway app has discounts that in some cases are not advertised.

It is rare to find coupons on anything fresh. I feed my family fresh food, not boxed, canned, frozen crap.

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Anonymous wrote:Have y'all ever heard of coupons?

The Safeway app has discounts that in some cases are not advertised.

It is rare to find coupons on anything fresh. I feed my family fresh food, not boxed, canned, frozen crap.

But fruit and other things are on sale on a regular basis.

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We spend about $1000. That includes things like sandwich bags, paper towels, dishwasher detergent, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:$2000 family of 4. Two under 5.

How do you spend that much for a family of four with little kids??

That is way more than we spend and we have three boys, a teenager and two preteens, plus a neighborhood of boys who are always muching on something.

Do you have a special diet?

I was wondering the same thing. We shop at Whole Foods, Wegmens and Trader Joe's. I have 2 small kids who don't eat a whole lot. I spend about $300/wk.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have y'all ever heard of coupons?

The Safeway app has discounts that in some cases are not advertised.

It is rare to find coupons on anything fresh. I feed my family fresh food, not boxed, canned, frozen crap.

But fruit and other things are on sale on a regular basis.

Not PP, but yes, they are on sale. And no, they are not usually the best price or quality at places like Safeway.

I'm happy to pay a little extra for farmer's market, CSA, or even grocery organic so that my kids don't get exposed to so many herbicides, pesticides, hormones, and antibiotics.

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1200 for family of 5.

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I spend about $1000 a month for DH, me, and two little ones. We buy only organic meat and cook dinner every night.

It's definitely a lot, but I feel good about how we eat. And DH is an endurance athlete, so his meals alone are a lot of food.

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Anonymous wrote:Have y'all ever heard of coupons?

The Safeway app has discounts that in some cases are not advertised.

Have you ever heard of the value of time? Rather than scour apps and print ads for coupons on mostly brand name products that aren't on my list, I'd rather plan out meals, shop at Aldi/Costco.

I sure have, it is called planning. The app/website in Safeway's case takes less than 5 minutes to see what is on sale for that current week.

Coupons, ten minutes tops, the Sunday Wash Post doesn't add that many.

I guess you don't like to save money on shampoo, soap, ice cream, and other things that are not on your meal preparation list either?

All of that stuff is cheaper as Brand X at Aldi/Costco!

Yup. And coupons are for processed foods. No thanks, don't eat that crap. My food is cooked from fresh ingredients. We MIGHT consume 2 boxes of ice cream a year.maybe.

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Anonymous wrote:Have y'all ever heard of coupons?

The Safeway app has discounts that in some cases are not advertised.

Have you ever heard of the value of time? Rather than scour apps and print ads for coupons on mostly brand name products that aren't on my list, I'd rather plan out meals, shop at Aldi/Costco.

I sure have, it is called planning. The app/website in Safeway's case takes less than 5 minutes to see what is on sale for that current week.

Coupons, ten minutes tops, the Sunday Wash Post doesn't add that many.

I guess you don't like to save money on shampoo, soap, ice cream, and other things that are not on your meal preparation list either?

All of that stuff is cheaper as Brand X at Aldi/Costco!

Really? I have seen ice cream as low as $2 at Safeway depending on the week. Let's put it this way, between sales and other things, I have saved well over $500 this year.
Also, Aldi isn't that popular (at least in Northern VA, just did a search in multiple cities). Costco is a pain to get in and out of, and frankly, bulk only works if you have the cabinet space and a big enough family.

What??? I'm in n.va and love aldi.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have y'all ever heard of coupons?

The Safeway app has discounts that in some cases are not advertised.

Have you ever heard of the value of time? Rather than scour apps and print ads for coupons on mostly brand name products that aren't on my list, I'd rather plan out meals, shop at Aldi/Costco.

I sure have, it is called planning. The app/website in Safeway's case takes less than 5 minutes to see what is on sale for that current week.

Coupons, ten minutes tops, the Sunday Wash Post doesn't add that many.

I guess you don't like to save money on shampoo, soap, ice cream, and other things that are not on your meal preparation list either?

All of that stuff is cheaper as Brand X at Aldi/Costco!

Yup. And coupons are for processed foods. No thanks, don't eat that crap. My food is cooked from fresh ingredients. We MIGHT consume 2 boxes of ice cream a year.maybe.

You never buy flour, graham crackers, chocolate chips, sour cream, spices, vegetable oil, yeast, cream cheese, raisins, egg noodles, tea bags, tapioca....? Must be quite a little operation you're running in your kitchen. Or the most boring diet ever.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have y'all ever heard of coupons?

The Safeway app has discounts that in some cases are not advertised.

Have you ever heard of the value of time? Rather than scour apps and print ads for coupons on mostly brand name products that aren't on my list, I'd rather plan out meals, shop at Aldi/Costco.

I sure have, it is called planning. The app/website in Safeway's case takes less than 5 minutes to see what is on sale for that current week.

Coupons, ten minutes tops, the Sunday Wash Post doesn't add that many.

I guess you don't like to save money on shampoo, soap, ice cream, and other things that are not on your meal preparation list either?

All of that stuff is cheaper as Brand X at Aldi/Costco!

Yup. And coupons are for processed foods. No thanks, don't eat that crap. My food is cooked from fresh ingredients. We MIGHT consume 2 boxes of ice cream a year.maybe.

You never buy flour, graham crackers, chocolate chips, sour cream, spices, vegetable oil, yeast, cream cheese, raisins, egg noodles, tea bags, tapioca....? Must be quite a little operation you're running in your kitchen. Or the most boring diet ever.

Flour, Arthur's only
Graham crackers. Never.
Chocolate chips, 2xs a year.
Sour cream, 4xs a year. Maybe. If I'm cooking with enough sour cream to need to clip coupons to safe some money, we'd be fat.
Vegetable oil...who uses that stuff anymore? OOV and avocado olive, both costco.
Yeast, about a packet a week. Full retail price seventy five CENTS.
Cream cheese, one package every 2 weeks
Raisins, Costco
Egg noodles? Never. Nasty. No nutritional value.
Tea bags, no. Loose tea.
Tapioca? No.

I make things like chicken curry, okonomiyaki, shakshuka, lots of salads with simple home made dressing of lemon, OOV, and dijon,.

I've seen coupons before and they are for absolute traditional american garbage diets. Like food for assembling casseroles with an egg noodles base.

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Is wine counted in the food budget?

Family of 4 with 2 boys (one is a teen) - spend about $150/week on home-cooked food. I buy at Costco, Safeway & MOM's organic market. We pick up tacos once or twice a week on nights we have sports practices/games. Wine and meat are the big-ticket items.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have y'all ever heard of coupons?

The Safeway app has discounts that in some cases are not advertised.

Have you ever heard of the value of time? Rather than scour apps and print ads for coupons on mostly brand name products that aren't on my list, I'd rather plan out meals, shop at Aldi/Costco.

I sure have, it is called planning. The app/website in Safeway's case takes less than 5 minutes to see what is on sale for that current week.

Coupons, ten minutes tops, the Sunday Wash Post doesn't add that many.

I guess you don't like to save money on shampoo, soap, ice cream, and other things that are not on your meal preparation list either?

All of that stuff is cheaper as Brand X at Aldi/Costco!

Yup. And coupons are for processed foods. No thanks, don't eat that crap. My food is cooked from fresh ingredients. We MIGHT consume 2 boxes of ice cream a year.maybe.

You never buy flour, graham crackers, chocolate chips, sour cream, spices, vegetable oil, yeast, cream cheese, raisins, egg noodles, tea bags, tapioca....? Must be quite a little operation you're running in your kitchen. Or the most boring diet ever.

Flour, Arthur's only
Graham crackers. Never.
Chocolate chips, 2xs a year.
Sour cream, 4xs a year. Maybe. If I'm cooking with enough sour cream to need to clip coupons to safe some money, we'd be fat.
Vegetable oil...who uses that stuff anymore? OOV and avocado olive, both costco.
Yeast, about a packet a week. Full retail price seventy five CENTS.
Cream cheese, one package every 2 weeks
Raisins, Costco
Egg noodles? Never. Nasty. No nutritional value.
Tea bags, no. Loose tea.
Tapioca? No.

I make things like chicken curry, okonomiyaki, shakshuka, lots of salads with simple home made dressing of lemon, OOV, and dijon,.

I've seen coupons before and they are for absolute traditional american garbage diets. Like food for assembling casseroles with an egg noodles base.

Is there a tie-up in the parking lot at Costco for your high horse?

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$275/week in the grocery store, $69/week for two blue apron family meals, and we eat out usually twice a weekend. I pack all of the kids lunches every day. Family of 5

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Anonymous wrote:Between $800-$1000 for family of 4. It has gone up as my boys get older.

This is so true. My active and growing teen boys are always hungry. I can't believe their metabolism. I can't keep protein in the house. Rotisserie chicken is now a favorite along with tons of fruit. They drink a gallon of organic 1% milk almost every other day. The grocery list keeps growing.