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.

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: Yes, but the kind of flour I buy is either the same price across the board (King Arthur) or specialty flours like spelt, almond, einkorn etc. I'm not buying 5 pound bags of Walmart brand flour with zero nutritional value, sorry.

Graham Crackers: The store bought kind are basically cookies. We make them homemade. Taste better and healthier.

Chocolate Chips: Yes, Lily's or specialty brands that are low sugar. Again, not something you would typically find in the aisles of your average grocery store.

Sour cream, cream cheese, all dairy and eggs are delivered weekly from a local farm.

Raisins, egg noodles, no and no. Tapioca? WTF? How random. And no.

I bake bread every week, thus I buy my yeast in bulk. I seriously cannot think of a single food that is worth the effort of combing through dirty coupon pages every week with the hopes of saving .35 cents off of that item. If buying a lot of canned and processed junk works for you and your family, then fine, but don't assume we're all eating and cooking that way.

To the original question, we spend about $200-$300 per week on food, family of four, depending on how often we decide to eat out and if our oldest is home from college.

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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.

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?

No need to feel insecure. However there are plenty of Americans who simply do not ascribe to the traditional American diet of food out of a can or bag. That's what coupons will buy you. It's not the way our family eats.

Go to coupons.walmart.com. there is ONE ONE only single fresh item on their clip list. Perdue chicken thighs. The rest is: apple [e-mail], Campbell's condensed soup, Bonus Evans "side dishes", frosted flakes, hungry Jack powdered potatoes, kraft singles, Pillsbury baked goods in a pop can, Velveeta cheese, and M&Ms.

Whrn I look st my grocery cart it is probably 60% fresh produce, 20% meat, and 20% Dairy/granola/nuts/oats/dried beans/rice.

Families like mine have no use for the items that coupons will help me save on. I save much more because I don't buy any of that garbage.

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NP, but the PP pointing out that your post was obnoxious is not displaying insecurity; I think she was trying to do you a favor.

I eat "clean" and use coupons. Can they apply to the majority of my cart? No. But butter, yogurt, cheese, often times meat, dried beans, oats, granola, nuts, and all kinds of household goods that get rolled into a "grocery bill" (household cleaners, paper goods, trash bags) all have occasional coupons. Everyone is super proud of you that you're not a "typical American," but trying to dress your class snobbery up with a bow about how healthy you are is ugly. Your posts are rude.

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Anonymous wrote:NP, but the PP pointing out that your post was obnoxious is not displaying insecurity; I think she was trying to do you a favor.

I eat "clean" and use coupons. Can they apply to the majority of my cart? No. But butter, yogurt, cheese, often times meat, dried beans, oats, granola, nuts, and all kinds of household goods that get rolled into a "grocery bill" (household cleaners, paper goods, trash bags) all have occasional coupons. Everyone is super proud of you that you're not a "typical American," but trying to dress your class snobbery up with a bow about how healthy you are is ugly. Your posts are rude.

Donr br sad too. Its ok.

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Anonymous wrote:NP, but the PP pointing out that your post was obnoxious is not displaying insecurity; I think she was trying to do you a favor.

I eat "clean" and use coupons. Can they apply to the majority of my cart? No. But butter, yogurt, cheese, often times meat, dried beans, oats, granola, nuts, and all kinds of household goods that get rolled into a "grocery bill" (household cleaners, paper goods, trash bags) all have occasional coupons. Everyone is super proud of you that you're not a "typical American," but trying to dress your class snobbery up with a bow about how healthy you are is ugly. Your posts are rude.

Oh hush, this is the DCUM way, you're just pissed off that you are in the position of being judged for your choices.

DCUM is weird. You all boast about how superior you are to "flyover" country because you don't drive and live in walkable areas, but you are walking to restaurants and cafes and coffee shops and throwing slop on the table for your families because you're all too tired to cook.

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I have no idea but I have a feeling it is over $1000 for family of 5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP, but the PP pointing out that your post was obnoxious is not displaying insecurity; I think she was trying to do you a favor.

I eat "clean" and use coupons. Can they apply to the majority of my cart? No. But butter, yogurt, cheese, often times meat, dried beans, oats, granola, nuts, and all kinds of household goods that get rolled into a "grocery bill" (household cleaners, paper goods, trash bags) all have occasional coupons. Everyone is super proud of you that you're not a "typical American," but trying to dress your class snobbery up with a bow about how healthy you are is ugly. Your posts are rude.

+1
We should nominate that poster for DCUM sainthood.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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: Yes, but the kind of flour I buy is either the same price across the board (King Arthur) or specialty flours like spelt, almond, einkorn etc. I'm not buying 5 pound bags of Walmart brand flour with zero nutritional value, sorry.

Graham Crackers: The store bought kind are basically cookies. We make them homemade. Taste better and healthier.

Chocolate Chips: Yes, Lily's or specialty brands that are low sugar. Again, not something you would typically find in the aisles of your average grocery store.

Sour cream, cream cheese, all dairy and eggs are delivered weekly from a local farm.

Raisins, egg noodles, no and no. Tapioca? WTF? How random. And no.

I bake bread every week, thus I buy my yeast in bulk. I seriously cannot think of a single food that is worth the effort of combing through dirty coupon pages every week with the hopes of saving .35 cents off of that item. If buying a lot of canned and processed junk works for you and your family, then fine, but don't assume we're all eating and cooking that way.

To the original question, we spend about $200-$300 per week on food, family of four, depending on how often we decide to eat out and if our oldest is home from college.

I was listing common baking/cooking ingredients that most people don't make themselves (e.g. Tapioca is a thickener for pies and gravies) even if they "cook from scratch," and there are coupons for all of these things in the Sunday paper. I buy King Arthur flour with a coupon when it's on sale and get it super cheap, which is great since I keep all purpose, bread, and cake flour on hand. That kind of thing helps with the grocery bill and it takes 1 minute to flip through the flier in the paper, but I guess that's....what did PP say?... too *dirty* for some people.

As always, I just love it on DCUM when rich women come on and flaunt their wealth. So classy.

[Anonymous]

Laundry detergent usually has coupons as well, sometimes in store and on paper.

[Anonymous]

1000 4 people, 2 teen boys (doctor recommends 4000 for the oldest, 3000 for the youngest

Plus Target.. 250/month

Plus chipotle once a week
Plus we order in on saturday

Plus a CSA that was 250 for 5 shares

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

NP- Family of, 4 infant and toddler. I buy flour maybe once every 2 years. No to graham crackers (maybe one day), chocolate chips, around holidays maybe but not in general to have on hand. SC on sale- 4/5 times a year, spices are a splurge at Penzys, but maybe $20 worth every other month. No yeast, tapioca, tea bags or raisins. I guess some peoples diets just vary. We don't buy much processed stuff and I think a lot of our meals are fantastic. But I confess, I love egg noodles but almost never use them.

[Anonymous]

My husband and I used to spend 1300 a month just the two of us pre-baby (that includes eating out, I lumped them together in the budget). We just upgrading housing and decided to cut back to $750 in groceries for us and our 9MO. It's been a bit of a struggle... but I think that has more to do with the steady stream of company we have been hosting. $750 seems fair under normal circumstances, but it has taken some shrewdness in shopping/planning.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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: Yes, but the kind of flour I buy is either the same price across the board (King Arthur) or specialty flours like spelt, almond, einkorn etc. I'm not buying 5 pound bags of Walmart brand flour with zero nutritional value, sorry.

Graham Crackers: The store bought kind are basically cookies. We make them homemade. Taste better and healthier.

Chocolate Chips: Yes, Lily's or specialty brands that are low sugar. Again, not something you would typically find in the aisles of your average grocery store.

Sour cream, cream cheese, all dairy and eggs are delivered weekly from a local farm.

Raisins, egg noodles, no and no. Tapioca? WTF? How random. And no.

I bake bread every week, thus I buy my yeast in bulk. I seriously cannot think of a single food that is worth the effort of combing through dirty coupon pages every week with the hopes of saving .35 cents off of that item. If buying a lot of canned and processed junk works for you and your family, then fine, but don't assume we're all eating and cooking that way.

To the original question, we spend about $200-$300 per week on food, family of four, depending on how often we decide to eat out and if our oldest is home from college.

apparently you also have a lot of time on your hands. what local farm delivers dairy??

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apparently you also have a lot of time on your hands. what local farm delivers dairy??

Why do I have a lot of time on my hands? Because I make a loaf of bread every week? I've had the same breadmaker for 17 years and I actually use it, it takes five minutes to put in all of the ingredients and push the button. Graham crackers takes about the same amount of time as making shortbread cookies, and it makes your home smell amazing. Sorry PP 21:58, but we are not rich and have no wealth, we do the best we can like everyone else and prioritize certain things. Just like you.

We have dairy delivered from a farm in MD called South Mountain Creamery.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

No need to feel insecure. However there are plenty of Americans who simply do not ascribe to the traditional American diet of food out of a can or bag. That's what coupons will buy you. It's not the way our family eats.

Go to coupons.walmart.com. there is ONE ONE only single fresh item on their clip list. Perdue chicken thighs. The rest is: apple [e-mail], Campbell's condensed soup, Bonus Evans "side dishes", frosted flakes, hungry Jack powdered potatoes, kraft singles, Pillsbury baked goods in a pop can, Velveeta cheese, and M&Ms.

Whrn I look st my grocery cart it is probably 60% fresh produce, 20% meat, and 20% Dairy/granola/nuts/oats/dried beans/rice.

Families like mine have no use for the items that coupons will help me save on. I save much more because I don't buy any of that garbage.

But my kids love apple [e-mail]. It's a special treat.