Grocery Budget

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Anonymous wrote:OP back...Thanks and thanks some more. Many people are helping us justify our budget but learning a lot from those with smaller budgets. Yeah, I think the whole thing boils down to the amount of food we eat and we buy organic I guess. We shop at Costco as much as possible, Aldi, and then Giant for everything else. But we are closer to the lacrosse playing family. I guess. Our boys are hungry a lot. I go to Costco twice a month usually and spend $300+ a pop. Standard in the shopping list is...organic ground turkey, organic chicken legs, breast, and thighs. three pack of cukes, 5lbs Halos, 5 pack of avocados, package or organic blueberries, organic raspberries, sliced mango, package of asparagus, package of broccoli, package of Brussels spouts, organic baby carrots, package of mushrooms; organic Romaine, box of 3 1/2 gallons of 1% organic milk, bag of Purdue breaded chicken patties and/or chicken breasts; 3 double dozen packages of free range eggs (6 dozen total); The above is basically what I get every 2 weeks. But probably once a month I grab a package of 6 cans of black olives, black beans, canned soup, cantaloupe/watermelon, tomato sauce, package of boxes of pasta, black berries, chicken stock, big box of cheez its, cheese sticks, But I also get napkins, paper plates, TP, paper towels, soap, all that stuff here as well when needed. Thinking back to the people who spend a lot less...if we put a bowl of lentil soup on the dinner table, there would be mutiny! even though we ALL love lentil soup. My kids often ask for a bowl of lentil soup AFTER they eat dinner. I'm glad we all like lentil soup because that is often on sale for $1 a can. Another example of eating is that we went to BK on Sunday and brought home and extra Whopper. Monday after school my son comes home from school and ate the Whopper as part of his after school snack! I guess $1,100 for everything per month is decent considering we down pull apart food vs everything else you get at grocery stores.

Its all the organic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP back...Thanks and thanks some more. Many people are helping us justify our budget but learning a lot from those with smaller budgets. Yeah, I think the whole thing boils down to the amount of food we eat and we buy organic I guess. We shop at Costco as much as possible, Aldi, and then Giant for everything else. But we are closer to the lacrosse playing family. I guess. Our boys are hungry a lot. I go to Costco twice a month usually and spend $300+ a pop. Standard in the shopping list is...organic ground turkey, organic chicken legs, breast, and thighs. three pack of cukes, 5lbs Halos, 5 pack of avocados, package or organic blueberries, organic raspberries, sliced mango, package of asparagus, package of broccoli, package of Brussels spouts, organic baby carrots, package of mushrooms; organic Romaine, box of 3 1/2 gallons of 1% organic milk, bag of Purdue breaded chicken patties and/or chicken breasts; 3 double dozen packages of free range eggs (6 dozen total); The above is basically what I get every 2 weeks. But probably once a month I grab a package of 6 cans of black olives, black beans, canned soup, cantaloupe/watermelon, tomato sauce, package of boxes of pasta, black berries, chicken stock, big box of cheez its, cheese sticks, But I also get napkins, paper plates, TP, paper towels, soap, all that stuff here as well when needed. Thinking back to the people who spend a lot less...if we put a bowl of lentil soup on the dinner table, there would be mutiny! even though we ALL love lentil soup. My kids often ask for a bowl of lentil soup AFTER they eat dinner. I'm glad we all like lentil soup because that is often on sale for $1 a can. Another example of eating is that we went to BK on Sunday and brought home and extra Whopper. Monday after school my son comes home from school and ate the Whopper as part of his after school snack! I guess $1,100 for everything per month is decent considering we down pull apart food vs everything else you get at grocery stores.

Its all the organic.

Most people shopping like this aren't trying to get their bill down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP back...Thanks and thanks some more. Many people are helping us justify our budget but learning a lot from those with smaller budgets. Yeah, I think the whole thing boils down to the amount of food we eat and we buy organic I guess. We shop at Costco as much as possible, Aldi, and then Giant for everything else. But we are closer to the lacrosse playing family. I guess. Our boys are hungry a lot. I go to Costco twice a month usually and spend $300+ a pop. Standard in the shopping list is...organic ground turkey, organic chicken legs, breast, and thighs. three pack of cukes, 5lbs Halos, 5 pack of avocados, package or organic blueberries, organic raspberries, sliced mango, package of asparagus, package of broccoli, package of Brussels spouts, organic baby carrots, package of mushrooms; organic Romaine, box of 3 1/2 gallons of 1% organic milk, bag of Purdue breaded chicken patties and/or chicken breasts; 3 double dozen packages of free range eggs (6 dozen total); The above is basically what I get every 2 weeks. But probably once a month I grab a package of 6 cans of black olives, black beans, canned soup, cantaloupe/watermelon, tomato sauce, package of boxes of pasta, black berries, chicken stock, big box of cheez its, cheese sticks, But I also get napkins, paper plates, TP, paper towels, soap, all that stuff here as well when needed. Thinking back to the people who spend a lot less...if we put a bowl of lentil soup on the dinner table, there would be mutiny! even though we ALL love lentil soup. My kids often ask for a bowl of lentil soup AFTER they eat dinner. I'm glad we all like lentil soup because that is often on sale for $1 a can. Another example of eating is that we went to BK on Sunday and brought home and extra Whopper. Monday after school my son comes home from school and ate the Whopper as part of his after school snack! I guess $1,100 for everything per month is decent considering we down pull apart food vs everything else you get at grocery stores.

Its all the organic.

Most people shopping like this aren't trying to get their bill down.

I don't think that's true at all. There are a lot of people, me included, that what to keep the cost down as low as possible while still buying organic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Today we got half a baby cow for $700, processed and very clean, all wrapped and frozen. It filled our upright freezer to the top and packed our inside freezer on 3 shelves. Last November we paid a processing fee of $100 and got a whole deer free. You cannot get more organic than that. Lean meat fed well without any antibiotics or filthy contamination.

Add bulk shop pantry and paper items, canned goods. In the summer we stock up on farm vegetables and fruit. We will need another upright freezer so I can freeze bread and cooked food we cook on the weekends.

We spend less for a year or more of food than what some of you spend in a month.

My family has stopped eating any venison at all, and I'd advise you to, as well. Over 80% of cultivated deer are infected with CWD, and the numbers are very high for wild deer as well. This is the same family of prion diseases as Mad Cow. Although there's not yet any evidence of cross-species infection with CWD, the latency period is so long that it could be years before we find out. In other words, it may be as "organic" as you can get, but that doesn't mean it's without "filthy contamination."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/16/health/deer-chronic-wasting-disease/index.html

Yup. I used to know a deer farmer down in the Shenandoah Valley. She had to kill her entire herd. Scary stuff that CWD is.