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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband is lazy and does grocery delivery and it is well over $1000/month for us and two little kids who don't eat much. WTH???[/quote]

Delivery actually tends to limit impulse purchases but the tradeoff is you cant replace for cheaper items or meat that is on sale/clearance and save money that way. Nor do you pick your own items like produce.

I track every penny we spend and it is difficult to keep it under 1000/mo for groceries (includes propane, paper towels, toilet paper, household supplies) for 2 adults plus 1 kid. We eat 95% of our meals at home. I have a variety of fruits and vegetables. For example, in our house right now, we have: 6 peppers, arugula, radishes, celery, lemons, limes, watermelon, strawberries, cherries, red grapes, one apple, bag of oranges (1 for pulled pork recipe and the other for fresh OJ), carrots, green onions, broccoli, peaches, blueberries, corn. Already finished bagged salad and some of the peppers. 
Anything that starts get too ripe gets frozen for smoothies.
 
I buy organic whole milk and pasture raised eggs. My DH wont eat less than 4 eggs when we have eggs in the morning so that gets expensive.

I also have to provide individually packaged snacks for 2 snacks a day for preschool because my son has issues with dairy and needs snacks if the school provided snack has dairy. That averages 40-70/mo. [/quote]

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