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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How in the world do you spend $1500 per MONTH on groceries?

Do you feed an entire football team?

That is my [b]rent[b] each month. RENT. [/quote]

This isn’t about organic or fancy cuts of meat, this is us shopping at the grocery stores near us. We compared prices between Giant, Safeway, Moms, and Tj and they were all about the same. It’s when you go to further suburbs that prices drop, not when you pick the $1 tomato vs the $1.10 organic tomato. Also, things like Aldi, Lidl, Costco can help a LOT.

We go through a lot of fresh fruit, that’s expensive. Maybe to fruit baskets a week? 2 gallons of milk. 4 dozen eggs. 10 boxes of tofu. Then 3 heads of cauliflower, a box of spinach, romaine hearts, dozen tomatoes, box of cherry tomatoes, 2 boxes of celery, 2 loaves of French bread, 1 loaf of sliced bread. Two yogurts. That’s probably weekly staples. [/quote]
Well if you refuse to give anything up, then one of you has to earn more money. It’s basic math. [/quote]

My question was does that sound like outlandish grocery items, or just likely that the stores near us have higher prices?  I haven’t driven to Germantown to comparison shop yet, but that is my impression.  Or should we eat less fruit etc?[/quote]

Do you buy in season or do you buy the same fruits and veggies year round?

Have you tried H-Mart or LIDL?[/quote]

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