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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - I appreciate everyone's feed back and I totally agree I am totally over spending and wasting so much food and $. I have 3 very little kids .. one 1 year old and 2 5 year olds .. they literally eat toast and cream cheese and fruit ... and somehow we blow through $300 a week and then throw food away every week. I think also the problem is my husband and I both randomly pop to the grocery store.. like 3 times a week and don't even know what the other got. I am going to start by cutting this out, only go one time a week if we didn't get something we can manage for 6 days till the next time we go etc. Thanks very much for all the advice. [/quote]

We recently started using a grocery delivery service (Peapod). It has really helped us to budget and actually have a plan for what we are buying. It's amazing what we were buying in the store (especially if the kid was WITH us asking for random stuff) that we had no plan for and that would usually just end up going to waste (or unnecessarily to our waistlines!). You can get free delivery for like 60 days if you sign up for Peapod (or comparable services). It's worth doing if you can, just to see what you are actually buying and limiting your trips to the store.  It has definitely been a worthy exercise in our experience! Good luck. [/quote]

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