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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh my, OP here, yes that's a typo, I mean $200 a week, would like to trim to $100 a week.  Also, I spent some time online today comparing Wegmans "regular" prices (they don't seem to do a weekly flyer) to Giant's regular and sale prices.  (I usually shop at Giant.)  For all my regular weekly items (organic milk, Fage, Sabra hummus, wheat thins, etc.)  Wegmans was cheaper every single time.  And a quick check on meat prices, even against Giant's sale prices, Wegmans was still cheaper.  It's about a 25 minute drive, but perhaps it's worth it, at least 2 times a month to stock up.  Thanks for all the idea![/quote]

I spend $100-125/week. Family of 2 adults, 1 child, 2 cats. That number includes cat food and litter. It does not include DD's school lunch, which is about $85/month.

We eat almost exclusively vegetarian at home. DD and I are not fish-eaters, but DH is. He will get tilapia or salmon if it's on sale - buys 2, freezes 1. For a while we were going to H Mart and he was getting his seafood fix there. Was also a cheap source of produce. However, the quality of the produce was a little dicey - things would go off a lot faster than they would from Giant or HT. I also found that it was a lot easier to stick to my budget if we only went to one store.

I plan 6 meals for the week. They are not restricted to particular days and sometimes they overlap (same pot of black beans can be used for tacos as is used for soup, tomato sauce can be used in various ways, etc.). I have a few things available for breakfasts. I only buy things I know that we're going to eat.

I also indulge in Wheat Thins, but I recognize that buying a big box of them adds $5 to a bill. If you're trying to reduce your weekly bill, cutting a lot of "nice to have" $5 items like Wheat Thins or making your own (like hummus, which you can make for about $2/cup with a food processor) will reduce it by that much. As one PP pointed out, not buying meat (even on sale) helps keep expenses down. Buying things like black beans, red beans, etc. dry rather than canned helps. Buying blocks of generic cheese and then grating them is often cheaper than buying pre-shredded cheese.

In the winter, we eat a lot of soup. Vegetable soup. Bean soup. Tomato soup. Butternut squash soup. In the summer when there are cheap fresh vegetables, we eat a lot of those. Roasted. Grilled. Raw. Salads (sometimes yes, the dreaded tacky pasta salad!). [/quote]

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