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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This will likely sound ridiculous, but our family of 3 (2 adults + 1 teen) spends $150 per MONTH on groceries and our HHI is 700K. Caveats: teen’s weekday lunches are enfolded into private school tuition, 1 adult has lunch and/or dinner provided through work 2 or 3 days per week, and we’re kind of insane super shoppers.[/quote]

That’s amazing! Please post your grocery list & things you make! I’m curious. I couldn’t do this bc I like variety and occasional meat, organic eggs and milk BUT I do admire the thriftiness. [/quote]

Staples, including eggs and milk, from Costco. Fresh produce from ethnic markets. Whatever meat is on sale that week at the traditional grocery stores (we’ll freeze extra so we have variety and aren’t just eating one type of protein all week). We take full advantage of freebies and almost freebies - for example, we just picked up 3 bottles of organic Kefir cultured milk for free and 3 cans of Pringles for $1 - as well as deals like “get $40 off your pickup order of $75.” We don’t deprive ourselves and would have no problem spending more if necessary, but actually find bargain hunting super fun.[/quote]

Post a couple days of your menu.

And your teen must not eat much or do any sports—my teens probably eat more than $150/month each of food on top of the 3 meals a day-[/quote]

Sure! Here’s this weekend’s menu:

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only)
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only)
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi

Teen, who actually does play sports, supplements with snacks like nuts, cheese and crackers, fruit, chips, etc., but definitely should be eating more.[/quote]

This sounds disgusting. I do IF and don't eat much, but when I do, I eat good food. No wonder Americans are so overweight and sick. [/quote]
What’s “disgusting” about this menu? Taiwanese beef noodle soup is delicious![/quote]

Aw, thanks for defending Taiwanese beef noodle soup, PP! For anyone who thinks I wrote the above post as a sock puppet, please feel free to check with Jeff! To the other PP who thinks so poorly of our weekend menu, we had sushi Friday night (dining out therefore not included in my $150/month grocery budget) so didn’t feel like having fish again these past two days, and tomorrow is Meatless Monday so we’ll be having lots of veggies and leafy greens then. Oh, and you’re definitely right the adults should include more dietary calcium and probiotics, but teen’s organic kefir cultured milk (that I got for free through extreme couponing) was rich in both.[/quote]

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