And the results are….
As you may recall I gave myself a food challenge in October;
to spend $200 or less in groceries for a family of four (six people every other weekend). The results are not great, I didn’t hit my goal. Boo!!!
Final Grocery Tally: $219
Darn milk & bread… I found out how much we really
consume of these two items! It’s insane!! We go through three gallons or milk
per week! That’s over $10 per week in just milk! After my “big” stock up
shopping I was only left with $25/week for the rest of the month. You take out
just the milk and $15 isn’t much to work with.
As for bread products…we usually go through one loaf a week
plus 2 packs of buns. The only reason for this is that Jason is in the field
right now & sandwiches are the easiest thing for him to eat while driving.
And he refuses to eat a sandwich on bread. Not sure why, but it must be a bun!
It is the same price to buy a whole loaf as it is to buy one pack of buns. So
we were spending over $5/week on bread! Leaving me with only $10/week for
everything else.
It took a lot of planning ahead to make this work but we did
it! And we still have food in the cupboards and freezer. We still have chicken
and pork roast in the freezer that I made up during a big cooking day that is ready
to be thawed and made in to dinner for November.
I guess overall it wasn’t a complete fail.
$219 on groceries
Divided out by 31 days = $7.0645/ day on groceries
Divided out by 4 people in the house = $1.766 per person per
day
Divided out by 3 meals = $0.5887 per meal
I know I could be cheaper than this but I don’t want to
deprive my family of the things they like either. I am pretty happy with the
end results and will continue to watch our spending. Our normal monthly food
budget is $300 so if I can keep it below that in the future, I will be happy!
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