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Originally Posted by Nikki Sixx
How do you people do it? We are a family of 2 adults and 2 teenagers. We eat healthy we all are very active with sports and the gym...so we watch what we eat. On average we spend at least 1100 per month at the grocery store and I consider that doing good.
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Ouch. $1100? Thats more than our mortgage! Really, its easy.
Do you buy junk food?? We buy no soda, chips...... (We do like to make our own potato chips though, by slicing and frying potatoes). We eat a lot of popcorn (bulk purchased) and popped in an old fashioned popper, not microwaved.
We cook from scratch. To me, cooking from scratch means boiling & mashing my own potatoes--not using a box of instant potatoes. We do not buy parepared foods. Oatmeal in our house is in a big round can, not individual microwave bags.
We do not normally buy name brand.
We bake our own bread--sometimes from scratch, sometimes the Always Save frozen loaves of dough (5 for $2.98). Just one loaf of bread at our grocery store is over $3. That saves us a HUGE amount each month.
I do not buy cleaners and paper products at the grocery store. You pay higher prices and why put them on your food bill when they are not food?