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Originally Posted by aukxsona
This is about what we need per month,
19 lbs oatmeal
24 lbs rice
some frozen vegs for stir fry
tomato sauce
20 lbs potatoes
1/2 gallon olive oil (can't use peanut)
12 lbs fresh fruit
12 lbs fresh veg
1 box powdered milk
1 box tea
20 lbs sugar
3 lb sausage
5 lbs real butter
24 lbs dry beans (any type)
1 canister of salt
1 canister of thyme, dill, rosemary
2 lbs popcorn
2 loaves bread (25 cents each- husband works for bakery)
I can't let go of the tea or coffee, I would go nuts. Everyone has to have their vice I suppose. The sausage is my husbands thing...him and the kids. Any ideas?
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Isn't Olive Oil like 3 to 4 times the cost of other vegetable oils? I know it has taste, where most vegetable oils have no taste.... but it's always been more expensive.
Other than that I agree with the others, feeding a family of 7 is going to be very hard on the food budget, especially since food prices keep rising.
Maybe another option is to grow garlic and use that exclusively to spice up your foods. Not a lot is needed, and home grown garlic is healtyh for all.