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Today 900.00 Canadian = 855.26 USA
We do not budget, but I just tallied up that we spent $449 on groceries for 3 people last month. We generally do not buy cleaning items, personal care or cosmetic items at the grocery. Individually our food items may be very cheap, moderately priced, or even expensive. I'd say in the last couple years we buy a lot more expensive items than we used to. We shop at two very low price groceries where they usually have no brand names; at the biggest chain grocery in the area which has many, many choices, but run of the mill prices; at an import grocery which has superb prices, especially on bulk items like lentils, rice, nuts, all kinds of grains; and at a store which calls itself a farmers' market, but really is not--we get great produce prices there when we buy in bulk on whatever fruit and vegetables are th4e current special. We usually have to freeze portions of the vegs, lest they spoil before we get to them. We also shop at an ethnic grocery in our neighborhood and spend, relatively, a lot of money for some things, but the quality is unbeatable.
We also have a garden and get vegetables from it, and some fruit most years, but not this year. That makes our summer produce spending lower, but not much lower at all the rest of the year, as we usually do not have enough to can or preserve. WE might have enough sweet potatoes under the ground this year to live off of exclusively for a month, though.
We also buy wine, not counted in to the above because we apparently were still using what we had stocked up on from Costco from a previous month. I think we had lunch out about six times, just two of us, not the three. That would have been fast food. I don't think we went to a real restaurant last month.
But that is not counted into the groceries, either.
We do not budget, but I just tallied up that we spent $449 on groceries for 3 people last month. We generally do not buy cleaning items, personal care or cosmetic items at the grocery. Individually our food items may be very cheap, moderately priced, or even expensive. I'd say in the last couple years we buy a lot more expensive items than we used to. We shop at two very low price groceries where they usually have no brand names; at the biggest chain grocery in the area which has many, many choices, but run of the mill prices; at an import grocery which has superb prices, especially on bulk items like lentils, rice, nuts, all kinds of grains; and at a store which calls itself a farmers' market, but really is not--we get great produce prices there when we buy in bulk on whatever fruit and vegetables are th4e current special. We usually have to freeze portions of the vegs, lest they spoil before we get to them. We also shop at an ethnic grocery in our neighborhood and spend, relatively, a lot of money for some things, but the quality is unbeatable.
We also have a garden and get vegetables from it, and some fruit most years, but not this year. That makes our summer produce spending lower, but not much lower at all the rest of the year, as we usually do not have enough to can or preserve. WE might have enough sweet potatoes under the ground this year to live off of exclusively for a month, though.
We also buy wine, not counted in to the above because we apparently were still using what we had stocked up on from Costco from a previous month. I think we had lunch out about six times, just two of us, not the three. That would have been fast food. I don't think we went to a real restaurant last month.
But that is not counted into the groceries, either.
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