Shopping Bill

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  • luckydays27
    luckydays27 Posts: 552 Member
    Grocery bill up, restaurant bill down. Shrugs.

    This is my house as well. In the end it balances.
  • audaleee
    audaleee Posts: 3
    Same situation as many others: groceries up, additional spending is down. I used to grab a Wasabi or EAT soup for lunch and now I'm sticking to the salad in my canteen. The £4 I save every lunch time goes towards eating healthier at home. I've cut down my restaurant spend since coming out of a relationship too :laugh:
  • linsey0689
    linsey0689 Posts: 753 Member
    Yes healthy stuff is most costly but i do eat less. But I agree it kind of sticks that food is so much money :(
  • Shoechick5
    Shoechick5 Posts: 221 Member
    I don't think ours has really changed that much. I'm a pretty good cook so we never bought pre-packaged garbage in the first place. Sure Halibut and Salmon is more expensive than hamburger meat but that's not what I was cooking with in the first place. Fruits can be expensive when not in season but if you stick to seasonal stuff you can do very well. Whats really saving me money is no trips for Lattes, muffins, lunches out. That by far make my monthly spend less.
  • salemnye
    salemnye Posts: 305 Member
    I cook for me and my roommate. I think we spend about $80 (60 Euros) a month for the 2 of us. You have to shop around. Frozen veggies are just as healthy (well depending how you cook them) fresh.

    Look for sales and stock up and freeze if you can. Like I saw plain greek yogurt on sale and I needed it for a tuna salad I was going to make so I bought it a month in advance and froze it and it looked/tasted just fine.

    Eggs are super cheap. 12 of them are like $1.50-$2.00. That's 12 breakfasts for only $2 (at most). Think creatively. What can you do with the things you have available to you? Look through your cupboards and see what you can scrounge together. Beans are quite filling so look for some bean meals and you can get the dry stuff or canned and they do go pretty far and delicious :)

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