Grocery shopping

I am a bargain Shopper! I have learned what is cheaper where and I go to certain places to buy certain items. Like for instance I know that the commissary has cheaper meat and cheese so I buy all my meat and cheese there, But Foodlion has cheaper raviolli (my Brother-In-Law eats it like it is going out of style) so I go there for it. Plus I go to Biglots to see what they have that I need. For the three of us I spend about 150 every 2 weeks. This time we ordered from the Angel food ministeries.

YES, Cupcake!!! I was the other day at Kroger when the Sugar Free Hot Cocoa was $1 more than the fattening stuff!:explode:

we live 2 hours out of town, so we only buy groceries once a month (we pick up fresh milk at the gas station near us when we need it). I buy for my fiance and I and we spend about 230$ for 3-4 weeks worth of groceries... which I think is pretty good considering we live in the north and prices up hare are WAY higher. We shop at a grocery store called Extra Foods.:flowerforyou:

Because my son can't have wheat or dairy I have to go to specialty stores to get some things for him. I shop at Walmart for all the dry goods, etc, but I also go to Sprouts (large farmer's market type place). If I don't make the long drive out to Sprouts, then I have to go to a place to get meat, another place to get fruits and veggies(as I buy neither from Walmart) and another to get specialty foods for my son. Makes for an interesting day. :grumble: We easily spend $120-130 a week. My hubby's a big meat eater so that doesn't help either.

We're a family of 5. We spend between $80 to $150 (depending if I need cleaning supplies) a month on my big shopping trip where I stock up on things like cereal, soup, frozen veggies, mainly thing that will last. I get this stuff usually at Walmart because out here that's all we have, and that's an hour drive. I buy what ever cereal is on sale for $2.00 to $2.50 a box (3 boxes usually lasts all month bc we eat eggs most mornings), the only soup I get is soup that I use in cooking like tomato or crm mushroom (which are between .50 and 1.00 I stock up when they are on sale), frozen vegies are usually a buck a bag and I get about 15 bags of different ones. When I'm there I will usually get enough fresh fruits and veggies to last us the week.

Once a week (the weeks I don't go to walmart) I spend about $15 to $20 at the local grocery store. There I will get milk and some apples and bananas (fresh veggies there are usually not so great) and what ever else I may have ran out of.

We never buy meat at the store. We raise fresh chickens and eggs, and we buy beef from a friend of ours that raises them and have it processed at a locker plant we just got a quarter of beef for under $400, the hamburger is so lean you you don't have drain it after you brown it, and the T-bones just melt in your mouth. We get pork from a neighbor we usually split a hog with the guy we get our beef from. The hog usually runs $90 bucks and $100 to get it processed, so we get 1/2 of a hog in our freezer for $95 . That much beef and pork is usually enough to last us half a year. Yeah it's alot out of pocket at the time, but the quality is so much better and the taste is too. And it's nice to not have to buy it at the grocery store cause meat really adds to the bill.

We spend a lot. About 125 a week on groceries (give or take a little depending on what ends up in my cart). I'm kind of new to living with a man and not sure that I've learned how to save money at the grocery store yet. I try to shop sales and use coupons, but sometimes that actually ups the bill because then I am buying things I don't need!

Its just the two of us, but I don't seem to be able to cut down that number. Working on it though!

It depepends on the week and how much money we got. i can easily spend 120 anywhere if Im buying GOOD HEALTHY THINGS! I like food depots fruits and veggies and meats and I like krogers 10for10 but found out piggly wiggle has that to! We also go to Big lots for my hubbys energy drinks for .60cents in stead of 2.99 at the Gas station. I also get cereal, poptarts, chips, and such from biglots. So it just depends... We can spend from 60.00 on frozen not so good stuff adn up to 120 depending on what were getting. We got some ok stuff last night and spent 85.00. Which was good.

I have a family of four and was wondering how in the world you keep your bill 120 and under. Mine is currently around 170 on a good week. Do you have any tips?

There are some very interesting websites out there on how to eat for $25 a week or $30, ect, ect. Our food bill now averages $40 a week for 3 excluding formula, diapers and cat/dog food (roughly another $25-$30, lots of pets). The biggest help in reducing our food budget was writing down everything we spent for a few weeks and menu planning. I shop only the outside of the store, no junk food, processed food aisles and most everything is from scratch (hard in a busy world, but not if you spend one day on the weekend preparing or at least prepping for the week). We use everything too, brown bananas become banana bread, leftover odds and ends vegetables and beef become soup, a clean out the fridge night where we eat a very interesting combination of foods. I buy in bulk at Sam's Club, buy fresh vegetables at Bel Air (more expensive, but better quality) or at the farmers market and canned goods at Winco. Why pay 25-35% more at a fancier grocery store? Fresh non-processed food is actually cheaper if your are willing to do the work