Challenge: To trim down the grocery bills by at least 33%

According to the US Department of Labor, the average American family of four spends $8,513 per year on groceries. This statistic breaks down to $177 per person a month. My family is not the traditional nuclear family. In addition to me and my husband, we have four children -- three teenagers, a two-year-old, and a mother-in-law. Applying the above figures, our grocery bill for a family of seven should approximate to $1239 per month. And astonishingly, it has regularly fluctuated in the range of $1000- $1300. My goal is to trim this monthly pile of receipts down to $830,(including diapers, wipes, hygiene products, and restaurant bills) if not less. Being able to frugally feed my nutrition-conscious husband and appease the voracious appetites of my teenagers will be my main challenge!

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Saving a Whole Lot of Money

I have never done this before, but I just purchased a deal from Living Social at http://subscribe.livingsocial.com/?ref=affiliates&geo=true.

For $10 I can now go to Whole Foods and buy $20 worth of groceries.  Every little bit counts.
I plan on buying some nice organic strawberries and other fresh fruit so that my children can have, what else, a wholesome breakfast.
Posted by Dilara Channing at 8:44 AM

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