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!

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Sunday

Dear Readers,

It is 7 am on a beautiful Sunday morning and I am trying to hurry up the pancake process so that I can go outside and pick up the morning paper from our driveway.  I don't know if it is the exhilaration of sprinting into the crisp outside dressed in a bathrobe or the thrill to see what is on sale this week, but I love these mornings.  How delightful it is to sit with my cup of tea and inserts, while everyone eats pancakes.

Last week I held out on buying eggs as long as I could.  My husband's omlets dwindled in size from three to one (with lots of vegetables) as our stock of eggs went down.  Target's dozens were around $2.83 and Price Chopper's $2.89.  I had used my last $1 off eggs coupons at Stop and Shop, where it came out to $1.12 with a coupon.  So, I succumbed to shopping at Aldi's, my least favorite store.  Buying 6 dozen there at $1.09 saved me at least ten dollars.  But just watch them be on sale somewhere else this week...

Hope you have fun pre-shopping and menu planning on this beautiful Sunday morning!

Yours truly,
Dilara
Posted by Dilara Channing at 4:59 AM

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