Our family grocery budget is $50.00 per week, or as I look at it, $200.00 per month! One of the first things I looked at when deciding to make this change is can we afford it? The more I looked into products and checked my price book, it was easy to see that we can, but some of the changes we made to do this some might find a little drastic!
1. We only eat meat approximately 3 times per week. The other nights we have beans as a protein! I have found some wonderful recipes for meals using beans. Black Bean loaf, Black Bean Burgers, Hummus.. the list just goes on. I will post some recipes later on!
2. We joined an organic co-op that delivers, and most of their prices are lower then Whole Foods or Krogers.
3. I am only shopping once a month for the groceries from whole foods and getting all produce, fruits, eggs, cheese, bread and some meats weekly-by weekly from the co-op!
4. Whole Foods has coupons. They can be found in their books as you come in the door, in magazines, online, and they take manufacture coupons too! Whole Foods advertises on http://www.cincysavers.com/ where you can currently have a coupon good through September 30 for a free light bulb if you spend $30.00. They really do not have a coupon policy. I have also learned if you attend events at Whole Foods they give you a nice re-usable shopping bag filled with coupons!
This is our first month trying to follow this budget and so far I think I am doing pretty good. I attend a class last night at Whole Foods called shopping Naturally on a Budget! It was a tour through the store showing us the 365 Whole Foods brand products that are reasonably priced. I was very excited to find out that even if the product at Whole Foods doesn't have the Organic USDA stamp on it, the product was made using items with out pesticides, from a farmer probably in transition to organic!
I spent $81.00 at whole foods last night. Included in the $81.00 was 2 cases of Rice milk.. My family has decided to stop drinking milk and have very limited dairy. ( Do you know what is in the milk we drink? I do and no thanks!) I love Whole Foods bulk selection! I got plenty of beans for the month along with couscous, quina, and flour. I also got organic snacks for the kids and a treat for myself and Dan. I bought organic boneless skinless thighs on sale and have enough for 3 meals for us. I also bought the best hot chizo chicken sausage! It was really good cooked into scrambled eggs this morning!
The co-op this week will be approximately $55.00 with what we are thinking about getting, which will leave me with $64.00 to order with for our by-weekly box... and if I forgot anything at the grocery store!
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