1. Set a budget: Then try to come in under budget. For example, James and I budget $500/month for food ($125/week); however, we try to shoot for $100/week.
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| Today's Final Grochery Bill- Not too shabby!! |
2. Create a weekly food plan: Plan each meal: breakfast, lunch, dinner (and don’t forget snacks)!
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| 05/10/2010-Strout's Weekly food plan! |
3. Write a grocery list: If it’s not on the list, it doesn’t go in the cart!
4. Shop the perimeter: The outside perimeter contains most of the superfoods you need for a high-energy, productive week!
5. Check unit price:
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| 4.68/unit price??WOW that's a little STEEP! |
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| $2.99/unit price!!! YAY-MUCH BETTER! |
6. Double check your list: the goal is to purchase all of your food in one trip. Why? This method saves money, time, and your waist line!
7. Do not waste food: Why? The average credit card debt per house hold in the US is $16,000; we live in the worst recession since the Great Depression; 15 million children die of hunger every year; 1 out of 8 children under the age of 12 in the U.S goes to bed hungry every night; 1.02 billion people across the world are hungry……get the point?
8. Eat! Yummmm….healthy food keeps us active, young, strong, and happy (especially when we didn’t break the bank buying it!)
Great post. Me and Derek probably raked those Wymans blueberries so I would have given those ones the thumbs up instead, but I bet it would be interesting to know how far they had to travel to get into the grocery store. They were probably raked in good ole Cherryfield, packaged there, rest in the freezer there for months (at least) then shipped to a distribution center in NJ or something where they sit again for months, then sent back to ME to a grocery store when needed. Weird to imagine a foods travels.
ReplyDeleteSTEVE!!! This is an excellent point; I will search the back of the Wyman's package next Sunday- if they are from Maine, I will buy them!! Thanks for changing my perspective! I did ditch some spinach that came from China!!
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