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I am sort of copying Tam and showing you a picture of my groceries for the week. I am not, however, doing any of Tam's lovely analysis of calories, price per day, or servings per food group, even though I would kind of like to see those numbers. I can tell you I spent $34.37 for what is shown.
(I swear there are only two packages of cheese; it looks a lot like four packages of cheese.)
This is somewhat misleading because I did not buy the hamburger that goes with the other ingredients for taco soup and for spaghetti (that would be about $6 more?) or the peanut butter and pumpkin butter that goes with the bread or the cocoa and sugar that goes with the milk. On the other hand, I don't always get this much produce. Nor have I used yeast in years (I'm hoping "bread machine yeast" is the same as regular yeast used for making bread).
My favorite buy was the dried basil, bought in bulk, which comes to $0.11. I probably needed $0.13 worth to completely fill my spice jar. The canned goods and grape juice are also cheap and the blueberries are in season (i.e., relatively cheap). I paid extra for hormone-free milk, very sharp cheddar, free-range eggs, and fiber-filled bread.
I also pay extra for most of the things I mentioned that I'm already stocked up on (hamburger to have a low fat content, peanut butter to have no added anything but salt and sometimes to have it in an (easily recycled) glass jar, cocoa to have it grown using some method other than slash-and-burn, and sugar to be somewhat less processed than usual). I spend less on pumpkin butter now that I make it myself.
None of this was on sale. Nor did I use any coupons.
(I swear there are only two packages of cheese; it looks a lot like four packages of cheese.)
This is somewhat misleading because I did not buy the hamburger that goes with the other ingredients for taco soup and for spaghetti (that would be about $6 more?) or the peanut butter and pumpkin butter that goes with the bread or the cocoa and sugar that goes with the milk. On the other hand, I don't always get this much produce. Nor have I used yeast in years (I'm hoping "bread machine yeast" is the same as regular yeast used for making bread).
My favorite buy was the dried basil, bought in bulk, which comes to $0.11. I probably needed $0.13 worth to completely fill my spice jar. The canned goods and grape juice are also cheap and the blueberries are in season (i.e., relatively cheap). I paid extra for hormone-free milk, very sharp cheddar, free-range eggs, and fiber-filled bread.
I also pay extra for most of the things I mentioned that I'm already stocked up on (hamburger to have a low fat content, peanut butter to have no added anything but salt and sometimes to have it in an (easily recycled) glass jar, cocoa to have it grown using some method other than slash-and-burn, and sugar to be somewhat less processed than usual). I spend less on pumpkin butter now that I make it myself.
None of this was on sale. Nor did I use any coupons.