Ok, I told you earlier that I'd read an article in Newsweek, Oct. 6th
issue, entitled
"Flowers from Uncle Sam." The author,
from Baltimore, stated that her family of four (2 adults, 2 kids)
wasw now exceeding $1,000 a month for groceries!
WHAT???
That means that each person was eating $3 per meal 3x a day.
As a stay-home-Mom it's my job to save money, and slashing the
grocery bills without killing the palate while still making
healthy choices makes for FUN and challenge!
I've been tracking our family's food budget for years, but in the
springtime of this year I decided to experiment by boycotting the
large, mega-mart grocery stores
(weekly sales ads & time-consuming coupon cutting)
in favor of
Aldi and
Save-a-Lot and an
occasional trip to the
amazing farmer's market.
GOOD CHOICE!
We have SEVEN in our family:
High Schooler,
Jr. Higher,
Elementary-aged,
Preschooler, Toddler
and Mom & Dad.
(and pretty often there's a friend or two at the table, also
but I didn't count that in my figures.)
Careful examination & calculations of my "Aldi Experiment"
have revealed that in our family,
seven people eat 3 daily meals for an average of...
dun, dun, dun...
$1 per meal!It's actually
even less than that because our weekly
grocery bill also includes diapers, pull-ups, most cleaning
supplies, laundry supplies and about 1/3 of our toiletries.
(but I didn't wanna figure all that out!)
"Thank You, Jesus, for helping us in the daily, ordinary
parts of our lives!"
In future blogs-entitled "Netta's Niche"- I'd love to share
my menus, recipes & ideas so that
you won't be blaming
Uncle Sam for your crazy-high grocery bills.
Here's a recipe that was used in ALL YOU Magazine
in September.
Taco Bowls
