Saving Money on Groceries – Part 5

This is an update to the series I started almost two years ago.

I used to spend $200/4 weeks on family groceries and $25/week on summer produce (I saved this up year round.)
I now spend about $275/4 weeks on family groceries and $50/week on summer produce

That’s an increase of $100 every 4 weeks… and almost a 50% increase. What happened!!!

– update to the update – increased again! Now around $450/month for our family of six. Just keeping me humble!

• I have 4 kids now and they’re all a little bigger than they were 2 years ago.
• I have one kiddo who eats a separate diet… high in different, slightly more expensive ingredients. (not much, but enough that his meals cost more on average than the others.)
• I have begun purchasing almost only humanely raised meats. Organic is nice, but it’s secondary to me. Not being evil or awful to living creatures is more important to me. Locally raised or commercial but humane meats are significantly more expensive. We are eating less meat than before, but it still affects my budget.

So – to keep your grocery costs down, buy mainstream meats (or eat vegetarian), don’t make custom meals for anybody and tell your kids to stop growing. lol