Budgeting for Groceries
February 15, 2007 3:07 pm Cost Cutters, Feeding the MassesHere’s a tip I use when food shopping. I learned it from another mom of many years ago. Calculate the cost per ounce of foods, and don’t spend more than ten cents per ounce. In addition to saving money, you’ll find that the foods you can buy for this amount are typically healthier than the pre-processed expensive stuff. I’ll admit that I don’t always follow this advice myself, but when I do, it saves me a bundle. And even when I don’t follow it exactly, I still try to keep the cost of our food to $2 per pound or less. That means that if we splurge on steak one night, we eat a meatless meal on another night.
Budgeting | Know A New Freedom :
Date: April 4, 2007 @ 10:05 am
[...] Today we do things differently in a lot of areas, including how we interact with money. I have a spreadsheet that lists all of the bills we have to pay each month and their due dates in a master list. Then I essentially copy that list into a two column format that lists our income at the top and subtracts out what each bill amount is, to give me a total for each payday. Using this method, I can decide when to pay all of our bills, how much money we’ll have left over each pay period in the near future, and make good planning decisions for our budget. [...]