My Last Grocery Bill Was $250

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Just got back from the store and nearly choked looking at the receipt $250. I didnt even buy anything fancy. No steaks, no booze, not even a splurge item unless you count name-brand cereal.

How is this normal now? Are groceries just officially luxury items? Im just feeding myself and somehow dropped a quarter of a grand like I was prepping for the apocalypse.

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Do you not see the screen on the register when you pay lol
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What used to cost me $60 is now atleast $90.
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Where do you shop?

How many people do you shop for?
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How long does that last you? Obviously prices at the grocery are up quite a bit, but bargain/smart shopping is still a thing.
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I got deodorant, white bread, pb&j, bologna and american cheese. Enough to fit in half of one bag.

It was about $45 lol. This shit is unbelievable.

Edit:

Deodorant was $9, white bread was $6, pb was $7, jelly was $5, bologna was $10, american cheese was $8.
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mystic_belmont posted...
Where do you shop?

How many people do you shop for?

TC said it's just for themself. That better be a month+, otherwise dude is just bad at this.
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damn, another single shopper here and i spend $60-$80/week depending on what im cooking and what staples need refilled.
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C-zom posted...
I got deodorant, white bread, pb&j, bologna and american cheese. Enough to fit in half of one bag.

It was about $45 lol. This shit is unbelievable.

Bro. A single stick of my deodorant is 'on sale' at Walgreens for $9. I'll wait to hit up Sam's/Costco.
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FolkenRawr posted...
Bro. A single stick of my deodorant is 'on sale' at Walgreens for $9. I'll wait to hit up Sam's/Costco.

Same, actually, edited my post with the prices. It's insane.
Since only from below can one better see the heights.
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So is $250 a real amount, or just a number chatgpt came up with for you when it created this?
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I probably spend 150 a week.
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Idk how some of you spend money on groceries, but try to plan your meals out and aim for a specific price per meal (we currently aim to send about $4.50 a day - two people at $.75 per meal per person)

We do cook for a whole week at a time and do have big quantities of staples we use in most meals - rice, beans, chickpeas, etc. but goddamn seeing how much some people spend on shit is wild
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I tend to spend about $100/week. Sometimes more. Sometimes less.
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I buy for 3 people, and my weekly groceries are between $130-$170. And I shop at Publix, which is at the upper end on prices
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I spend like $200 a week but that's for a family of 4
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I spend $100 a month for just myself. I shop at Aldis though. OP didnt say what store they go to. That could make a difference.
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I spend about $400 a month on groceries for me and my partner. We also eat out at least 3 times a week.
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Go shop at places like Walmart and don't buy the high end brands. That's why these bills are so high.
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Show your receipt, TC
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$250 was about what I would spend on groceries at a time, which I do once every two weeks. The number has gone down though now that I'm (hopefully temporarily) living with my parents and eating some of their food as well (I'd be perfectly fine with still buying all of my own food, but my mom thinks that would just be silly of me).
chaos_knight posted...
Go shop at places like Walmart and don't buy the high end brands. That's why these bills are so high.
I'll happily spend more at Publix if it means I never have to go to Walmart
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I feel like my grocery spending has been 200-250$ a month for the last decade and hasn't meaningfully changed much over that timespan.

Granted, I live alone and there are a number of things I could do cheaper.
Why not go all in?
JustMyOpinion posted...
Assume others don't want to live on rice and beans or whatever other poverty-esque meals you're making. Heck, chicken breast is relatively cheap and that's like $2.50 a pound. A gallon of water is $2 where I am.

Thing is we don't really eat poverty meals as you'd assume from that low of a budget.

Our breakfasts for the past week have been roasted potatoes, ham (seriously Target is the MVP here, after Easter every year we get a ham for 99/lb then they throw in a half off coupon and we have ham for the next 6 months for basically nothing), egg, and some cheese.

Toast with butter and ham

Iced coffee

When you operate with cooking at a scale meant for a weeks worth you end up saving so much money
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Groceries. What a funny, old timey word. Isn't that something? Groceries...groooceries
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For about 2 years I've been going with my mom to help carry/load/unload etc. plus some advice/feedback. I have been watching... week after week of 220-340 per week for 3 people depending on the week.

It's one of those things where you don't want to say anything initially because you want a gauge of consistency and patterns. It's straight up started to piss me off multiple times in the store. It's not even like it's prime cuts of meat or anything either. It's literally shit like frozen meals, several liters of soda, and heaven forbid we go without 3-4 boxes of snack cakes every 1-2 weeks.

Another person plays a big role in the issue by sucking food down like it's an olympic sprint and wasteful eating habits, I won't go into details... but yeah. I can believe a high grocery bill. As a bonus, the other person also says Trump will fix it. lol
NoxObscuras posted...
So is $250 a real amount, or just a number chatgpt came up with for you when it created this?


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How often do you go grocery shopping? $250 is for a couple weeks, that's not bad. If It's for 1 week, that's too much.
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pojr posted...
How often do you go grocery shopping? $250 is for a couple weeks, that's not bad. If It's for 1 week, that's too much.
Two weeks
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Euripides posted...
Show your receipt, TC

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