A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. ~Marion C. Garretty

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
~Marion C. Garretty

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Groceries by the numbers...

So now that we don't qualify for WIC anymore I have really been focusing on getting the best prices on groceries, clipping coupons and shopping at places where I get the best prices and where they double and triple them, and focusing on what we buy and what we use so as not to waste money on groceries we won't use. I have made a couple of observations which I find interesting to say the least:
  1. We go through roughly 10 gallons of milk per month. 10 gallons mostly just with MK and Bria drinking it. Mike has some (maybe 16 or so ounces a day), but mostly the girls. I haven't been drinking much milk since I started counting calories as I have a hard time justifying using 90 calories on a drink. Anyways, 10 gallons...WOW!
  2. We go through seven 4-packs of yogurt...Per WEEK!!! We all have a yogurt cup every day. 7 time 4...there you go. Currently in my refrigerator we have dannonino, dannon crush cups, oikos greek yogurt, activia (both a 4 pack of yogurt and a 4 pack of drinkable yogurt), stonyfield farm fat free individual serving yogurts, and a 32 ounce dannon all natural yogurt. It sounds like a lot, but next friday I guarantee you I will be buying more. All I have to say is THANK GOD FOR GREAT YOGURT COUPONS!
  3. We go through 5 1/2...yes 5 1/2 pounds of Bananas EVERY WEEK! Every week I get 2 1/2 -3 bunches of bananas and swear there is no way I will eat them all before they go bad and that I will be making banana bread. And without fail every week we eat every single one of them. I bought 5 1/2 pounds of bananas last Saturday. And as I sit here on Thursday night there is currently 1 banana, not one pound of bananas, but 1 singular banana left.
  4. Between Mine and Mike's lunches for work we go through 16 cans of tuna and 12-15 cans of soup per month.
On the plus side, we are eating a lot less bread. We go through a loaf in about a week and a half to two weeks. I don't eat much of it and Mike doesn't eat much of it, and I can't send peanut butter and jelly to the school with the kids and they won't eat lunch meat...so bread lasts. Ok, those are my grocery insights for the night...anything your family goes through? Or tips or tricks for saving money? I have heard that Aldi has GREAT prices on milk and produce among other things. I will have to check them out sometime soon.

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