and your total is.... $634!!
I will start off by saying that Ryan and I have a Sunday "ritual" of the following:
church
- Checking what food we have in our house
- Look through adds online (mostly meijer) to figure out what we should buy to use what we have with whats on sale to make the most affordable, healthy meals.
- Go grocery shopping at Meijer
Our problem comes to be that we often don't get there til 8 or so at night. The shelves are pretty picked over of the good things we want (cause of course they are on sale). So we get frustrate.
Well this week Ry was sick so I went by myself. I must have gone earlier than normal cause it was packed and I was able to get everything on my list.
Time for check out.... too many items to do the self scan or the 12 items or less. So I head to the "shortest" line (meaning everyone has a cart full of groceries so it's a judgment of age and competence based on appearance to try and guess which line will go fastest. So I hope in this line. The person in front of me I see has a cart full of groceries and appears to be unloading quickly and things are scanning properly. Then I see it. His wife. At the end of the lane with 2 additional carts full of groceries. He keeps unloading. LOTS of GROCERIES. I am thinking to myself. They must have like 6 kids and this must be their only "alone" time. Neither of them are "fat" or "overweight"-- but I am mentally trying to figure out how much their bill is going to be. I say to the guy. Where do you guys put all this? He replies with a sigh-- "our 4 kids". I said well you must have a big kitchen too (what kinda comment was that I think to myself.). I was just astonished.
The last item is scanned..... a 1/8 inch stack of coupons are scanned. The "u promise" card is scanned (they will need all the contributions they can get). And the total.. $635!!!! And that was after coupons. Are you kidding me? I hope they only shop once a month. I can't even imagine where you would put it all either.
So for those of you with kids... is this a shocking number to you-- or am I just hopeful that I can still be a budget meal planner/ healthy eater when we have kids some day.
*** I should add there were things like mouthwash, and detergent in there too-- but what's $50 on that stuff when you are spending 600+!!??
church
- Checking what food we have in our house
- Look through adds online (mostly meijer) to figure out what we should buy to use what we have with whats on sale to make the most affordable, healthy meals.
- Go grocery shopping at Meijer
Our problem comes to be that we often don't get there til 8 or so at night. The shelves are pretty picked over of the good things we want (cause of course they are on sale). So we get frustrate.
Well this week Ry was sick so I went by myself. I must have gone earlier than normal cause it was packed and I was able to get everything on my list.
Time for check out.... too many items to do the self scan or the 12 items or less. So I head to the "shortest" line (meaning everyone has a cart full of groceries so it's a judgment of age and competence based on appearance to try and guess which line will go fastest. So I hope in this line. The person in front of me I see has a cart full of groceries and appears to be unloading quickly and things are scanning properly. Then I see it. His wife. At the end of the lane with 2 additional carts full of groceries. He keeps unloading. LOTS of GROCERIES. I am thinking to myself. They must have like 6 kids and this must be their only "alone" time. Neither of them are "fat" or "overweight"-- but I am mentally trying to figure out how much their bill is going to be. I say to the guy. Where do you guys put all this? He replies with a sigh-- "our 4 kids". I said well you must have a big kitchen too (what kinda comment was that I think to myself.). I was just astonished.
The last item is scanned..... a 1/8 inch stack of coupons are scanned. The "u promise" card is scanned (they will need all the contributions they can get). And the total.. $635!!!! And that was after coupons. Are you kidding me? I hope they only shop once a month. I can't even imagine where you would put it all either.
So for those of you with kids... is this a shocking number to you-- or am I just hopeful that I can still be a budget meal planner/ healthy eater when we have kids some day.
*** I should add there were things like mouthwash, and detergent in there too-- but what's $50 on that stuff when you are spending 600+!!??
3 Comments:
WOW!!!!
I have one kid who lives here and a few who eat here several times a week... (and my husband coming home soon) and we probably spend $3-400 a month...
but we do a lot of organic AND bulk shop at Costco. if we didn't do that, it would be more.
I guess I'm just hoping that it was a monthly bill, because that's alota mulla! We typically spend $100 a week with our two little girls (now mind you they are girls, and they aren't grown yet). But I pray I never spend that much for a weekly bill!
That is a TON of money. I spend about 400 a month on groceries..give or take. It depends on if I need to stock up on diapers, paper towel or "extras."
It's crazy how expensive groceries are these days.
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