I'm feeling smug about my food budget this week for 3 reasons:
1) After talking with friends (who don't have kids, by the way), I discovered that we are not, in fact, the only family in the world who struggles (and often fails) to keep grocery bills under $100/week. This doesn't do anything to lower our bills, but it sure helps to feel like less of a failure!
2) That conversation with friends took place over a meal of grocery store roasted chickens, which were on sale for $4 apiece. Which we then boiled and added some veggies and rice to make a surprisingly delicious chicken soup, which we ate with those same friends 2 days later, and will freeze at least 4 servings of tonight. That makes at least 12 dinner-sized meals based on $8 worth of protein: money-saving success!
3) All that healthy domesticity is balanced out a little by this last bit. At the supermarket, I planned to grab a frozen pizza (whatever was on sale) for a weekend lunch. In our area, this is usually a $5-6 purchase. But Stop & Shop had DiGiorno's frozen pizzas at 2 for $10. AND there was some kind of special where if you spent $20 on DiGiorno's products, you got $10 off your grocery bill instantly. That means, as long as you buy 4 frozen pizzas, they cost $2.50 apiece. Needless to say, we now have a stash of frozen pizzas that will last us for several months.
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