Couple of caveats to my figure out around $150. First I'm buying for two since I'm married. Second, we get most of our food at Reading Terminal and pay a bit of a premium there. We get a break on veggies by shopping at Iovine, but our meat is much more expensive and we tend to go a little crazy at the cheese shop. The big difference is that we eat really good.
Some weeks are more, some are less. Depends several things. Whenever we get sticker shock at the supermarket where we get dry goods, it's usuaully due to sundries like cat food and personal grooming items.
The biggest line item money waster is breakfest cereal. We need to find a good alternative.
The shocking thing about Reading Terminal is how cheap you can get very high quality produce. And I just compared chicken prices at the market last night. There's not much difference, but that locally grown chicken cooks up so much nicer.
I'm still astonished that I spend more than $20 a week. That's what I fed myself on when I was in college. I used to buy a lot of stuff in bulk from the food co-op and purchase whole, uncut chickens. Both measures kept prices down.
What about old-fashioned oatmeal? Not the instant stuff, because that's pretty expensive per serving, but the Quaker Oats in a cannister deal? Takes a bit longer to make, but healthier and cheaper and you can actually toss in real fruit.
If you do still want breakfast cereals (and I assume at this point you've already looked at the store-brand types), for me, it's Trader Joe's all the way.
I'm not all that fond of oatmeal, but I have been thinking about getting some oats and other whole grains and making my own cereal. I supposed it's be like making my own granola. I'd just buy that but I have such severe allergies to nuts that I can't risk most what they sell. I've already died once from unexpectedly eating a nut and I don't want to press my luck.
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The biggest line item money waster is breakfest cereal. We need to find a good alternative.
The shocking thing about Reading Terminal is how cheap you can get very high quality produce. And I just compared chicken prices at the market last night. There's not much difference, but that locally grown chicken cooks up so much nicer.
I'm still astonished that I spend more than $20 a week. That's what I fed myself on when I was in college. I used to buy a lot of stuff in bulk from the food co-op and purchase whole, uncut chickens. Both measures kept prices down.
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If you do still want breakfast cereals (and I assume at this point you've already looked at the store-brand types), for me, it's Trader Joe's all the way.
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