My grocery bill for two people dropped under $50 a week and I'm still shocked

I mean, I always thought we were being careful, but I finally sat down and tracked every single thing for a month. Turns out, switching to a big pot of bean soup as our main lunch for the week was the game changer. I buy a bag of dry beans for like $2, some carrots and celery, and use the ham bone I froze from a holiday dinner. That one pot makes about eight meals. Combined with buying store brand oats for breakfast and planning dinners around what's on sale at the Kroger near me, the total just kept going down. It mattered because that extra $30 a week we're not spending on food is now going straight into our car repair fund. Has anyone else found one simple meal that cut their costs way more than they expected?

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the_phoenix7d ago

How did you get over the idea that cheap food has to be boring? I used to think saving money meant eating plain rice every day, but a big batch of lentil stew totally changed my mind. It's crazy how one pot of something can stretch so far and actually taste good.

cameron7637d ago

Plain rice? That sounds miserable.