Here it seems like they are giving chicken away. It’s always on sale.
Budget Grocery Shopping and Meal Planning
- Thread starter AnnieClaus
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Got groceries today. Milk was usual price. Bananas have nearly doubled in price. Chicken on sale this week, beef is ridiculous, even 70/30 hamburger. Only thing that seemed reasonable was zucchini @ $0.69/lb.
Mince here is $14.00 a kilo. Not sure how that equates. Is a kilo 2lb?
Thanks for the information. I do get confused about kilos versus pounds.
Kilo is 2.2 pounds
I'll just add, the increase in fuel prices is starting to impact my grocery shopping. I've only gone once to the "big" store for groceries since getting back from Florida, in part due to distance -- about 5-6 miles away vs. the smaller locally owned store, 1/2 mile away. It cost $65 to fill my tank over the weekend -- I've got a 12 gallon tank with 2-gallon reserve. Yes, my tank was low, but I've never spent that amount on gas -- 50% more than what it cost for each fill-up on my way home from Florida less than a month ago. That's $20/tank that I can't spend on food. Not stock-piling much right now, buying groceries for the week only, and not going back to the store for items I may have forgotten on my list unless they are essential and there's no viable substitute. And, then I go to the closest store.
Lori, I understand what you are saying. Petrol here at the moment is sitting around $2.00 a litre, if my conversion is right that is just under $8.00 a gallon. The nearest supermarket from me is 32 kilometres away about 19 miles. My friend and I go to town once a week for Knit and Natter, while there we make sure we return library books, pick up any meds needed and shop at the supermarket to top up for the week. Every second Thursday we go to the other town closer to us for our big shop, check the mail etc.
I am going to Canberra this week and will top up on my Aldi shop. Will buy two or three blocks of cheese etc.
We are very mindful of not only the cost of fuel but the availability. We are also very mindful of making sure that we use every single thing that we buy. Troubling times indeed.
I am going to Canberra this week and will top up on my Aldi shop. Will buy two or three blocks of cheese etc.
We are very mindful of not only the cost of fuel but the availability. We are also very mindful of making sure that we use every single thing that we buy. Troubling times indeed.
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Yeah gas prices are ridiculous and soon groceries will get more expensive due to rise in fuel costs to ship. We keep a white board on a wall in the kitchen and write down things we run out of or are low on. Once a month we run to another town (about 30 minutes aways) where they have larger stores (BJs, Sams Club and a super Walmart) and do a big stock up. I shop the local grocery store weekly.
Gas prices, grocery prices, travel.
It has all gotten ridiculously high!
In a 2 week time I spent $152.00 on gas due to going to Tucson twice and over to my brother's.
My sister did top my gas off coming home from our brother's.
And yesterday I put another $40.00 in.
I drive 70 miles a day for work...............
It has all gotten ridiculously high!
In a 2 week time I spent $152.00 on gas due to going to Tucson twice and over to my brother's.
My sister did top my gas off coming home from our brother's.
And yesterday I put another $40.00 in.
I drive 70 miles a day for work...............
Went to the commissary today and the beef prices were quite high. Also, i could not find some of the less expensive cuts of meat like cube steak and even 80/20 ground beef so i had to buy more expensive ones in order to make what I wanted to.
Fruits and vegetables were not cheap either. The farmer's market doesn't open until June. I'd rather give them the money...
Fruits and vegetables were not cheap either. The farmer's market doesn't open until June. I'd rather give them the money...
I told DH much the same thing last night. He's notorious for just driving around to "look" and thinks nothing of driving to the town where I work (about 13 miles) after he gets off to pick something up that he wants. It makes him mad if I say anything about his coming to get something when I could have picked it up after work.