Cheese. ALL of the cheese. For sure.
And Impossible Burgers and Field Roast sausages. I have a weakness for both, but good lord, $$$$
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Oh, and ALLLL of the Trader Joe’s snacks and sauces and fancy condiments.
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Ooh, would love more recs! Looks super interesting.
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This is part of why my grocery bill is so high 
TJs sauces rarely contain soybean oil compared to other places, which I can’t eat. Plus they’re just BETTER. We end up leaning heavily on TJs for sauces, and they’re def more $$ than cheap store brands, or “regular” brands on sale.
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Yes! TJ’s generally contains less crap ingredients of all sorts!
I need to make a run soon…
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Our grocery spending is about $1k - $1.5k/ month, and takeaway/cafes etc at an average of $500 on top of that. For us it’s a mix of food waste, convenience food, delivery for groceries, nappies, periodic depression/ mental health, food allergies (though our almond milk is generally the same as Ponder’s fancy A2 milk). Frozen berries are definitely regularly eaten.
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We don’t include diapers in groceries, that would certainly bump it some! Although we do buy lots of fancy coffee beans too, that adds like $150-200/mon.
Also not sure where current exchange rates are at but you’d be lower in USD right?
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Woah! Awesome list, thanks for sharing!
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Bat signalled! $1500 doesn’t sound that high to me if they’re including fancy craft beer too? That can be $$$!
We’ve cut down on our meat consumption, which has reduced our costs, plus I get some fresh produce from where I volunteer at a food pantry when they have excess of certain things. Without that supplementing, we’d be a lot higher. I haven’t done my spend tracking in ages though so I’m not sure what my monthly food spending is… maybe i just cheat because we don’t include fancy coffee or beer in our groceries 
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Ha! We only have a small amount of fancy coffee and no fancy beer. We are just wasteful. Side eyes the pre-schooler and the number of times I’ve been too tired to realise something has gone out of date and been about to cook it
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Oh I used to think I did pretty good avoiding food waste but then we had a baby and between her refusing to eat food or throwing it on the floor and being too tired and forgetting what’s in the fridge… at least we have a compost bin?
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Floor pantry is the new floordrobe?
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That’s where the best snacks are, according to our resident 20-month old.
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Why is it the food is so much more interesting once it’s on the floor? Extra seasoning?
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I have been binging this channel. I love her fearlessness with spices in her freezer meals prep.
the week has started off spendy with $90 already in groceries. And we still need to buy for tomorrow’s dinner with my parents.
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This happened to me yesterday with a 3# package of ground beef. I didn’t realize that the package had a sell buy date of Monday and we bought it on Sunday (grumble grumble - thank you grocery pickup person). I was even using it on the day I had planned to use it, just didn’t realize that it was already going bad. It didn’t look quite right so I wasn’t willing to just use it anyway.
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What does everyone pay for bacon, per pound? And where do you get it? I really like the thick cut style, and Costco sells it, but it comes out to like $6.21 lb., which really isn’t great…or is it?
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Lately we haven’t been buying much bacon, one because of food sourcing and two just because of the cost. But we can usually get a 3 pound pack of a local company at Fred Meyer for 15 bucks on sale. So five bucks a pound.
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