One of the most intriguing questions we have, “How we determine our grocery cost which made up most of our living cost”

We found, it depends!

Based on how you plan your meals.    

With many diet and way to eat around your normal meal time: breakfast, lunch and dinner, these budget can vary from very modest to the most outlandish expensive cost out of your hard earn money in your wallet.

 

Pick your nutritional goal

First, you may need to determine what kind of food group do you want to consume over a week or so as It may be produce, dairy, seafood/meat, fruit and green veggie.

 

Having them all mapped out in a pie chart or something you can easily see and make decision for your family needs. This way, you can budget your spending and picking out how much to get during the weekly special offers and make sure you have a proper storage for them.

Your Nutrition needs, spreading out over the week 

Once you have the right ingredients for your weekly or so meal-plans, then plan to cook certain dishes according to the plan, your recipe and your inventory level. 

  

Make sure a proper daily dose of nutrition from the proper food groups by cooking according, i.e. , veggie dish with fish, seafood/meat or soup dish with rice along with some mix entrees with veggie and meat and protein dishes. Check off to cook ingredients with your inventory for most perishable. 

And one of the best way to keep your inventory fresh, is cook and consume those ingredient that have short shelf life FIRST, then moving along mixing and matching those with longer shelf life.  

This way you could save money as well as saving headache of throwing away FOOD/MONEY that doesn’t need to be.

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