Grocery Budget Blues
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Have you noticed my lack of posting about our grocery budget of late? That’s never a good sign. LOL.
My March grocery budget pretty much went out the window due to extra spending for the Easter weekend. I was only $30 over budget but it also meant nothing was put aside for meat.
The April budget is going okay-ish but it’s looking like there won’t be much left at the end of this month either.
It’s funny to think that only a few short years ago I was spending $100 a week and now I’m struggling to stay under $150.
Of course, there is one very big difference between then and now (and I’m not talking about grocery price increases - although that is a factor).
I’m not very motivated to keep my spending down.
I go along with the attitude that we have plenty of room in the budget for this little thing or that little thing and before you know it… *poof* Money all spent.
I think it goes to show that the key ingredient in keeping the grocery budget down is EFFORT.
May’s budget might be a little better as I won’t have much time for grocery shopping so there’ll be plenty of “using what we have”. Then again, there’ll probably be a lot more convenience foods purchased too. Will be interesting to see how we go.
The hardest thing right now is I know the kinds of things I COULD do. Things like:
- Menu Plan (and include low cost meals more often or at least on a regular basis)
- Avoid Impulse Buying (write a shopping list and stick to it)
- Bake More Lunch Box Snacks (if I can just find out what the kids WILL eat - they’re getting fussier as they get older)
- Make My Own Yoghurt (I have everything I need other than a “roundtoit”)
The question is, will I do them?
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*poof* Money all spent. Hey, me too!
But it’s not all your fault. Prices have risen a lot. A LOT. And now with the locusts ravaging crops in the north/north-east of the state, we can probably expect more price rises due to shortage of whatever the locusts have consumed. Wheat? Bread prices go up. Corn? Barley? Rice? don’t ask me what they grow up there, I’ve no idea, but related products will rise in price. Count on it. Budgets everywhere will need to be revised.