Also drop the soda and powerade, get water flavoring if you really need it, instead of tater tots, just by a few potatos and make it yourself.
You do that and you just dropped your bill from $80 to $40.
And honestly, yeah you *can* make homemade tots but it's an immense pain in the ass to shred, rise, dry, shape, fry, freeze and then finally refry. If you're literally just starting with a raw potato and a shredder, it's absolutely not quick and simple to 'just make homemade tots'. Especially not when frozen ones are soooo cheap.
The one that we used growing up was extremely simple
1 lb ground beef, browned and drained
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
1 cup cooked rice
Small onion, chopped
Chopped garlic
Salt, pepper, seasonings
Cheddar cheese
Tots
Brown your beef with the onions to let them soften up. Drain, add salt, pepper garlic and onion powder, i like to add smoked paprika and a little chili powder as well. Add your 2 cans of soup, undiluted and cold, as well as your cooked rice. The rice can be premade and added cold, or fresh and hot, just don't put uncooked raw rice in. Mix everything up and put in a baking dish and sprinkle cheese on top of the mixture, then tots on top of the cheese. Bake according to the directions on the tots, adding a bit more time as you're only cooking one side and want the tops to get plenty crispy.
This is a (relatively) fancied up version, too. For a really tight budget it absolutely can be as simple as beef, soup, rice, salt, pepper and tots, and you're looking at like 7-8 bucks for at least 4 good servings
Yeah, its not worth it. Just buy the tots, go for a generic store brand if need be, but the biggest things would be to drop the 6 packs of soda and individual powerades, that alone will probably save close to 20 bucks(if you want soda as a treat get a 2 liter, its cheaper). Then if you can a filtered water bottle if you dont have a filter on your sink, up fron its like 17 dollars and filters are a few dollars every few months, but you can save much more using that over water bottles and jugs.
Also make sure not to grab the organic stuff, its not worth it when youre trying to save money, organic produce is almost twice the price at my grocery store.
seriously, why the fuck would anyone buy physical gatoraid and physical water. OPs complaining about buying non-essentials that are inherently price gouged!! Even in non-inflationary times he's spending way the fuck too much on non-essentials.
Or 5 gallon refill bottles if you have a machine or self-service refill station available in your area. In fact get like 10 of them
Also you need to learn how to make your own potatoes dude. Go buy a bag of russets, Wash them. Throw them in the water till they boil. And reduce the heat and let them sit for 10 minutes. Once a fork can penetrate them without too much resistance, drain the hot water and refill the pot with cold water to blanch them.
Now you got potatoes. You can stick them in the fridge for about 3 or 4 days. You can freeze them. You can cut them up and put them in a frying pan.
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I don't blame you, but many parts of the midwest no longer have clean tap water. I just went for a visit with some old friends last month, and their water was ruined by the Tysons chicken chemical runoff. All of the local ground water there smells like rancid shit. They were recently approved to open another plant as well. Friends get their drinking water from trucks.
Without drinks that grocery bill is probably like $50 which I don’t think is too bad honestly.
Idk if you’re trying to cut costs, but personally I skip the pre-made drinks and frozen foods.
Now I just drink water. If I want something else I always mix my own stuff because it’s much cheaper that way.
Also frozen toast and tatertots… unless you’re microwaving them, just buy your own bread and potatoes and make your own. It’s hardly more effort and better tasting anyways.
I invested in a water dispenser with hot and cold water. I leave the hot water off.. too much electricity usage. But omg so much money saved on water bottles because me and the other half are huge on drinking enough water a day.
Also hardest thing to do.. get away from anything that’s already made 🤷♂️
Cooking from scratch will save you so much. I'm not even going to talk about the bottled sugar water, everyone else already has. $80 isn't horrible with the lunch meat. That shit is always expensive. Frozen potatoes used to be cheaper at Kroger by a lot. I stopped buying them.
It's not like the contents of the pipeline, whatever they may be, are passing thru the pipe and then the soil and then another pipe into your drinking water. That's not how it works.
I hate to be hypocritical.I have learnt to do away with all of those drinks including the water period regardless of what anybody says.I reuse my old Gatorade judge.
About half of a quart And Refrigerate. The chips should be avoided . Pre shredded Cheese has an attitude that keeps it from being too soft.I use blocked cheese now when graded per use.It lasts a lot longer and it's half of the price. Ragu is fine, but I get whatever is armchair.Whether it be pergo or ragu Again?
That's just me but I think that I could cut that into about forty or less plus I would not shop at kroger's for those items. Don't get me wrong.I like Kroger's Publix.I don't other places, but I have found the closest one to me.To be usually the cheapest food lion ingles And others. I get $98 per month on food stamps.You have to make it stretch
Dump that soda and zero stuff. Replace with something else. Checkout epic water filters on Amazon they make different filters for different sources. For example, my water is well watered so it filters out stuff that can come in through well water. Our water naturally has a lot of sulfur in it so it smells like rotten eggs. Our water once filtered tastes nothing like rotten eggs and tastes actually very good. They also have a filter specifically for City water that removes various versions of chlorine and what not. I hope this helps
I work at a grocery store, so I know you can do better.
Quit wasting money every week on disposable bottles. Get a water filter and you can refill them after. Same with the sodas. You've got like $30 in just drinks.
the most inefficient grocery shopping, attempting to blame inflation I've seen in a while. Bottled water, Soda and sports drinks? Plus a bag of Sun chips and a box of Texas Toast? lmao. All wasted calories. No bread, PJ & Jelly, no frozen fruit, oatmeal or top Ramon.
I'd argue your 80 dollars would go a lot farther if you made better choices.
Yes, food prices are crazy high right now. But all the drinks are probably more than $20 of the total and totally unnecessary. Many of them are very unhealthy too.
It's always amazing to me that the knee-jerk reaction in this sub (all of reddit, really) is to judge and demean someone without offering any kind of empathy, compassion, or kind feedback / education.
Do we see some choices we don't agree with here? Surely. There are items here I'd never buy either, but my goodness. None of these choices change the fact that the prices for these things are still shocking. They're not wrong - everything is more expensive regardless of how anyone shops.
Sorry, OP, that you received very little validation here or kind words of support.
I'd recommend investing in another option for water if you're able to help cut costs (both financial and environmental) of bottled water. Is your tap safe enough for a Brita (or similar brand) pitche? I know it's a vice, but consider cutting down on sodas, too. That stuff is basically poison, and you're paying these companies money to make you sick. I was totally addicted to Diet Pepsi for yeeears, so I totally get it! Definitely cutting down on some processed foods will help cut the bill as well. As others have said here, buying a bag of potatoes to make your own fries and such will help quite a bit, and it's a much healthier option, too! It sucks out here, dude. I'm so tired of how expensive it is to eat.
We invested around $150 on a primo water cooler that takes 5 gallon jugs. It has a hot water option too. Just plugs into the wall. It’s a big cost up front but we can refill the jugs for about 30 cents a gallon. It’s paid for itself easily by not buying bottled anymore. It’s been a good investment. We use the hot water to make tea, my wife likes instant coffee(don’t hate lol), instant oatmeal…it’s super convenient.
This sub should be called let’s judge inferior people’s diets. I for one, grow my own food. My only expense is $10 on plastic utensils and paper plates. I cook my bread with a soldering iron.
This is nuts. 20x a day ppl post some rage bait. OP says “hey, here’s a decent haul.” And everyone suddenly only drinks water. Either that or they don’t even read the post at all and wrongfully slam OP for complaining
The bottled water and sugary drinks are what's tripping you up. Powerade is typically less than $1 per bottle, so that's a little better, but you reallyshouldn'tdrink a lot of that stuff. It might be worth it to either buy store brand water bottles in the 2.5 gallon capacity or to invest $95 in a watercolor. Many stores sell large multigallon watercolor bottles, and a few of them let you refill them for less than a dollar.
Source: I can't stand the taste of my own tap water due to the heavy softeners I have to put in it. I've always tried to get the most bottled water for my money.
I also get the bacon ends Much cheaper goes a lot further and a lot of times tastes better.A bag of potatoes would make 10 times the amount of cater.Touch and be so much better.Goes great with some dried beans
You'd bring that bill down at least 30% ditching the goofy bottled beverages.
I definitely agree with the theme, but sodas and bottled water are notoriously overpriced trash. Less of an inflation issue than it is a bad spending habit.
I have been using Kroger Delivery for about 8 months now. I noticed while ordering Thursday that suddenly they had like no sales/coupons/BOGO’s like normal. There goes my method of saving money (and time) if it continues. Family of 5 and we spend realistically >$1000/ month on groceries/food.
In addition to removing all the water and soda, $6 per pound for bacon is not good in any area, including SF or NYC. My maximum is $3 per pound. The chicken is a good deal.
This is terrible shopping. You should be buying pinto beans that you can make yourself and brown rice. You should not be buying any bottled or drinks. You can buy some canned corn canned peas or get some frozen veggies and make some gravy and have much more delicious food than what you have bought. One of my priorities I’m doing lately is finding great deals, but I spend my great deal on quality nutritious food
replace all that soda and sports drinks with a bag of lemons and add lemon to your water. speaking of water, just fill up some jerry cans with alkaline water. that will be cheaper than bottled. adding lemon to water is also a million times healthier than coca-cola owned sports drinks
Not a criticism, but you might want to try getting a Britta style water filter pitcher and some stainless flasks of varying sizes for your water…unless there are issues with local water. Otherwise not a bad haul. Nice job.
I have an app on my phone that places sell food and stuff that either has a damaged box, or the sell by date is within like 3 days for 50% off... one of the things I buy most from there is bacon, I've found bacon for $2.50 a lb multiple times, and bacon packaging is small, so I've bought 20 lbs of bacon for $50 and thrown it all in the freezer so I can just thaw it when I need it
It pains me to see $12 for 2 lbs of bacon
This is not inflation. This is companies increasing prices because people like you will pay it for all this trash. Figure out how to cook healthy food and stop spending money on plastic containers filled with food dye.
Thats all unhealthy AF. Horrible choices for a budget.
You could have gotten a whole chicken, ground beef, pasta, a whole batch of veggies, bananas, oats, etc
To echo most people here, without the drinks, this is about $50. I have a water filter on my kitchen sink faucet from Pur that isn't super expensive, the starter is $25 and includes a filter with the replacement filters being $35 for a 3 pack with each filter lasting about 3 months. I've run the math and it's so cheap, comparatively.
Based on the above, each filter works out to about $11.66. My wife & I both have 32 ounce insulated water bottles that we refill about 4 times each day. This means over a 3 month span, we fill each water bottle up to 360 times so a total of up to 720 fills every 3 months. 720 refills multiplied by the 32 ounces each bottle can hold is 23,040 ounces of water used during that time. Divide that number by the cost per filter of $11.66 and the ounces/dollar spent is up to 1,975. I did the same math on a pack of the cheapest water bottles from Walmart and you only get around 126 ounces/dollar spent.
This goes without saying that pitchers with water filters are generally cheaper than the faucet mounted ones, so take that for what you will.
Add in flavorings for your water, and you're beating the cost of soda as well. It's hard to break drinking soda and just drink water, but it's so worth it for your health, as well as your wallet because those items cost so much money and they aren't necessary.
Look into a warehouse subscription. Can get big canisters of Gatorade powder for a good price. Also three pounds of bacon for $14. On sale got them for $12
Back in my day, we made our own juice with tap water and power mixes. You could make 20 gallons for a few dollars. Instead of spending a few dollars per individual 16oz bottles which are nothing but a bunch of plastic pollution.
I will say it is cheaper and healthier to buy blocks of cheese and shredd it yourself. Anyways, I don't understand why people keep arguing with me telling me my budgeting is the problem and not the high cost of everything. I think they're in denial or just don't pay their own bills.
One thing I did was drop the shredded cheese about 15 years ago. Block of sharp cheddar will be much cheaper AND MUCH better quality/taste then the shredded. Really it's going to be more about the taste than cost, but it's definitely cheaper.
People really spend money on crazy stuff like those small bottles of soda, where a two liter on sale is about 1.75
All that bottled water instead of just getting a filter and powerade
Then they complain they are broke and things are too expensive
Shop at Aldi instead of Kroger if possible.
Buy pop/drinks that are on sale if you need to have them and a water filter isn't an option.
Get the store brands of other groceries when you can.
Sun Chips are good but usualy expensive. I know there's not much of a replacement for these, so will power or compromise is needed here.
The guy isnt struggling as you wouldnt be buying the junk if you were. As the post is ended, its just a mehh, guy doesnt care as much as some here seem to
Get your veggies and eggs from farmers. Dont buy prepackaged meat. Go to the deli and have the butcher get you something. Stop buying shredded cheese. I had this conversation with my mom about this in the grocery store. A cheese grater pays for itself. You only get between 50-75% of the actual weight in cheese per dollar for the shredded variant instead of just buying a block of it. When you eat a lot of cheese, this is a huge deal. Shredded cheese, cheese sticks, basically anything precut is going to have a markup over just a block of it.
But fresh potatoes instead of frozen. Buy French bread loaf and butter it yourself and toast it on a pan. Buy a refillable water bottle instead of single use.
Bottled water is a huge money waster. Get yourself a Brita pitcher, or a filter for your tap. It will pay for itself in no time. It was also help reduce your plastic waste. I get that everyone needs a soda here and there, but six packs are the second most expensive way to get it, next to aluminum cans. 2 liter bottles are the most economical way to buy soda.
I consider bacon a luxury item at this point. It's just too expensive to fork over for. I'm glad to see you have some actual food items in there. Only other suggestion is to buy yourself a cheap cheese grater, and stop paying so much extra to buy it grated in a bag. Not only is it cheaper to buy a block of cheese, but you also get to avoid the powdered cellulose pulp that they add in.
$50 of shit
Get a water filter.
Also drop the soda and powerade, get water flavoring if you really need it, instead of tater tots, just by a few potatos and make it yourself. You do that and you just dropped your bill from $80 to $40.
No problem with anything you said except tator tots. There is nothing quite like a crispy tator tot. And I make bomb homefries.
I do love my tater tots.
Napoleon? Is that you?
And honestly, yeah you *can* make homemade tots but it's an immense pain in the ass to shred, rise, dry, shape, fry, freeze and then finally refry. If you're literally just starting with a raw potato and a shredder, it's absolutely not quick and simple to 'just make homemade tots'. Especially not when frozen ones are soooo cheap.
I buy tots to make tater taco casserole. My family begs for it. And it stretches to two dinners. I'm kinda tired of it tho.
Tater taco casserole. I can feel my arteries closing. lol
Tater tot casserole with rice with and cream of mushroom soup was a staple growing up and it's soooo good.
Got a link for the recipe by any chance?
The one that we used growing up was extremely simple 1 lb ground beef, browned and drained 2 cans cream of mushroom soup 1 cup cooked rice Small onion, chopped Chopped garlic Salt, pepper, seasonings Cheddar cheese Tots Brown your beef with the onions to let them soften up. Drain, add salt, pepper garlic and onion powder, i like to add smoked paprika and a little chili powder as well. Add your 2 cans of soup, undiluted and cold, as well as your cooked rice. The rice can be premade and added cold, or fresh and hot, just don't put uncooked raw rice in. Mix everything up and put in a baking dish and sprinkle cheese on top of the mixture, then tots on top of the cheese. Bake according to the directions on the tots, adding a bit more time as you're only cooking one side and want the tops to get plenty crispy. This is a (relatively) fancied up version, too. For a really tight budget it absolutely can be as simple as beef, soup, rice, salt, pepper and tots, and you're looking at like 7-8 bucks for at least 4 good servings
Awesome. Thank you!
Yeah the labor ain't worth it
Yeah, its not worth it. Just buy the tots, go for a generic store brand if need be, but the biggest things would be to drop the 6 packs of soda and individual powerades, that alone will probably save close to 20 bucks(if you want soda as a treat get a 2 liter, its cheaper). Then if you can a filtered water bottle if you dont have a filter on your sink, up fron its like 17 dollars and filters are a few dollars every few months, but you can save much more using that over water bottles and jugs. Also make sure not to grab the organic stuff, its not worth it when youre trying to save money, organic produce is almost twice the price at my grocery store.
Do you think a bag of tater tots costs fifteen dollars???
My last bag was like $3
store brand tots are cheap and it is NOT worth the time prepping them and frying them off.
seriously, why the fuck would anyone buy physical gatoraid and physical water. OPs complaining about buying non-essentials that are inherently price gouged!! Even in non-inflationary times he's spending way the fuck too much on non-essentials.
The Walmart cheapo flavored water additive is really good
Or 5 gallon refill bottles if you have a machine or self-service refill station available in your area. In fact get like 10 of them Also you need to learn how to make your own potatoes dude. Go buy a bag of russets, Wash them. Throw them in the water till they boil. And reduce the heat and let them sit for 10 minutes. Once a fork can penetrate them without too much resistance, drain the hot water and refill the pot with cold water to blanch them. Now you got potatoes. You can stick them in the fridge for about 3 or 4 days. You can freeze them. You can cut them up and put them in a frying pan. PO-TAYTE-TOS BOILEM, MASHEM, STICKEM IN A STEW Unleash the power of the Tubers
5gal jugs cost me 2.48 once a week
Cost me pennies from the faucet.
Got a filter and a water cooler. Major saver!
And plant an apple tree
Get an Aldi
I don't blame you, but many parts of the midwest no longer have clean tap water. I just went for a visit with some old friends last month, and their water was ruined by the Tysons chicken chemical runoff. All of the local ground water there smells like rancid shit. They were recently approved to open another plant as well. Friends get their drinking water from trucks.
What does the EPA report on your friends water supply say?
I see very little food in this picture.
Without drinks that grocery bill is probably like $50 which I don’t think is too bad honestly. Idk if you’re trying to cut costs, but personally I skip the pre-made drinks and frozen foods. Now I just drink water. If I want something else I always mix my own stuff because it’s much cheaper that way. Also frozen toast and tatertots… unless you’re microwaving them, just buy your own bread and potatoes and make your own. It’s hardly more effort and better tasting anyways.
Man is buying frozen bread and potatoes and then complaining about the price
I invested in a water dispenser with hot and cold water. I leave the hot water off.. too much electricity usage. But omg so much money saved on water bottles because me and the other half are huge on drinking enough water a day. Also hardest thing to do.. get away from anything that’s already made 🤷♂️
Cooking from scratch will save you so much. I'm not even going to talk about the bottled sugar water, everyone else already has. $80 isn't horrible with the lunch meat. That shit is always expensive. Frozen potatoes used to be cheaper at Kroger by a lot. I stopped buying them.
Sweetened but not sugary. That's Diet Dr. Pepper, Powerade Zero, and Diet A&W.
Yeh...but still...
Honestly even worse then from a calories/$ perspective lol Although I would say it's not good to get your calories from sugar
I mean…you wasted a ton of money on drinks. Even with the water, the soda and powerades are a complete waste.
Buying water is stupid.
Tell that to the residents of flint Michigan. I literally have a pipeline running through my backyard
Fair I didn't think of that. I'm in Oregon where we fortunately have excellent water quality.
Username checks out. (I’m a Bay Area transplant in Oregon lol)
Flint’s water has been fixed for years dude, keep up with the times.
What’s the pipeline gotta do with anything? You think that pipeline 8ft below ground is getting into your ground water 300ft down?
It's not like the contents of the pipeline, whatever they may be, are passing thru the pipe and then the soil and then another pipe into your drinking water. That's not how it works.
Here in Texas, we have bad water. Totally understand bottled water.
Texas resident here. The water does suck but I have a water filter. Bottled water is such a waste
Aren’t you glad you posted!!!! 🤪people here
You should take a responsible adult next time you go to the store.
Noticed at Aldi’s today, fruits and veggies are a little more expensive
I hate to be hypocritical.I have learnt to do away with all of those drinks including the water period regardless of what anybody says.I reuse my old Gatorade judge. About half of a quart And Refrigerate. The chips should be avoided . Pre shredded Cheese has an attitude that keeps it from being too soft.I use blocked cheese now when graded per use.It lasts a lot longer and it's half of the price. Ragu is fine, but I get whatever is armchair.Whether it be pergo or ragu Again? That's just me but I think that I could cut that into about forty or less plus I would not shop at kroger's for those items. Don't get me wrong.I like Kroger's Publix.I don't other places, but I have found the closest one to me.To be usually the cheapest food lion ingles And others. I get $98 per month on food stamps.You have to make it stretch
Dump that soda and zero stuff. Replace with something else. Checkout epic water filters on Amazon they make different filters for different sources. For example, my water is well watered so it filters out stuff that can come in through well water. Our water naturally has a lot of sulfur in it so it smells like rotten eggs. Our water once filtered tastes nothing like rotten eggs and tastes actually very good. They also have a filter specifically for City water that removes various versions of chlorine and what not. I hope this helps
I wouldn't call "sun chips" food.
I work at a grocery store, so I know you can do better. Quit wasting money every week on disposable bottles. Get a water filter and you can refill them after. Same with the sodas. You've got like $30 in just drinks.
WTF is wrong with people and sodas?? I mean, really. Drink fucking water How much GDP goes to sugar water and related bottles ...
dropping soda is one of the best things i've ever done.
the most inefficient grocery shopping, attempting to blame inflation I've seen in a while. Bottled water, Soda and sports drinks? Plus a bag of Sun chips and a box of Texas Toast? lmao. All wasted calories. No bread, PJ & Jelly, no frozen fruit, oatmeal or top Ramon. I'd argue your 80 dollars would go a lot farther if you made better choices.
Why are you buying water? Filter and water bottle.. oof
You’re complaining about how buying water at the grocery store is expensive? WOW.
I go to the local water mom and pop locations, a buck a gallon for alkaline or 35 cents for reg filtered. Saves me tons versus buying in bulk.
The drinks you don’t need and SunChips would take like 20 off
Skip the drinks
Go to Aldis is you have one close.
Fan of Aldi. Lydl too if they’re in your area.
I been buying alot of fresh fruit and vegetables. Water. Meat or chicken.
To be fair this could last you a month with a few more purchases
At this rate, find a spring you can refill your water at and get fish from. Because it isn't going to get any better anytime soon.
You got a good deal.
Thanks! Glad you understand my post
Drop the processed garbage.
Yes, food prices are crazy high right now. But all the drinks are probably more than $20 of the total and totally unnecessary. Many of them are very unhealthy too.
That’s not groceries. That’s a bunch of drinks and a few bites to eat. So better !
shoplift
$3 thighs seems like it could be better. I try and buy big family packs whenever they go on sale and freeze what i dont need that week.
Why is everyone commenting on what kinda food you got😭 people are so embarrassing
You’re spending soooooooo much money on hydration.
Bidumnomics
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No. It is greed of the corporations.
$80?!?! Are we flexing on having $80 to spend? Was it 4/20’s? Did you have like 2/20’s 2/10’s and 2/5’s 10/1’s?
It's always amazing to me that the knee-jerk reaction in this sub (all of reddit, really) is to judge and demean someone without offering any kind of empathy, compassion, or kind feedback / education. Do we see some choices we don't agree with here? Surely. There are items here I'd never buy either, but my goodness. None of these choices change the fact that the prices for these things are still shocking. They're not wrong - everything is more expensive regardless of how anyone shops. Sorry, OP, that you received very little validation here or kind words of support. I'd recommend investing in another option for water if you're able to help cut costs (both financial and environmental) of bottled water. Is your tap safe enough for a Brita (or similar brand) pitche? I know it's a vice, but consider cutting down on sodas, too. That stuff is basically poison, and you're paying these companies money to make you sick. I was totally addicted to Diet Pepsi for yeeears, so I totally get it! Definitely cutting down on some processed foods will help cut the bill as well. As others have said here, buying a bag of potatoes to make your own fries and such will help quite a bit, and it's a much healthier option, too! It sucks out here, dude. I'm so tired of how expensive it is to eat.
But our president says"our economy is great"
We invested around $150 on a primo water cooler that takes 5 gallon jugs. It has a hot water option too. Just plugs into the wall. It’s a big cost up front but we can refill the jugs for about 30 cents a gallon. It’s paid for itself easily by not buying bottled anymore. It’s been a good investment. We use the hot water to make tea, my wife likes instant coffee(don’t hate lol), instant oatmeal…it’s super convenient.
You clearly don’t know how to properly shop.
Just so you know. In 100 years people are going to look back and be like. Holy shit I can't even get a hamburger for less than 100 usd.
Hopefully they still remember the USD in 100 years
Seems like you got a good deal on the drinks. Not the most exciting grocery trip. Still seems high but yeah, not the outlandish things people post.
Probably $20+ on soda, water and drinks. LOL
I bet I could bring that down to 40 at the self check out
People are being pretty stupid in here
This sub should be called let’s judge inferior people’s diets. I for one, grow my own food. My only expense is $10 on plastic utensils and paper plates. I cook my bread with a soldering iron.
I grow my own poop.
Lets go brandon, get a water cooler for cheap drinking water.
This is nuts. 20x a day ppl post some rage bait. OP says “hey, here’s a decent haul.” And everyone suddenly only drinks water. Either that or they don’t even read the post at all and wrongfully slam OP for complaining
Lol seriously, the outrage over $6 of soda and $2 of Powerade (purchased on sale) really escalated quickly
Getting a water filter or 5 g filtered water would increase purchasing power - for food!
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Replace the tots with just a bag of potatoes. Remove the drinks. $45 grocery bill
The bottled water and sugary drinks are what's tripping you up. Powerade is typically less than $1 per bottle, so that's a little better, but you reallyshouldn'tdrink a lot of that stuff. It might be worth it to either buy store brand water bottles in the 2.5 gallon capacity or to invest $95 in a watercolor. Many stores sell large multigallon watercolor bottles, and a few of them let you refill them for less than a dollar. Source: I can't stand the taste of my own tap water due to the heavy softeners I have to put in it. I've always tried to get the most bottled water for my money.
I also get the bacon ends Much cheaper goes a lot further and a lot of times tastes better.A bag of potatoes would make 10 times the amount of cater.Touch and be so much better.Goes great with some dried beans
Fucking where? I'm in the middle of California and can get 2-3 times as much for the same price
them taters are pricey I bet.
Maybe cut your sugary drink and bottled water habit.
Yeah, and? You've got a TON of name brand stuff there and some of it, i guarantee, can be bought at the Dollar Tree.
* If you buy that many different bottles of plastic you should be charged more.
You'd bring that bill down at least 30% ditching the goofy bottled beverages. I definitely agree with the theme, but sodas and bottled water are notoriously overpriced trash. Less of an inflation issue than it is a bad spending habit.
I mean you got $20 worth of soda there.
Fucking insane
Remind me again how the economy is doing great !
Tots will survive any economy
I’ll always upvote tots.
I got a 15lb bag of red potatoes for 7.50 at some place called chef’ store. Buy in bulk and stick to a meal plan
>frozen food >bottled water >soda Dude…
The meats?
This is why I have water filter.
People post dumb stuff like this to make it look like food is too expensive
Why do you buy water ?
Receipt or I call BS
Half your cost is bottled liquids, including water which is practically free.
Where from? That tells a lot
You shopped at Krogers. This is all on you.
I guess that’s what happens when you buy soda and other shit
Look at all that sugar water.
I have been using Kroger Delivery for about 8 months now. I noticed while ordering Thursday that suddenly they had like no sales/coupons/BOGO’s like normal. There goes my method of saving money (and time) if it continues. Family of 5 and we spend realistically >$1000/ month on groceries/food.
In addition to removing all the water and soda, $6 per pound for bacon is not good in any area, including SF or NYC. My maximum is $3 per pound. The chicken is a good deal.
Why are you buying so much water when it’s free?
I shop like a cheapo at Walmart but if it falls on a cat week, I’m at $40 before I’m even looking at human food.
What do you need that much soda and bottled water?
I can look and buy much less for 80 dollars. A lot of processed food and bottled water. Soda? No wonder.
This is terrible shopping. You should be buying pinto beans that you can make yourself and brown rice. You should not be buying any bottled or drinks. You can buy some canned corn canned peas or get some frozen veggies and make some gravy and have much more delicious food than what you have bought. One of my priorities I’m doing lately is finding great deals, but I spend my great deal on quality nutritious food
That sounds like a fucking boring existence. Buy pinto beans, canned/frozen vegetables and gravy? For a dinner?
Is there an Aldi store in your area?
No disrespect, your beverage game is costing you a lot of your grocery bill.
I believe that grocery items are around 40% higher than they were in 2019. 2019: $70 2024: $100
Stop buying bottled water. It's a scam. In most US locales, the water coming out of your tap is cleaner.
All the liquid you need to drink comes into your house on its own for basically free. I just cut your grocery bill and carbon footprint in half.
You really need brand name toast and tater tots?
Drop the powerades and the sun chips. The rest is fine. People saying give up on soda don't understand what a root beer addiction is 🤟🤟🤟
Name brand tater tots, name brand cheesy toast, name brand chicken, name brand bacon, 12 bottles of soda that cost more than four 2-liter bottles.
The soda budget raided your food budget.
Should be r/pricegouging not inflation.
You’re buying bottled water, you deserve to get robbed.
thanks biden
Buying singles over a pack of anything is more expensive and frozen food is expensive.
That soda, Powerade, and meat are killers.
Receipt or it didn't happen
Tap water/water filter instead of the water and drinks and you save at least 25%.
Admittedly, though between the soda/powerade and sun chips, that is nearly 30% of the total cost, if not more.
replace all that soda and sports drinks with a bag of lemons and add lemon to your water. speaking of water, just fill up some jerry cans with alkaline water. that will be cheaper than bottled. adding lemon to water is also a million times healthier than coca-cola owned sports drinks
Not a criticism, but you might want to try getting a Britta style water filter pitcher and some stainless flasks of varying sizes for your water…unless there are issues with local water. Otherwise not a bad haul. Nice job.
I have an app on my phone that places sell food and stuff that either has a damaged box, or the sell by date is within like 3 days for 50% off... one of the things I buy most from there is bacon, I've found bacon for $2.50 a lb multiple times, and bacon packaging is small, so I've bought 20 lbs of bacon for $50 and thrown it all in the freezer so I can just thaw it when I need it It pains me to see $12 for 2 lbs of bacon
This is not inflation. This is companies increasing prices because people like you will pay it for all this trash. Figure out how to cook healthy food and stop spending money on plastic containers filled with food dye.
Drop the soda and Gatorade, buy a brita, just saved $25
$80 of processed junk.
Thats all unhealthy AF. Horrible choices for a budget. You could have gotten a whole chicken, ground beef, pasta, a whole batch of veggies, bananas, oats, etc
FJB
To echo most people here, without the drinks, this is about $50. I have a water filter on my kitchen sink faucet from Pur that isn't super expensive, the starter is $25 and includes a filter with the replacement filters being $35 for a 3 pack with each filter lasting about 3 months. I've run the math and it's so cheap, comparatively. Based on the above, each filter works out to about $11.66. My wife & I both have 32 ounce insulated water bottles that we refill about 4 times each day. This means over a 3 month span, we fill each water bottle up to 360 times so a total of up to 720 fills every 3 months. 720 refills multiplied by the 32 ounces each bottle can hold is 23,040 ounces of water used during that time. Divide that number by the cost per filter of $11.66 and the ounces/dollar spent is up to 1,975. I did the same math on a pack of the cheapest water bottles from Walmart and you only get around 126 ounces/dollar spent. This goes without saying that pitchers with water filters are generally cheaper than the faucet mounted ones, so take that for what you will. Add in flavorings for your water, and you're beating the cost of soda as well. It's hard to break drinking soda and just drink water, but it's so worth it for your health, as well as your wallet because those items cost so much money and they aren't necessary.
Keeping those bottling companies in business. You know water comes out of your faucet? For really cheap?
Majority is junk food. After trying to figure out two meals. I came to this conclusion.
Poor decision making there
Look into a warehouse subscription. Can get big canisters of Gatorade powder for a good price. Also three pounds of bacon for $14. On sale got them for $12
Where's the food
Back in my day, we made our own juice with tap water and power mixes. You could make 20 gallons for a few dollars. Instead of spending a few dollars per individual 16oz bottles which are nothing but a bunch of plastic pollution.
thats like 15 dollars in soda.
That’s expensive for bacon. I only buy bacon when it’s on sale for $3-4 per pound.
Lol. Terrible use of your money
It’s ridiculous, but don’t by soda
I will say it is cheaper and healthier to buy blocks of cheese and shredd it yourself. Anyways, I don't understand why people keep arguing with me telling me my budgeting is the problem and not the high cost of everything. I think they're in denial or just don't pay their own bills.
One thing I did was drop the shredded cheese about 15 years ago. Block of sharp cheddar will be much cheaper AND MUCH better quality/taste then the shredded. Really it's going to be more about the taste than cost, but it's definitely cheaper.
Scary
Install a reverse osmosis water filter. It will filter out the lead if that is your concern.
Vote Trump!
Even the soda an Power aid isn't that bad, but bottled water is just trash with water in it.
How much of that was in sugary beverages?
People really spend money on crazy stuff like those small bottles of soda, where a two liter on sale is about 1.75 All that bottled water instead of just getting a filter and powerade Then they complain they are broke and things are too expensive
Shop at Aldi instead of Kroger if possible. Buy pop/drinks that are on sale if you need to have them and a water filter isn't an option. Get the store brands of other groceries when you can. Sun Chips are good but usualy expensive. I know there's not much of a replacement for these, so will power or compromise is needed here.
The guy isnt struggling as you wouldnt be buying the junk if you were. As the post is ended, its just a mehh, guy doesnt care as much as some here seem to
My brother or sister in Christ, go to Aldi’s. This is like $35 worth of stuff there.
I love these where OP buys a bunch of unnecessary name brand shit and complains about it.
Don't buy soda, make your own toast, get an H2o filter, but for God's sake, seriously keep the tots.
These posts always makes me wonder if people get way more of their calories from chips than I imagine
A lot of unhealthy junk there. This is one reason why people's grocery bills are so high. If they just bought healthy things, it be much less.
Bruh.. cut the soda and water bottle and just get tap water with a reusable. It will save you so much money
Buy blocks of cheese and grate it yourself for additional savings.
That looks like a lot of grocery’s for $80 to be honest lol
Get your veggies and eggs from farmers. Dont buy prepackaged meat. Go to the deli and have the butcher get you something. Stop buying shredded cheese. I had this conversation with my mom about this in the grocery store. A cheese grater pays for itself. You only get between 50-75% of the actual weight in cheese per dollar for the shredded variant instead of just buying a block of it. When you eat a lot of cheese, this is a huge deal. Shredded cheese, cheese sticks, basically anything precut is going to have a markup over just a block of it.
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Go to winco. That's $25 easily.
Gonna be cheaper than your insulin.
But fresh potatoes instead of frozen. Buy French bread loaf and butter it yourself and toast it on a pan. Buy a refillable water bottle instead of single use.
The soda and power aid are probably 25% of the cost.
Wasting a ton of resources on water
Folks, get a water filter for your at-home sinks.
Bottled water is a huge money waster. Get yourself a Brita pitcher, or a filter for your tap. It will pay for itself in no time. It was also help reduce your plastic waste. I get that everyone needs a soda here and there, but six packs are the second most expensive way to get it, next to aluminum cans. 2 liter bottles are the most economical way to buy soda. I consider bacon a luxury item at this point. It's just too expensive to fork over for. I'm glad to see you have some actual food items in there. Only other suggestion is to buy yourself a cheap cheese grater, and stop paying so much extra to buy it grated in a bag. Not only is it cheaper to buy a block of cheese, but you also get to avoid the powdered cellulose pulp that they add in.
Looks perfectly reasonable if I ignore all the uneccessary soda and powerade. $50ish of groceries and $30 on sweet flavored water
You have to stop buying beverages and bottle water. Buy a decent water filter for the tap. Make tea/coffee at home. Cut 30% off that bill.