nomifyle
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OMG, $900 a month on groceries, I wasn't spending that much when I was really stocking up. And besides my ss check is only a little over $1000 a month, although I do have a couple of other income streams but they don't add up to all that much. I haven't really grocery shopped in about three weeks, I have a small grocery list going on my phone and it only comes to about $60. I'm well stocked on other than food, although I have a couple of bars of fels naptha and zote soap on my grocery list. The bar has gotten smaller, but its still cheap. The smell of the pink zote makes me just about want to die, but the white bar is fine. I don't need any more laundry soup, just wanted to add a bit to the bar soap stash.We don't have room for our grocery bill to increase any more than what it already has. We're going to have to make ourselves buy less, and learn to eat cheaper than what we do. My grocery bill runs around $450 every two weeks. That's $900/month. I include in that cleaning products, toiletry items, etc. and dog and cat food. Don't know what percent of Cary's income that is, though. We don't have a garden large enough to sustain us, either, due to our health.
DH grew up very poor, and we had what we needed but almost nothing extra. Most people we knew were in about the same shape. That was when a family with four children lived in a two bedroom house with one bathroom and they were happy.
I know how to eat cheaply. I can easily do beans daily, although they do give me gas.
Speaking of chickens, we have quite a few, including way too many roosters. DH has put 5 big beautiful roosters out of the chicken yard and is not feeding them. They are not going hungry because they have quite amount of space to hunt and peck. And he does throw some corn out for the goats and I'm sure they get a few grains of that.
Our goats are our pets and all they have cost us is fencing, lots and lots of fencing. We have about 8 acres fenced, mostly woods. I don't then even my meat eater DH would butcher one and we are too old to milk them.
God is good all the time
Judy