My grocery budget finally broke after 4 years of steady wins

Last Wednesday I walked out of Aldi with a full cart for $47 and realized I've been pricing out every item by the unit for so long it's just automatic now, but then I got home and found out my roommate accidentally threw away my meal prep containers and I had to start the week over.

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willow_garcia9h ago

Used to think people who tracked every penny were being too extra, but last month I helped my sister move and saw her fridge packed with prepped meals she calculated down to the ounce. Started doing it myself and I'm saving like $30 a week now. It really does become automatic after a while, doesn't it?

charles9197h ago

Oh man, same here lol. I started doing it with just my coffee habit - was spending like $5 a day at the shop and didn't even realize it added up to over $100 a month. Once I started tracking that one thing, I went down the rabbit hole. Now I meal prep every Sunday and I swear I spend maybe $40 a week on groceries total instead of like $80. The biggest thing for me was writing down what I actually waste. Like I used to buy bags of spinach and half would rot. Now I plan my meals around what I already have first. It's kinda fun once you get the hang of it, like a little puzzle.