{"id":59566,"date":"2021-10-26T08:05:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T12:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/?p=59566"},"modified":"2021-10-26T08:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T12:05:31","slug":"grocery-spending-2021-a-deep-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/grocery-spending-2021-a-deep-dive\/","title":{"rendered":"Grocery Spending 2021: A Deep Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

However, about 6 weeks ago I started noticing little things, like how the guacamole I buy was now $10 per pound instead of $8. Or that the bread I buy was getting to be about $6 a loaf. I decided to track my spending to closely not really to reduce costs, but to get a clear picture on what we were spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since I love a good challenge, I did tighten up on impulse buys and really thought twice before putting something in the cart (do I really need pumpkin spice nut pods?). By doing this, I thought I’d be wowed with my savings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have shared peeks into our grocery spending over the years. Obviously a lot has changed over time, like the fact that I’m feeding 4 people full meals instead of babies and toddlers, but it still was surprising to see our monthly spending in 2013 was $676<\/a> (averaging $116 a week) and in 2014, $176.20<\/a> a week, and in 2015, $165 a week<\/a>. In January of this year, it was only $168<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how about now? From September 19 – October 19, I spent $1,256.57 on groceries, averaging $314.14 a week! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am shook. Unlike previous counts in years past though, this might contain more types of items, like our food costs plus <\/em>things like trash bags, supplements, wine, toothbrushes, etc, but still, wow<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our breakdown of spending looked like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n