{"id":60878,"date":"2022-04-01T06:59:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T10:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/?p=60878"},"modified":"2022-04-01T06:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T10:59:43","slug":"grocery-spending-march-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/grocery-spending-march-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Grocery Spending: March 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well dang y&#8217;all. I was ready to waltz into here and celebrate my success in keeping the grocery bill delightfully low this month, but no such celebration will be taking place. Ok, maybe a small, silent, quick &#8220;<em>yay<\/em>&#8221; fist bump. But that&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone knows grocery prices are soaring; it&#8217;s just shocking to see in black and white. We ate out maybe twice this month and all other meals were at home. It&#8217;s true I bought some specialty items like the &#8220;00&#8221; pizza flour and we prioritize unprocessed whole foods with an emphasis on produce and protein, but we&#8217;ve done this for sometime and this is definitely the highest our bills have consistently been ever. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/what-ive-been-eating-lately-march-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See our March meals in this post<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/grocery-tracking-spending-March-2022-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/grocery-tracking-spending-March-2022-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/grocery-tracking-spending-March-2022-640x960.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/grocery-tracking-spending-March-2022-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/grocery-tracking-spending-March-2022-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/grocery-tracking-spending-March-2022-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/grocery-tracking-spending-March-2022-655x983.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/grocery-tracking-spending-March-2022.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/grocery-spending-january-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">January&#8217;s spending here<\/a> ($1,279.10) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/grocery-spending-february-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">February&#8217;s spending details here<\/a> ($1,598.03). As a quick reminder, this total is for food purchased and eaten at home only. It does not include dining out (though that is minimal) and does not include household items like toilet paper or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/branch-basics-cleaner-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cleaning products<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok, let&#8217;s break it down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"636\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-1024x636.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-1024x636.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-640x398.png 640w, https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-768x477.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-655x407.png 655w, https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image.png 1194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Costco $525.11<\/li><li>Publix $514.11<\/li><li>Butcher Box $208.08<\/li><li>Whole Foods $63.48<\/li><li>Food Lion $63.07<\/li><li><strong>GRAND TOTAL: $1,373.85<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In comparison <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/grocery-spending-february-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to last month<\/a>, I dropped the monthly total by $224.18. And now that I type it out, that&#8217;s nothing to scoff at, especially since I bought wine and fun items too (again, my fancy flour, some pricier snacks for the kids like dried mango, and collagen for coffee). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This month I did a better job with my meal planning routine, in the fact that I diligently shopped our freezer and fridge, then looked at the sales and BOGOs at Publix before making our plan and list. I do still think that helped. I think I just assumed before tracking that my monthly total bounced between $1000-$1,100 and to have proof that it&#8217;s significantly and consistently higher than that is interesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April should be interesting (and HIGH) because we are picking up our 1\/2 cow today. It comes out to $5 a pound for grass-fed (perhaps grain finished? I&#8217;ll ask) and that&#8217;s pretty incredible. Will it help lower our bills for the months to follow? I&#8217;ll be interested to see! Now to just convince David to get those chickens&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was prepared to knock March out of the park in terms of saving on groceries. The results surprised me a little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":60884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2338,2240],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60878"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60886,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60878\/revisions\/60886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}