We use paper plates and a decent amount of convenience food because it's difficult to find anything besides chicken nuggets that everybody will eat, especially with autistics in the house. We've also found that if we don't keep some easy stuff on hand, we eat out more and expensive food at home is still usually cheaper than cheap food eaten out. And Don takes a lunch and several sodas with him to work most days.Cafe: At first when I read that I was like "omg rly?!" but with 7 to feed, that's about what my parents spent back when there were more of us in the house.. we had 8 mouths to feed everyday for quite a while.
How much do you spend per week and how many in your household?
I can't imagine $750 a month for groceries.. Imagine all the awesome things I could cook with that sort of money for my family. Where's that swooning emoticon..
If you're actually able to make use of the larger sizes of the products Sam's Club sells, you can definitely save money.
Not true. The price Sam's Club has on its meat and produce is lower than any supermarket around here, with one exception. The supermarkets drop the prices to Sam's Club levels on food that's about to expire. Take boneless chicken for example. Sam's Club usually sells that for $1.97/lb where I live. The supermarkets sell the same meat for ~$3.99/lb (when it first reaches the store), then slowly drops the price as time passes. Right before expiration, the supermarkets finally meet (or come close to meeting) Sam's price....but only if you had been previously buying name brands, or not shopping the sales. My penny-pinching wife has been to Sam's, and she's not impressed.