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My grocery shopping regimen

October 24th, 2008 at 03:57 pm

Its that time again, I noticed in my pantry I have enough to make dinner for tonight and that is it.

SO I pulled out the cookbooks picked out 19 recipes to make. Last time I had picked 14 and obviously that wasn't enough.

After I make the list, I proceed to go back to all the recipes and write down the ingredients, organize them by type (veggies, canned goods, etc) in an excel sheet so I can consolidate ingredients from recipes and organize them to reflect the layout of our grocery store easier once I'm done.

Meanwhile, as I go through this I look through my pantry to see what I don't need to go shopping for (i.e., olive oil, pepper, etc) so I don't double up on anything (that is how we got 3 bottles of chili powder).

Then I look through my coupons and search online for coupons for the ingredients on my list. And then organize them by the order I'll come across them in the grocery store.

Its a process... but it saves us a lot of money and reduces our waste consumption of food. I don't do it because I ENJOY doing this. But I enjoy being more efficient with my money and making it stretch.

Also, I paid down the GTI today, so the balance is now $9150.. which is refreshing, we haven't owed that little on a car since 2002! So we're definitey on our way to getting it paid off in February which will free up $435/mo of our income.

We covered derivatives and hedges in class yesterday. So now all this "Hedge fund" stuff makes a bit more sense to me. I have to admit it, learning about all this is fun to me. I'm learning what the terms futures, options, and hedges really mean so when I watch the news the information is more meaningful to me.

3 Responses to “My grocery shopping regimen”

  1. reginaastralis Says:
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    I like your idea for grocery planning.

  2. LuckyRobin Says:
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    Sounds like a good plan. I was going through my spice cupboard the other day and found I also had three bottles of chili powder (and turmeric, and ginger, and cumin).

  3. thriftorama Says:
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    An Excel spreadsheet? That is hard core!

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