Our Food Budget
Our grocery and restaurant budget for April was set at $800. You may think that this is not very frugal, but relative to what we were spending before - $1200/month - you will see that it is a drastic reduction! Now, I hadn’t realized until recently that we were spending that much money each month on food. I knew it was a lot but had thought it was more like $1000/month. And with food prices increasing so much these days it seemed prudent to trim away some of this expense.
So far so good. It is already April 24 and we have only spent $660. A lot of our savings has come from not going out to lunch and instead eating left-overs, and not doing going out to eat once a week. We did go out to eat once this month but we had a $50 gift card to the restaurant, courtesy of our Chase Rewards card. Nice! I’ll write more about how I finally discovered how much we were really spending on food in a later post.
