Cut Your Grocery Bill Challenge (Week 2)

Revealed: by Crystal Paine on January 12, 2023  |  This publish could include affiliate hyperlinks. Learn my disclosure coverage right here.

We’re kicking off the yr with an 8-week Minimize Your Grocery Invoice Problem. I’ll be sharing a weekly publish right here each Thursday with a activity or problem so that you can full/deal with that will help you weak, enhance, or general your grocery finances.

My hope is that we will all work collectively to crowd-source new concepts and contemporary inspiration to be extra considerate and intentional in our grocery budgets + hopefully avoid wasting cash and instill some practices and rules and habits that may proceed to avoid wasting us cash all through the remainder of the yr.

Final week, we talked about organising a grocery finances. For those who haven’t accomplished that problem, be sure you learn final week’s publish and comply with the instructions. That’s an important first step in chopping your grocery invoice.

Week #2: Acknowledge Your Roadblocks

This week, we’re going to speak about what would possibly maintain you again from success. I believe it’s necessary to acknowledge these issues that may make it troublesome to succeed. Not in order that we’re dwelling on the negatives or letting them be excuses, however in order that we cannot be shocked by potential roadblocks and might anticipate them and provide you with inventive options.

As an example, perhaps it’s good to eat gluten-free, you will have different allergy symptoms, you reside out within the nation, you don’t have plenty of time to put money into grocery buying, you don’t have many shops that supply offers, and so forth.

Assume via what would possibly maintain you again from succeeding. Be trustworthy. What instantly jumps to your thoughts as pushback once you consider organising a grocery finances. Why does it really feel daunting or troublesome?

My hope is that by assessing this forward of time, it’ll make it a lot simpler in the long term. Plus, I’m hopeful that by individuals being keen to share actually their struggles and potential roadblocks within the feedback on this publish, others will be capable of share concepts and encouragement if they’re in an identical scenario or have been in an identical scenario. Let’s all encourage each other with concepts and inspiration!

I had two packages of sausage within the freezer that I’ve gotten not too long ago in an amazing sale + an onion and a few cabbage I’d gotten on sale. I chopped it and sauted it…

And it made for a yummy dinner this previous week! You possibly can additionally add potatoes or serve over rice, however I had neither, so I simply made do with what I had — which is the secret round right here!

This Week’s Grocery Purchasing

I went to a distinct Kroger retailer this week than normal. I made a decision rapidly that I wasn’t a fan of it. Not solely did they not have as an amazing of a collection of markdowns, however additionally they didn’t have good signage. Various the weekly digital offers weren’t marked with indicators.

After which, after I obtained out to the automotive, I used to be excited about how my complete was greater than I used to be anticipating it to be. I began trying intently at my receipt and realized that a number of objects had been price-marked incorrectly. That they had sale indicators on them from final week’s offers… however the gross sales weren’t nonetheless operating. So I paid full value or considerably greater than I assumed I used to be going to pay on 6 objects as a result of this — which is why my complete was greater than I assumed.

That mentioned, I’ve gotten so many nice offers at Kroger over time and it was partially my fault for not trying on the advert or paying nearer consideration and simply trusting the signage. So I made a decision not to return and ask for a refund — as a result of I had Kierstyn with me, I used to be already out to the automotive with all my groceries loaded in, and I wanted to get residence.

However let this be a great reminder of two issues: 1) Not each buying journey is an incredible expertise. You win some, you lose some. However you’ll by no means win should you don’t attempt. 2) I ought to have checked the advertisements and checked the costs extra fastidiously as they rang up as we speak. I often do, however I didn’t pay as shut consideration as we speak.

For those who’re , you may see my full grocery buying journey video + all the costs I paid within the video right here. (I completely spaced and forgot to get an image with all of my groceries laid out!)

Our complete was $86 for all of the groceries within the video, so we’re $14 below our $100 weekly grocery finances. I’ll roll the $14 over to subsequent week.

Week #2 Venture: Acknowledge Your Roadblocks & Share Them

Are you in for the Minimize Your Grocery Invoice Problem? In that case, I’d love so that you can depart a remark and let me know what your roadblocks are with regards to organising and sticking with a grocery finances.

If in case you have a couple of minutes, I’d love so that you can learn via among the different feedback and reply with concepts, options, or encouragement you will have for among the commentors who’re struggling. Thanks, prematurely, for serving to to present others sensible concepts for profiting from their scenario!