I've had some friends ask me if I ever go over my grocery budget, and the answer is Yes and No! I know it's hard to think of spending only $300 month with a family of four, but it IS possible. In fact, I try very hard to spend less than that every month and I have done so with much ease. Overages are most often put towards our debt snowball, except for months where I need to re-stock certain staples.
So YES because: This month [9/15 thru 10/14] was one of those months. I had to restock on meat and TP this month and both tend to make a pretty big dent in the budget.
Here is my final spending for [9/15 through 10/14]
- Can you tell I don't really care for Walmart? I spend the most and get the least there. Their "rollbacks" are not all that great and they have not been very coupon friendly. Items I buy there will usually not have coupons or at the very least, the fewest of coupons.
- Items in green were FREE transactions. I love seeing these on a monthly basis.
- I used last months overage of $55 for this month because I knew I would have to plan for restocking.
- Even with buying more I only spent $18 over and still saved $36 dollars that will go towards our debt snowball
- We did eat out this month...we wanted to treat ourselves. Yes, eating out comes out of the grocery budget. So if we didn't eat out, we really only would have been ~$4 over, but I'm still very happy with this outcome
Q&A- My truths, My Myths to be continued in Part 2....
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