I did a "little" bit of grocery shopping on Friday. I had read on a group I am part of on Facebook, about how some couples only spend $50 a week on their grocery shopping. Now granted these guys were in the States, but there isn't a "cat in hell's chance," of that happening here in Canada.
So I thought I would show you what I got and how much it cost here in Canada. I popped into two stores and I picked up extra snack foods, as I had the girls sleep over on the weekend and they need to eat hourly otherwise they may starve 🙄
The first store was Zehrs, which is a President's Choice/Loblaws brand store and quite pricy.
This is what I picked up. I took advantage of an Oikos/Danone yogurt promotion as I had coupons and there were bonus points which added up to $6 in coupons used, and 13,000 bonus points, which I will use at a later date for $13 worth of free groceries. Again the Knorr products worked out at half price with the bonus points. The large boxes of Oats n' Honey granola bars were $4.44 a box, super deal. That bag of milk (4 litres) was $6.25 haven't seen it cheaper recently.
This is what it cost. 1000 PC points = $1 off your groceries when you redeem them. I have over 87,000 saved up. I'll wait for a bonus redemption to cash them in.
This is what I got at the second store, which is Metro and again quite a pricy store. Again they have a points system, so managed to get some bonus points. I have just started collecting points there. I am thinking 100 points = $1 off your groceries when you redeem them.
This is what it cost:
Overall the total for both stores came to nearly $126 and as I said that isn't a full shop. I could make it last a week for us using nothing else in the house I guess, as we are well stocked up on yogurts, so that would be good for breakfast. We could have crackers and or bagels for lunch and fruit. There is salad, eggs, deli meat, pasta and sauce for supper, and granola bars for snacks. It would have to be water to drink.
However, realistically that ain't happening...LOL We have plenty of other foods in the house.
Are you finding grocery prices shooting up where you live?
7 comments:
It would be unkind to compare UK and Canada food prices at present, especially with the new tariffs.
I reduced our grocery budget by going back to the foods my Granny would have bought and cooked from basic ingredients, plain meat and fish, full fat dairy produce, fruit, and plenty of seasonal vegetables, porridge, oats, flour, etc. for all of our baking. The breadmaker soon paid for itself. I keep a well stocked pantry and we have the advantage of a freezer to store portions when meat or fish is reduced price or on offer. We grow some fruit and keep a few hens in our small garden. I use the British recipes and quantities from the 1940s which gave us such good health.
How does one operate a "bag" of milk?? 🤔
they come in three bags, and you insert a bag into a special jug and snip a corner off the top. I will do a post later in the week to show you.
Nellie, that sounds like a perfect plan to me.
Food prices here (Ontario) are insane. We are only two people and do not eat "fancy", I don't feel the need to buy name brand products, but it can still be ridiculous how much it costs. I rarely shop at a Loblaws store anymore. I go to Food Basics. I also have my own garden which helps a lot right now. -Jenn
I'm grateful that I'm not trying to raise a family with the grocery prices we have. We skated perilously close to the edge the whole time the kids were growing up, always too much month at the end of the money. I don't think we could do it now, I'd have to be at work full time and send the kids to school, neither option was good at that time with autistic/ADHD etc kids.
I know there's a difference between Canadian and US currency, but don't know much about it. All I know is I never have enough currency. :)
I can't imagine only spending $50/week. Our budget tries to stick close to $500/month which is a lot more than that. Some months it's really hard to stick to the budget though. Our numbers include things like toilet paper and such because we usually buy those at the same time as the groceries, so the actual food costs would be less. We don't eat much in the way of prepared foods and never buy things like pop or potato chips. We might buy a bag of chips a couple times a year. We also tend to buy the same things all the time so on that basis I think our budget will be increasing by an additional $100/month. My latest horror over rising costs comes as we want to buy small canning jars to revamp our spice storage system. They used to be under $10 for a case and now they're over $20.
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