Our average monthly grocery expenditure is about $800... maybe a little more. This ALSO translates into just a little less than our Christmas budget. Money's tight right now, so Hubby asked if we could live off our pantry food storage for a month and only buy essentials (milk, sometimes bread). I thought about this, and think it might be possible to live normally (i.e. not shit+fan eating, which would be sparse and probably boring) for a month based on what we have.
We've got 8 roaster chickens in our freezer. We're totally out of ground beef (a household staple), so I probably will pick up a few pounds of that soon. But we do have frozen hamburger patties and plenty of frozen fish. The chickens give us 2 dozen eggs a week, so we're good there, too.
My pantry is fully stocked with rice, pasta, soups, canned veggies and canned fruit, as well as baking essentials like flour and sugar. We only have a few potatoes, so we'll eat those first and then hit the shelf-stable stuff.
I suspect we'll end up eating a lot of soup and homemade bread (which I love anyway), tons of quiche, as well as so much roast chicken that we'll be ready to lay our own eggs.
But it'll be an interesting experiment to see if we really can go for a month without any major grocery shopping trips.
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we did a full month last year in march, a very lean time of the year, and it was interesting to do so, I have been currently eating out of our pantry for the past two months, with any loss leaders being picked up to date going to a certain area and not being allowed to use them at the moment.
Good luck, and if you can find the time I hope you can do weekly updates on how its going? I look forward to hearing all about it.
Ps, Happy Thanksgiving!
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