Today, we are out for a more positive grocery budget outlook from yesterday’s, “ Change Your Train of Thought” and we have taken a couple of days to grip our new percentage guidelines. Now what?
Know What You Are Spending. You can’t start a grocery budget without knowing what you are already spending. What is the fun in watching it go down if you have no idea where it was in the first place?
Easy Steps,
1. Take the calendar from off the fridge and get ready to write down some numbers. Or use a blank calendar here.
2. Go online or look on your paper bank statement and write down the amounts that were spent at the grocery store on your calendar. Write the amounts on the dates that the check/debit cleared to give you a better perspective on a weekly basis.
3. Total your spending for the month or at least for the last 4-6 weeks.
The amount that you come up with from the steps above will give you your actual spending amounts.
Before couponing, how much did you spend in groceries?
Let us know in the comments.
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I spent close to $200 a week for our family and there are four of us.
I spent around $100 a week for our family and sometimes more than that because I would have to go back and forth to the store more than once a week. It just kept adding up.