What are you all averaging a day on food costs per child? And what is your weekly budget for food?
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$600 a month pays for all paper products, all food, formula, garbage bags, etc. My husband and I are on the keto way of eating (almost all meat/cheese/some organic veggies but not much) but that includes the higher cost of that in there, too.
It feeds 6 daycare kids all week, breakfast, lunch and 2 snacks daily, and all meals for my husband, son, and myself.
We don't buy processed crap. I couldn't do it without Aldis. Even Walmart adds an extra $200 a month to our bill.
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Originally posted by midaycare View Post$600 a month pays for all paper products, all food, formula, garbage bags, etc. My husband and I are on the keto way of eating (almost all meat/cheese/some organic veggies but not much) but that includes the higher cost of that in there, too.
It feeds 6 daycare kids all week, breakfast, lunch and 2 snacks daily, and all meals for my husband, son, and myself.
We don't buy processed crap. I couldn't do it without Aldis. Even Walmart adds an extra $200 a month to our bill.
I admire you!
I spend around $350/week for 10-12 kids. I buy a lot of organic foods and do a lot of farmer's markets. Plus, I bake most of my own breads. It's getting to be too expensive to buy organic though. We started our own garden to cut some costs and I cut back on servings too.
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Eight dcks and myself, B, L, and Snack. I usually spend 120-140 a week. That includes paper products and cleaners. I do buy my bread products at an outlet store, much cheaper than the grocery store. I admit I don't buy organic or shop Farmer's Markets.
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I spend so much more than everyone here. I don't understand how you do it. I always feel like I'm going as cheap as I can, too. For example, what yogurts do you use? What eggs? I have to buy really good yogurt - brown cow. And I do free range (not cage free) eggs. I feel like I get generic sugar, flour, canned beans... Chicken, I do buy free range or sometimes when I feel the bills are just too much, I buy conventional chicken... Do I just have to drop all that to make it work? Bread, I use Milton's whole grain. Cheese, I do buy shredded cheap cheese for the sake of time and money. Cold cuts, I buy, again, pricey ham which is like Applegate or similar - it doesn't have all the additives or anything. I do buy generic whole grain pasta and generic brown rice. I don't usually buy organic fruit and veg, too expensive. We have no Aldi's and our TJ's which people say is supposed to be equivalent, just isn't equivalent! TJs costs more than others and their produce is always bad. Help me learn the magic ways of spreading my food dollars!
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Originally posted by CalCare View PostI spend so much more than everyone here. I don't understand how you do it. I always feel like I'm going as cheap as I can, too. For example, what yogurts do you use? What eggs? I have to buy really good yogurt - brown cow. And I do free range (not cage free) eggs. I feel like I get generic sugar, flour, canned beans... Chicken, I do buy free range or sometimes when I feel the bills are just too much, I buy conventional chicken... Do I just have to drop all that to make it work? Bread, I use Milton's whole grain. Cheese, I do buy shredded cheap cheese for the sake of time and money. Cold cuts, I buy, again, pricey ham which is like Applegate or similar - it doesn't have all the additives or anything. I do buy generic whole grain pasta and generic brown rice. I don't usually buy organic fruit and veg, too expensive. We have no Aldi's and our TJ's which people say is supposed to be equivalent, just isn't equivalent! TJs costs more than others and their produce is always bad. Help me learn the magic ways of spreading my food dollars!
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Originally posted by CalCare View PostI spend so much more than everyone here. I don't understand how you do it. I always feel like I'm going as cheap as I can, too. For example, what yogurts do you use? What eggs? I have to buy really good yogurt - brown cow. And I do free range (not cage free) eggs. I feel like I get generic sugar, flour, canned beans... Chicken, I do buy free range or sometimes when I feel the bills are just too much, I buy conventional chicken... Do I just have to drop all that to make it work? Bread, I use Milton's whole grain. Cheese, I do buy shredded cheap cheese for the sake of time and money. Cold cuts, I buy, again, pricey ham which is like Applegate or similar - it doesn't have all the additives or anything. I do buy generic whole grain pasta and generic brown rice. I don't usually buy organic fruit and veg, too expensive. We have no Aldi's and our TJ's which people say is supposed to be equivalent, just isn't equivalent! TJs costs more than others and their produce is always bad. Help me learn the magic ways of spreading my food dollars!
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Originally posted by Snowmom View PostWow, that's pretty good!
I admire you!
I spend around $350/week for 10-12 kids. I buy a lot of organic foods and do a lot of farmer's markets. Plus, I bake most of my own breads. It's getting to be too expensive to buy organic though. We started our own garden to cut some costs and I cut back on servings too.
I have 12-14 kids daily and I spend roughly $150-200 a week on groceries and I also buy organic and lots of fresh farmer's market items. We also grow alot of our own too but that is usually just extras on their plate and not always a required component.
We don't eat much bread so I don't buy alot of it and I don't make it myself.
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Originally posted by Blackcat31 View PostMust be the difference between down there and up here
I have 12-14 kids daily and I spend roughly $150-200 a week on groceries and I also buy organic and lots of fresh farmer's market items. We also grow alot of our own too but that is usually just extras on their plate and not always a required component.
We don't eat much bread so I don't buy alot of it and I don't make it myself.
Organic milk for dck's alone costs me $30/week.
We recently had two new grocery stores pop up in my neighborhood and my thoughts were: "Great, maybe we'll see some deals now that there's more competition".
Nope.
Costco is my best bet here. But I really hate setting aside time to portion and freeze.
Then, when I'm buying bulk or growing foods, I'd like to can what we don't eat right away. And... that's not creditable on the FP. Neither is dehydrating foods.
So, what's the point. :/
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Originally posted by Snowmom View PostWow, seriously?!
Organic milk for dck's alone costs me $30/week.
We recently had two new grocery stores pop up in my neighborhood and my thoughts were: "Great, maybe we'll see some deals now that there's more competition".
Nope.
Costco is my best bet here. But I really hate setting aside time to portion and freeze.
Then, when I'm buying bulk or growing foods, I'd like to can what we don't eat right away. And... that's not creditable on the FP. Neither is dehydrating foods.
So, what's the point. :/
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Originally posted by Snowmom View PostWow, seriously?!
Organic milk for dck's alone costs me $30/week.
We recently had two new grocery stores pop up in my neighborhood and my thoughts were: "Great, maybe we'll see some deals now that there's more competition".
Nope.
Costco is my best bet here. But I really hate setting aside time to portion and freeze.
Then, when I'm buying bulk or growing foods, I'd like to can what we don't eat right away. And... that's not creditable on the FP. Neither is dehydrating foods.
So, what's the point. :/
I don't know how many gallons of milk you go through but we only do milk for lunch. I don't serve breakfast and it's water only for snack so that helps alot!
Originally posted by midaycare View PostOrganic milk at Aldi's is $1.99. Non organic but not treated with rsbt or whatever that is is $.99. I use 2-3 gallons a week.
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