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Originally Posted by mturnidge
I think realistically $300/month including diapers ($40/month) is a good number for us, but hubby thinks it should be lower. I have enough rice, flour, sugar, instant potatoes to last me several months, but I think we spend about $40/month on meat alone (from Costco because it's way cheaper). I really do need to cut back on the crap I buy though because I always buy too many snacks. I KNOW I need to plan menus ahead of time but my problem is I can't seem to think of 2 weeks of meals to make. I hate cooking. lol I think I'm going to go digging through the forum for all those recipes that have popped up here.
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I don't want to sound like I was being disrespectful to my DH but we did have this problem at one point in our budgeting journey. I asked him to do the shopping for a couple weeks. His opinion on this changed immediately once he saw how much stuff costs in the store and had to stay within that number he wanted.
He wasn't willing to shop around town for the best prices either. So from then on he didn't really complain about how much I was spending for groceries!
He went with me a couple weeks ago and was shocked at how much stuff has gone up. But I told him I'm doing ok with the amount I have.