Reply #20: You sound like an exceptionally savvy [View All]

[SheilaT]

shopper.

Preparing foods more or less from scratch as you're describing is also important.

But up in the original post Joel Berg found that he could no longer afford a piece of fruit each day. I wonder what he was buying and fixing.

I am currently on a pretty tight food budget. Fortunately I like to cook and like you I'm willing to eat the same meal a couple of days in a row. The hardest thing about my tight budget is that buying spices can be tricky.