I am always astounded when reading Financial Facelift in The Globe on Saturdays.
Yes, people profiled have money. But the food and incidentals spending floors me, as well as what they pay for cellular and media services.
I don't argue that food is getting more expensive. We eat less red meat these days . Ground beef only when on sale. Roast beef about maybe 4 times year, when on sale. More on sale chicken and pork. More rice less potatoes. Bone up when basics go on sale in the flyer. Do not buy boxed and prepared meals. Cook our own meals. Restaurants only on a family birthday if it is just us eating.
Will dine out when socializing.
Do host dinner parties regularly ( pre covid). It is way cheaper way to get the friends together than everyone at a restaurant where the alcohol bill will kill ya. .
I do a route usually Sunday mornings dumpster shopping. One holds day old buns from a deli place, one for the Saturday papers: sun, star, globe, spec and NYT one usually at least 30 empty beer cans, One sometimes has discards from a Shoppers.
The SDM was a gold mine two weeks a go. Looked like a skid of frozen goods got bumped and an ice cream container oozed its syrup over everything. I fished these items out, and wiped them with a dish rag when It got home. It has been below -5, all the time the stuff was in dumpster before I snagged it ( likerally, like with a gardening hoe)
So no worry about spoilage, and stuff is all in date.
6 frozen pizzas, 5 boxed chicken and fish items, lasagna, kd. ( who buys pre-made frozen kd - it is beyond me!) Plus about 9 Bryers ice cream containers.
So for past two weeks and week to come it has only been tomatoes, yogurt, green pepper, and the like on the grocery store trips.
