Good times

I'm not sure where it all goes to be honest, we are starting to track it closer this year due to how high it seems. I was lumping all food into that total, whatever my credit card spit back as groceries and restaurants. We were shopping at Kroger and Sam's Club primarily, since Kroger is the only thing close to us, however, we have recently switched to the local Target. Their meat is considerably cheaper, and usually cooks up better and their produce is also cheaper and lasts close to twice as long as Krogers. The best part is, you order online and they bring it all to your car! Super convenient. We eat dinner out at a sit down joint occasionally, maybe twice a month tops, but we do grab lunches and quick dinners occasionally. Our kids are both into sports and have practice 5 days a week, they get home from the bus stop at 4:45, which is also when I get home from work, and 2 of the days each week they both have to be at their practices by 5:30, so it's cutting it close as is. We try to cook at home those early start days, but it's hard to squeeze a meal in unless we crock pot something, so we do hit Jimmy Johns or Subway and eat in the car instead of at home. That adds up fast, 3-4 sandwiches at either place is easily $25-30, do that 3-4 times a month, there's an easy hundred bucks plus. Breakfasts are usually eggs, which are now insanely priced and we easily go through 3-4 gallons of milk a week. Somehow we drop an easy $350-400 a month at Sam's in addition to that as well.
ok, i see how yours is forming
the number i gave you was only groceries but it sounds like your 2K includes fastfood and eating out

if i were to figure that number out we would be a bit closer i think



the days of the dollar footlong are well behind us

when me and the wife started dating we would pick up a bag of burgers from hot-n-now, i believe it was 5 burgers and 5 fries for 5 bucks

having said all that, the money we use for "meals not cooked at home" comes out of a different account altogether
im not the greatest at budgeting so i use 5 different accounts for all of it, 6 if you count the credit card


i have not darkened the door of a target store since they decided it was ok for perverts to use the little girls room, but we do the same thing with meijers, do all my shopping on the phone and pick it up when it is convenient for us...which works out to once a week, usually on monday

we only need 2 gallons of milk during that time

how does your boy like the swim team ?
i got a feeling my middle girl would do real well at that