So I’m just one dude and 10k a year just on food seems incredibly high. I don’t go out that often, ~$1600 was at restaurants. I’m not really sure what I’m doing wrong while shopping at grocery stores and want to track grocery purchases better. The store I typically go to doesn’t have online receipts to use.
I’m wondering what kind of apps are available for tracking grocery expenditures that Lemmings would recommend? It would be nice to be able to go back and check prices/sizes of things too, so what is being shrinkflated/skimpflated
I keep a running Google sheet on my phone, and add prices as I buy stuff at the grocery store. I have a core skeleton template with things that I buy every week, and then I add my planned meals and anything I have written down that I need.
It helps to keep impulse spending down, and track costs per meal. Grocery costs have really increased in my area, though. It feels like they’ve doubled in the last two years.