LIVE TODAY! Inflation Proof Your Grocery Budget: Know The REAL Cost! Grocery Budget Audit
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- If you're eager to slash your grocery bill and inflation proof your grocery budget, it's crucial to understand the true cost of your groceries. In today's LIVE grocery budget audit video, we delve into a viewer's grocery shopping habits and food bill, looking for ways to improve. We will reveal hidden strategies to save money on everyday groceries and fortify your budget against inflation.
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My childhood home atmosphere was tense with daily arguing and LOUD talking between my parents. I’m in my 7th decade and I still get anxious when people raise their voice.
I'm 35 and have the same issue. I just take the time to make sure in my home space where me and my children live is a safe space, careful who I bring in. Hope your in a safe space and just know you are loved and your kind heart is needed in this sometimes dark world.
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What a lovely response!
TY.💜
Fight or flight is a real thing with PTSD😢
So sorry for your trauma, I'm sure it's a daily battle. I've learned I have to turn the volume way up for some TH-camrs & way down for others. You could also skip the video & just read through the comments. Praying for you.
If you buy bullion cubes in the Hispanic isle in the grocery store it is way cheaper than if you buy it in the soup isle and IT'S THE EXACT SAME THING. The only difference is the ones in the Hispanic isle have Spanish/English writing on the package. The ingredients are the same.
Our Walmarts discontinued the Hispanic isle now they stock the items in different parts of the store🤯 I can’t find the bouillon in the store.
@@leahbuchholz8556have you tried looking on the Walmart app? I can usually find which aisle things are on when I’m in the store.
@@leahbuchholz8556if they still sell it in the store you may be able to look it up and they will show the aisle location for that particular store. I have some that for some items I couldn't find. May help if it is accurate.
These audits are so eye-opening. I'm a shopping pro now. I only spend $50 per month now. Thank you.
I think it would be great if you go back, say 3 months from now, and see how these people you are auditing are doing now.
Our daughter has severe allergies.
She is allergic to carrots, potatoes, SOY! Among a whole list of foods.
Our doctor that treats her said NOT to buy shredded cheese.
It is covered with potato starch.
However, we don’t mind shredding cheese, we actually like it better.
We didn't have paper towels when I was growing up...we didn't miss them...because we didn't have them
I've always included groceries, households, personal care, & dog food in my grocery bill. I buy most of it at the grocery store or market.
Wow! Is it not expensive?
I purchase all of those items out of my grocery budget, as well. The only difference for me is thar it t is cat food rather than dog food
@Myfavorites877 Are you asking if the market is expensive? Depends on what you buy.
Paper towels aren’t sanitized or germ free either.
Love that we are focusing on groceries .. love this series.. so happy you're back Tawra.. 🥰
I always use the free newspaper to clean windows and drain fried food, we have face cloths for napkins etc. I make my own bread ( the overnight one ) for garlic bread, I make pasta from scratch, roasted tomatoes for sauce. Water and vinegar for cleaning, old sheets cut up for the bathroom sink cleaning from the thrift store.
Good job!
I have learned to take out a few meals worth of meat out all at once and put in the refrig. It takes it a day or two to defrost and then it's still good for a day or so more. And for those days when I lost track of meal plan I have bags of pre-browned ground beef for some quick sloppy joes or whatever. Now adding precooked chicken for last minute enchiladas or some of that green chili we like now. Guess where I learned those nifty tricks.
According to my family I was born frugal. My brother liked to say when we were young, that I could turn two cents into a dime.
Maybe you could put together a playlist of how to shop the weekly ads, making a meal plan from that and starting a price book so you know when to stock up. I know I have a handful of baking recipes and probably about twenty meals that I am always stocked up for.
I have worked with young adults, and they are so lost on this. You have to show them the math and make them understand what they are paying for convenience.
Love the grocery audits ❤
Every Sunday evening or Monday morning, I take at least 2 or 4 items out of the freezer to use up during that weeks meals. It can be 1 or 2 meats, 1 or 2 containers of leftovers, etc. Works for me to use up the freezer packages so they aren't forgotten.
I like that idea . Thank you for sharing .
Loved the new format. Actually you do is great. And no you were not yelling. You are passionate. Thanks so much much love to you and yours. GOD BLESS YOU ALL from Indiana
We have always used left over hotdog, hamburger and bread. The older dryer buns make great garlic toast.
I've got a solution for the "yelling". Turn down your volume people! I don't need an audit because you taught me so well and I thank you so much! I really enjoy these videos though.
I can make my own garlic toast on cheap hamburger buns. Its good!
Tawra - I think I’ve been watching too many audit shows- I dreamed you came to my house to do an audit. Haven’t lived in that house for over 10 years 🤪🙄
LOL That's great!
Love the grocery audits.
Hello Tawra, Love the budget audit videos! From what I hear and see, it seems Lynn may want to do a pantry/refrigerator/freezer challenge for herself and her family to use up what she already has. I am doing this for my husband and myself and I am surprised to find out that we have way more food than we thought we had. It has made many meals for months without shopping, except for some perishables. For pantry/refrigerator/freezer I put like items together. I always date and move oldest up front for better organization. I also have an email reminder to check all my pantry/refrigerator/freezer items so I do not waste any food.
Hope you and Mike feel better soon. And yet still doing a live show. You guys are great Americans! God bless.
Amen shopping is EXHAUSTING under any circumstance but when you have chronic illnesses it readily does you in. We use Walmart pickup
Googled this. It may help with the costs at the store. Will need to keep good track of receipts. Hope it is helpful.
For people who have a service animal specifically for disability tasks, the cost of ownership - i.e. cost of buying, training and maintaining a service animal - is considered a tax deductible medical expense.Feb 27, 2023
In regards to the rags: I like using the cotton T shirts for rags. It is soft and seems to clean better than paper towels.
I don’t think you are yelling at all. You are making sure people are listening because you are educating. Love your show!
I know these audits are to help show people where they can save, but i also would love seeing success stories. I think we can all learn collectively from both ideas! Tawra, you were not yelling! Even though i know you get so threadbare with people. Great video. ❤
We absolutely include toilet paper, paper towels, tissues and cleaning items. By most in bulk so we don't need to buy them often. I also often use rags in place of paper towels, but use both
Great show. So glad I was able to join it live.
I only have Walmart, Albertsons and Save Mart in my small town in California. Albertsons and Save Mart are ridiculously expensive and most of their sale items are stupid expensive. But I watch the ads and stock up on items that have a good sale price. I live in the mountains but it’s the terrain is considered high desert. Some of the trees here are stunning. Some are very yellow, some have fire red leaves. So beautiful.
My mother in law sd. you can also use newspaper for toilet paper, and to wrap food already put in storage bag to stay colder
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I have a bedtime ritual of meal planning for the next day and taking out what I need for it so it's ready to go.
I grew up on a farm. My family grew their own food. Gardens, fruit trees and berry bushes. Also chickens, pigs and beef. I loved living off the land. I’m too old to do that anymore but I would if I could. I still grow some vegetables myself. “You can take the girl out of the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the girl.”😆
I did daycare for 28 years. I bought cheap white washclothes from walmart. I use them just like a papertowel and throw them in a bucket. Even though I'm retired now their is still a bucket in the kitchen and every bathroom. There is a "newer" nicer stack for people to use in the guest bathroom. I think its more sanitary than a hand towel.
I was raised with this bucket system. It got me through three kids in cloth diapers without odor.
I have a basket next to the bathroom sink full of hand towels (wash cloths) and some guests still use my bath towel to dry their hands… am I the only one who thinks that’s just nasty.
Love these budget meals
I make a list for hygiene things to buy from Dollar Tree. I never buy these items at the grocery store. Only place they sell 2.5 gallon zip lock bags 6 ct $1.25. I use them to keep my large flour tortillas fresh.
When I was in my teens, the times my parents & I would go out to eat on a Friday - every single time we went to the restaurant that had garlic bread on their food bar…the ends of the bread were ALWAYS there.
Tawra, I just love your personality and infectious laughter. Love the keeping it real and can-do attitude. Where there is a will, there is a way.
My local thrift store does 2-3 (depending on the day) grocery bags of clothes for $5. When I buy my kids' clothes, if there's more room in the bags, I add the ugly t-shirts that nobody wants (stuff like the free shirts for donating blood in 1999😂) and then cut them up into my rags. I treat my "rags" like paper towels and usually just throw them away.
Awesomeness Truespeak Thank You For All You Do 🔥🇺🇸🆙
I pull out half a week of food at a time. Sunday night I pull out freezer food for Mon-Wed and Wed night I pull out Thurs-Sun.
I’m from Saskatchewan Canada and I was in Manhattan, California and Idaho this summer. Even with the dollar exchange rate I found the food prices all very similar to what I spend here at home
Every Canadian I've talked to who's traveled here has said it's the same or cheaper in Canada. :-)
Got great deals this week at Safeway in Phoenix Arizona. Boneless skinless chicken breast 97 cents pound limit 10 lbs. Strawberries 16 oz 77 cents limit 2, Large eggs 18 count $1.27 limit 2 all with digital coupon plus free 10 lbs potatoes were $5.99 regularly. Safeway frozen pizza 35 oz $1.97 limit 2. There are good deals out there. Milk was on sale 1/2 gallon 99 cents limit 5 with digital coupon.
Safeway in Tucson prices were the same. Went in on that chicken deal and the frozen pizzas.
@karenandrew5467 @eclairtreo Yes, I also live in Tucson Az and got all the same deals
#1 Yes, our family's grocery budget is also a household products budget all in one. It's generally $ 260 to $280 a week, occasionally more if we need something extra.
Yes, these grocery audits are great. You're one of the few truly frugal people on TH-cam. I feel like you are talking to me when you say to stop buying food til Thanksgiving. This month I'm trying to just buy milk.
Huge money saving tip if you cats. Buy pellet bedding, the kind used for horses, at any farm supply store. You can find it for $7 - $9 for 40 pound bag!!! Mix it in with your regular cat litter. You’ll save a ton of money, because cat litter costs so much more. I do a 50-50 mix, but you can also do 75-25, or whatever works for your cats. It clumps up the cat urine just like regular litter does.
I have never heard of this! Thank you! I will be searching for this product.
Alarms are my best friend. I have to set alarms for taking out food in the morning or night before for suppers. Yes. Every day that is needed. Some days, there's plenty of leftovers so we just eat that lol but I totally get it Lynn. You got this!!! 💙
I fill my large travel mug almost up to the top with ice and water and add a splash of Sam's Club diet soda for flavor and fizz. One 2L bottle of soda at $1.25 lasts about 2-3 weeks. It saves a lot of money and wear and tear on the kidneys.
I may try that with my favorite soda.
@@vbo9872 The people at work laugh at me but the people at work are sick and broke and I'M NOT!
Loving the new format! Makes it easier to see how to apply the info. My mother shopped the way you do. She would get large cuts of meat on sale and then use her electic knife to cut it down and freeze it.
Re 'yelling' - I never took it as yelling... I figured it was just part of your personality. You're matter of fact, to the point, and add a touch of humor. I've noticed that really isn't very common anymore, so maybe ppl take it as yelling cause they arent used to it? It reminds me a bit of my mother, so I'm not put off by it and actually prefer it.
Dollar tree has Secret deodorant and name brand tooth pastes. The Secret deodorant is smaller but you could buy 2-3. Much cheaper than the 9.00.
Sorry I’m full of suggestions today lol. Set a day to shop your pantry. Plan all or a few meals each week from what you have in your pantry. Example, Mondays pull all freezer, canned items etc off pantry/fridge shelf, bring it up to your kitchen fridge to thaw, canned item on kitchen counter or shelf. then items are handy for the week. And you will know what items you need before going into the store. Hope that idea helps
Cheap Cat litter - look up how to do it with cedar pellets from tractor supply. It's so cheap and smells so much better than kitty litter.
Tara your voice is an animated it's your beautiful personality that may everybody seems to think you're yelling but you're not you have compassion and empathy and reaction in your voice so people don't understand that when they're monotone
100% agree. Love her personality. I do think the mic levels are pretty hot for the distance. If they were adjusted, the volume levels would improve. Keep it real, keep the faith.
I feel Tawra is very passionate about the message she is getting across to help all of us live well and be solvent. Love her work ❤
I buy canned diced tomatoes and run it through the food processor with onion, garlic and herbs to make my own tomato or pizza sauce.
I take the heels of bread and make bread pudding, croutons, bread crumbs, etc.
Buy a soda stream instead of cases of sparkling water
garlicbread2 I toast a regular slice of bread add butter and garlic powder don't heat the oven for a slice of toast /what are you spending on electricity
I hate when I do pickup because some of my cans are dented
A friend of mine who is a senior,says brand names are way cheaper at Dollar Tree.
Sharen
You are correct about paper towels. I have been off paper towels for years. I have saved a fortune. I had decided a few years ago to invest in cloth rags for paper towels. I bought all white and do a bleach load once a week. Best decision I have ever made
We share a cabin with hubby’s brother. They asked us to replace the paper towels. I was like what? There were like 7 Costco sized rolls up there. We barely go through one a month. I totally don’t understand going through them so much. Same wit TP.
Yes, we include everything in our groceries bill.... food, toiletries, tp, vinegar, bicarb & even things like ibuprofen & vitamins. Love these audits as I'm learning a lot! Thanks to everyone who is sharing their pantries etc to help us. Awesome that you've got a new Dr that combines medicine & functional medicine, Tawra... my Dr does too. I loved the B12 injections, but then I'd crash after it wore off, so we decided it was better to go off of them. Wondering if it would help my middle son again to go back on them. Good reminder, so thank you! I'll be interested to hear how you go on LDN as we've discussed trialling that too. I hope you & Mike improve quickly. 🥰Blessings from South Australia💕🐨
I have Hashimotos and my Integrative NP put me on LDN in June 2023. It’s helped me tremendously! She tried to talk me into it for a while, and sadly I didn’t go in it sooner because it was a pharmaceutical. I do everything I can naturally, but LDN has lowered my antibodies so much! They’ve never been this low since I was diagnosed in 2016. I feel so much better and have more continual energy. It’s been a true blessing!
Also, I buy B12 2,000 mcg capsules and take 2 per day, and my B12 now stays at a good level.
@@Jesus_Saves_Sinners We tried that but my body doesn't process B12 properly & stayed in my body & made me sicker. I'm glad it's helping you. 🥰Blessings from South Australia💕🐨
1 If it is sold in my grocery store, I consider it groceries - food or not.
2 Garlic bread is so simple, I always make it at home.
I go through a roll of paper towels about every 5 weeks.
Refrigerating tomatoes kills about half of the flavor. Don’t refrigerate tomatoes. 🍅
As far as remembering to thaw… I have an old Nokia phone that I have kept for its loud alarm. I would add a reminder on that phone to Thaw Dinner. That way, you’d have a daily reminder to thaw whatever is needed for the next night’s meal. 😋
Regarding pet food, you get what you pay for. Also, many pet health issues are related to diet and nutrition. I have not checked the label on their dog food, but Blue Wilderness cat food is a good quality choice, and my little 🐈⬛ seems to approve.
How in the world does someone go through a roll of paper towels a day??? 🤔
Many cookie recipes can be baked in a pan like squares, saves work of making individual cookies.
34:52 Paper Towels: Buy those Blue Shop Towels to clean windows. One paper towel sheet will clean several windows. One roll lasts me a year!
Hi. These new videos are really interesting - keep going, I love it. It can be very helpful to see what you can switch out some intems to, and substitutes or what to cut out. Very relatable in some cases.
My biggest "problem" would be to STICK TO THE LIST when shopping and coming up with cheap meal ideas.
Shop the pantry first.....then keep list of what to replace when on sale
It would be interesting if you are able to shop with someone with their grocery list. It's always helpful to know what to look for.
I think the block cheese tastes better and melts better than the pre shredded. I still do buy shredded when I don’t want to shred my cheese.
My husband calls bologna "round steak". 😄
1. But I’ll start making it at home. Thank you
I cut my loaves into 3 layers. I use the tops and bottoms for french bread pizza and the middle slice I use for garlic bread. We got a great deal for under $0.50 each. My husband brought home 20! They got prepped and frozen for LOTS of quick lunches and bread for dinners.
great idea!
Eye of round $3.99/lb (at a restaurant supply), cook that then slice thin, so much better! I was buying Land O Frost lunch meat for my husband but that's gone up to almost $6/lb! We have invested in some food processing equipment (slicer, grinder, chamber vacuum sealer) so we are able to take advantage of buying larger pieces of meat and breaking them down ourselves.
Im so embarrassed I spend $400 CAD🇨🇦 a month on me and my 2 kids (11 & 8) I need to be on this show 🤦♀️
$400 for 3 people doesn't sound awful. Submit an application and I can take a look. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefqsqZDOEf4L9F02pz4KKMdGcVc474MT5PLtINmY_bP531SA/viewform?usp=send_form
Hi Tawra, Mike and Jill, I'm really enjoying Grocery audits and your cuts to video clip recipe and DIY's". I can feel for Lynn , and you being a fellow Fibromyte. I find it exhausting to shop so stop at Store on way home from work every day since I walk by several to get home i.e.: Dollor General, Dollar Tree Plus, Big Lots Aldie's and Wegmans, and literally have to go to all these stores to find the best and cheapest Pet food
I'm literally in the Store daily and the struggle is real for pet owners. I noticed pet food was empty shelves during the pandemic and post pandemic a long while and when it came back everywhere when in stock its crazy expensive. Wet cat canned food went up 3 times in 1- 1/2 years. Dry Kibble has tripled everywhere as well. The Stores keep saying its the Shipping Trucks, gas expense ect.. I have used ground chicken and rice for my cat. he does not like it as well but he eats it
Your just enthusiastic when you speak and It's the mic's pick up so if you find a way to adjust the pick up volume that's good. I like being able to hear you speak, better than some others video's where even having my volume up they are not well recorded. And besides, we can always lower our volume on this side too.
I get my pie filling from dollar tree.Since there is just two of us,I repackage into small one meal size portion, so I take out the size we need as we need it.
I use slightly dirty napkins or tissues for small cat messes. The tissues can be flushed. I know tmi yucky but it saves a lot on paper. Wash hands.
Knowing that she was going to walmart, she could have gotten a lot of the non-food stuff for way cheaper.
Was wondering the aame
I have fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis. I stopped eating sugar and I feel so much better. If you cut out sugar and reduce other carbs, you will be surprised on how much better you feel. Try it for two weeks and see.
Wrote that is so good you feel better asking with all my health issues I have OA ( osteoarthritis) thru our my body. That started in my early 30s.
I will try that thank you
Great show! I love these grocery audits.
I've bought texas toast bread from walmart. An made my own garlic toast.
For your book
I just had it downloaded instead of mailing the book
And yes
Would love to have someone from a Canadian comparison
I include everything in my grocery budget including otc medicine.
I rarely buy lunch meat - maybe only a few times a year. We mainly eat leftovers for lunch. If we have sandwiches we will have pbj or I make chicken salad, tuna salad, ham salad, etc.
A good dry dog food is Costco or Diamond which is at hardware, and pet supply stores. It’s right below the very expensive brands
Pasta about 125 a box unless on sale. Also ground beef in SC IS 499 pound
Tawra, Beautiful flowers on your counter!!!
Thanks so much 😊
I love your new program. 😊
#replay Yes, I include toiletries, cleaning/household/paper products in our grocery bill because we use WM grocery pickup on items not on special at other stores.
I ALWAYS love your videos and love to learn what I can to be the best steward I can, you’re always a blessing and I’m always guaranteed a good laugh in there too lol. Just want to say I love the music at the beginning, reminded me of when I was younger and they played music in the dept stores, nice memory!
I get the Pillsbury crescent rolls for 2 for $1 at Grocery Outlet often and also find the Cinnamon Rolls for a $1. You can also find the Annie’s brand cinnamon rolls for the same price.
I love these videos. I was thinking when she was talking about lunch meat, maybe she could cook and slice a couple of the items from the freezer, such as the pork roast, corned beef, beef roast, make a meat loaf and slice that if her husband and family like that. Just a thought. She could also do the same with the chicken breast and the ham left over also. Thanks for sharing your groceries Lynn, and thank you Tawra for helping with your ideas. Have a Blessed day.
at waley world can get 18 wash cloths in a bundle for 6 bucks or maybe a little more now but they are great if you need something new to use in the kitchen and work area for cleaning cloths.
We used to use cloth towels when I was growing up for wiping the dishes, there was the Dish towel, there was the dish cloth and sponge for cleaning dishes and counters. There was the bleach in the rinse water, we had a dishwasher and we had to do dishes by hand too. paper towels are so "common" that I only buy them for 6 for 6 dollars or less maybe every two months. some people in the house just use them to dry their hands! I snag them back out of the can and hide them to dry to wipe up spills.
Enjoy Branson! Don’t miss SIX their show was incredible! There is a great Amish store there too!
Ohhhh my goodness, yes! I hear all the time that I’m “lucky” to stay home and raise 11 kids… such a luxury…. Chaps my hide and I also correct them now and tell them it’s not luck, it’s strategic budgeting, not going into debt over nonsense “keeping up with the Jones’s” spending I see so many people my age and younger doing! And we have EXTRAS!!!! We don’t do car payments or consumer debt EVER.
I love Prego sauce but I also doctor it up a bit with some balsamic vinegar.
Yes, we include toiletries, pet food and the gas it takes to go in our grocery budget. Really enjoying these videos, thank you!!
I was brought up with rags, my husband paper towels….it’s a pain….. l let him buy the paper towels… I keep my rags!
That is an interest idea. I never factor in gas for that specifically.
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If it's something you regularly purchase for daily needs, I think it should count towards grocery bill.
Your flowers are beautiful
I agree!!!!and she probably can see them daily out her kitchen window growing too ❤
The sale price of ground beef is LIMIT 2!!! great price