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Pogomogo_ t1_jachtaw wrote

We budget $610 for two adults and an infant. Last year our monthly avg was $478. But we like to budget conservatively just incase. We don't eat out or order in very much and prefer cooking at home. We absolutely plan weekly meals and do our shopping on Sunday for produce and staples, but typically do a COSTCO run once a month for our backstock items like pasta, flour, paper products/toiletries, and other things that last. We pay attention to meat sales and will buy up to like 6 or 8 lbs at a time for good sales, then portion it out and freeze in 1lb amounts.

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questionsbecause OP t1_jachwr5 wrote

how do you portion and freeze? What type of storage?

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Pogomogo_ t1_jacl41h wrote

We have a scale and weigh things like ground beef. Chicken breast I try to buy the packages that are close in qty and lbs, so I can make it easy, one breast per meal is close to a lbs. We have deli containers and use plastic wrap sometimes so it doesn't take up too much space, but just our normal fridge freezer. We recently moves to a house out of our condo, so we have a basement finally where we store our shelf stable items. I bake all our bread, so we buy flour in bulk 25lbs bags that sit in containers, making loaves as we need.

Edit: Wife will make large batches of freezer meals for quick meal night,s like 4 lbs of bolognese and separate into 1lbs portions that can be a quick 1lbs pasta night. Or make soup dishes that can be poured over rice/quinoa to make it go farther.

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