Skirophorion 29
I would appreciate any advice people are willing to give me on how to reduce how much money I spend on groceries with minimal increase to the time and spoons I spend shopping and cooking.
The main problem here is that I buy groceries assuming I will be cooking, and I also buy frozen entrees, and then I do not simultaneously have time and spoons to cook, so what I eat is the frozen entrees. This is a ridiculous waste of money and food, but I like cooking (when I am able to) and I
really like eating food that did not spend any time in a supermarket freezer. The secondary problem is that eating frozen entrees three or four times a day seven days a week, plus an iced coffee five to seven days a week, adds up to just about what my budget says I can spend on groceries, if I stick to the cheaper lines of frozen entrees—and "groceries" is supposed to include shit like "toothpaste" and "toilet paper". The tertiary problem is that my groceries budget is in line with
the Moderate food cost from the USDA and I would like it to be in line with the Low-Cost column in that PDF.
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