So, I order about the same in groceries in every month. My cooking repertoire is limited and we have a tiny apartment. I own one pot and one pan and after working all day and cleaning house and paying bills cooking is exhausting so I cheat a lot. It's the same stuff every week. We're a family of 2, one adult and one ten year old, and it's about $350-$400 a month. I know from hanging around here that's pretty high but it could also be affected by the cost of living in the area. There's a few things I could cut but... I don't think it should be that high? Here's what I normally buy:

Weekly:

• 2 gallons of milk (we eat cereal every morning and our water sucks)
• 1 40oz container of juice
• Fresh fruit (usually 2 bananas, 2 pears, 2 apples, and 2 stone fruit)
• Yogurt (sales and coupons determine amount, usually not more than 10)
• 2 packs of Pepperoni (favorite snack)
• Fresh vegetables (usually a bag of brussel sprouts, some green beans and asparagus)
• 1 frozen dinner, like Bertoli's, so I don't have to cook every night.

Bi-Weekly:

• 1-2 boxes of cereal (sales and coupons)
• Meat (what's on sale, usually pork and chicken)
• 1 box of apple sauce squeezee dohickeys
• $5 bag of oranges
• $5 frozen pizza
• Bread
• Pack of cheese sticks
• 4 pack of easy mac

Monthly

• 2-3 multi packs of snacks, like goldfishes and cheezits
• 40 pack of fruit gummies
• 1 box of ramen

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There's usually an incidental or two on there like a pack of noodles, bottle of olive oil, etc. but that's the bulk of it. Snack week is usually around a hundred, and $80 the rest. I know I could toss the craptastic snacks, frozen meals, and switch to frozen vegetables (which would make me very sad but whatever). I need to order meat more carefully too, it's usually huge value packs that are on sale and I get tricked into paying $1.87 a lb but only going through like 2/3 of it. We just bought water bottles and decided we'll be consuming refrigerated not so great tap water so milk and juice will go down. I'm in the PDX area, which I know is a little higher cola area. None of the websites for comparing cola are giving me real insight into why I'm paying so much, which makes me think I'm doing it wrong?