I'm slowly bringing my GF around to the MMM ways. We are cleaning up her student debt, refinancing loans to lower interest (and raising payments to erase them faster), turning down the heat, second hand clothes shopping, cooking at home, and drinking at home too (in a past life, I was a bartender for 8 years).
She loves the organic milk, produce, etc. We've changed stores to Aldi, where the selection is smaller, but the prices are around half what even the discount stores have to offer. After new years, I told her we should try to spend even less. She agreed and suggested that we don't buy any groceries in January. I admit, I was apprehensive, as the kitchen is not all that large, and since we eat out less, I cook more at home. There were many items that had stacked up in the years prior to her meeting me that she bought and hadn't used. We're trying to burn thru those items so we can fit more of what we want.
But we are doing it. It's Jan 20th, and other than milk and eggs, which I have switched to "normal" non-organic (cheaper) options, We haven't spent a dime at the grocery store. The cupboards still have food. The freezer still has meat. We are starting to get to the point where dinner is no longer determined by what I want, but by what we have. I fully expect to make it to the 31st, having only bought 12 eggs and 1 gallon of milk all month.
Then the question is: how much will be left on 2/1 ?
