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I spent $10k on food last year. What’s good way to track grocery spending? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 11 months ago by Aquila to c/[email protected]

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So I’m just one dude and 10k a year just on food seems incredibly high. I don’t go out that often, ~$1600 was at restaurants. I’m not really sure what I’m doing wrong while shopping at grocery stores and want to track grocery purchases better. The store I typically go to doesn’t have online receipts to use.

I’m wondering what kind of apps are available for tracking grocery expenditures that Lemmings would recommend? It would be nice to be able to go back and check prices/sizes of things too, so what is being shrinkflated/skimpflated

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I hate to say it, but one way to do it is using a spreadsheet. Every time you shop, you create two new columns -- the item and it's individual price, and at the bottom the total.

At the end of the year, you can add up and graph the totals.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That was our approach, with columns for different stores to identify the better price points where we were buying an identical/equivalent item. Turns out Costco tends to have the best pricing for non-perishable items.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Oh and we only had to maintain the list for about 3-6 months to understand pricing in our area.Good luck OP!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Add a column to track how much of it you've thrown out as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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