Update On Food Costs; Baking Bread; Freezer

We did it for a week on $65 for groceries and it was so stressful and not fun at all, so we quickly reverted back to our $90 a week plan with a sigh of relief.  I'm still not giving up though on striving to spend less on groceries despite all the food sensitivities.  I started baking my own bread again after learning about Calcium Propionate.   They put propionate in most bread products to preserve it and scientists now believe it is possibly being the CAUSE of Autism.  Not only is it that they possibly found the cause of Autism but they already KNOW that this stuff damages our brain - so why in the world are they putting it in bread products!?  After reading the facts about it, I could no longer give it to my children, much less myself and my husband!  So, I started baking bread again like I used to years ago and you know what, it is really easy and tastes a lot better anyway.  We were spending about $16 a month on bread, now, after accounting for cost of ingredients, we are only spending somewhere in the ballpark of $8 a month.

We purchased a small freezer and stocked up to cut our Aldi shopping trips down to twice a month, instead of weekly.  Aldi is about 20-25 minutes away and going there, shopping and coming back is tedious every week.  Kroger is just down the road, so we decided to get our fresh vegetables there and other things and save Aldi for bi-monthly trips.  We stocked up the freezer with frozen pizza, chicken nuggets, hot dogs, kielbasa, beef and chicken, vegetables, fruit and some other misc. things.