My grocery list from 2019 vs the one on my fridge right now
Back in 2019 I was spending about $720 a month on food for me and my wife, and I remember thinking that was just what it cost. Last week I added up our receipts for March and we came in at $410, and the weird part is we eat better now. The shift happened roughly two years ago when I started writing the meal plan on a whiteboard before I ever walked into the store, so nothing goes in the cart unless it's already got a job that week. My wife still jokes about the binder of old lists I keep in the junk drawer, but flipping back through them is how I caught that we were buying the same spices four times a year. What's the one habit that actually moved your grocery number, not the coupon stuff, the boring stuff?