Quote Originally Posted by grey View Post
I'm just saying - maybe there's another way to cut costs somewhere so you can have the $4 eggs?
I'm a big believer in this. Quality food is important to me in so many ways. I don't buy eggs or meat from the grocery store and yet our bill is still ~$120 weekly for just two of us. (Now that we won't be buying organic milk anymore either, it'll go down by $5 a week.) What I do buy is expensive and I'm willing to pay it even if it means cutting back in other areas. We don't take vacations, we don't buy fancy clothes, we only have smart phones because our work pays for them, our cars have over 100K miles on them and we go out on the town *maybe* once every six months...but I will not cut corners on food.

Americans have gotten so used to cheap food (and gas) that it's really hard to comprehend that in most places on this planet, a family's food budget is often 30-50% of their total budget. Here in America, I think it's like 10% on average or something crazy like that. I'm all about shifting it and helping my health, the local economy, the planet and my personal satisfaction along the way.