![]() While eating out does save on groceries, it costs much more than groceries. ![]() It would be interesting to see the percentages and/or dollar amounts for the breakdowns. Date nights and eating out as a family count as discretionary entertainment expenses, and realy, so does fast food. It might be helpful to have a new budget category for entertainment. I guess my question is…for this family of six, what are some practical things to raise that gets the most food for the cost of raising it? These are good things, but they will have to wait until I get food consumption under control first. But the point is, I must CONCENTRATE on groceries because reducing our food costs…though rather boring…is going to net us better savings than doing something like making alternative power, or heating my home a better way. To get a dairy cow, and all that to make up for ice cream purchases, would be more costly than just buying the ice cream. Granted, if we grew a ton of potatoes, we would inevitable eat a lot more of potatoes, because it is available to eat, but some food choices would not be that easy. That is hardly an easy task as it first seems to be though. I mean 25% of my expenses is buying food! ![]() What this pie chart really shows is, I need to concentrate on producing more of my own food. It is this, even if I had alternative power, and “free” heat, I would only save 4% of my money. I am not sure if anyone can see it readily in the snap shot of my expenses, in this case a pie chart of my expenses for the year, but it is there if you look. I just updated my budget while in the midst of major power outage, and so as I posted on here about alternative power, and heating my home, my budget showed me a truth that I did not see on my own. In the short term, using a condom kind of robs some pleasure from the act, just like it is not a lot of fun to go through receipts and logging them into my Excel Spreadsheet, but it is still worth doing. It does not take money away from anyone, it simply allows them to use what money they do have more wisely. Just like a condom keeps a person from getting high medical bills from having babies or other health issues, so too does a budget. That sounds so counterintuitive a budget equating to freedom, but it is so true. Let’s face it, no one really likes using either, but it gives a person a lot of freedom if they do. However, it is true, budgets are like using condoms. Well I admit that is a topic title that kind of grabs a person’s attention…Permies Click-Bait if there ever was such a thing.
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