Post your recommendations for keeping grocery costs under control.

[womanofthehills]

82. I only eat organic and ferment some of my foods

I make sourdough bread with organic flour. Have not bought store bread for 6 months. I slice the bread and freeze it and just get out a few slices at a time - plus I’m cutting way back on eating bread so it lasts longer - but my grandkids love it. Also mostly drink water and kombucha tea which I always have fermenting on my counter. I used to crave Mexican cokes, but now I crave kombucha. I make homemade sauerkraut and kefir. I buy 4 half gallons of organic milk at a time - I freeze 2. i have a homemade kefir smoothie with fruit, vitamins,a raw egg yoke-for one meal a day. I switched to the mostly carnivore/protein /fruit diet - with grass fed beef or organic chicken,fresh fruit, my own chicken eggs, a few veggies - no beans, rice, white potatoes, canned food, deserts, cereals, chips. I live in ranching country so I can buy grass fed/grass finished beef for a good price. Still - cutting out so many foods, my grocery bills are still higher. My significant other eats over a few times a week but always brings food for my dogs.