My neighbor in Council Bluffs showed me how she feeds 4 people on $60 a week and I wrote down everything

Thomas Perry · 2026-10-02T20:15:04.752348+00:00

I was carrying groceries in last month and my neighbor Deb saw my bags and asked what I paid for the whole haul, and when I said $140 she just shook her head. She invited me in and showed me her system: she buys dried beans and rice in the big bags from the Mexican grocery on 16th St, not the small ones at the chain store, and she said that alone cut her bill almost in half. She also plans meals around what's marked down that day instead of picking recipes first, which sounds obvious but I never did it. I tried it for two weeks and spent $71 instead of my usual $130, so now I'm wondering what other small changes I'm missing. Does anyone else shop the day-old and markdown bins first before planning their meals?

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