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Originally Posted by Tapioca
You can save money by cooking, but if you want to eat well at home, it can cost serious money.
We like wild salmon and when they were on sale last month, we bought over 10 to keep in our chest freezer so that we could eat one per week over the summer months. Even though they were on sale, they weren't cheap at about 12-15 bucks per fish. Well worth it the price though.
It's the same if you eat lots of red meat or a bottle of wine once or twice per week (even cheap South American wineries). Even coffee gets expensive. We don't buy a lot of coffee when we're out as we like to make it at home, but we buy good quality beans (Ethical, SaltSpring Island) and make it on the French press every morning to take to the office. Stuff adds up fast. When we decided to commit to a Costco membership, it was both a blessing and a curse.
We spend about 12% of our monthly budget on food and dining out.
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It's only my fiancé and I who we buy for, however we buy 95% of our food from and household goods from Costco without having a deep freeze. It may work out to be more $$$ in the end but the difference in quality of product heavily outweighs the price difference imo.