My brother and I usually do all the grocery shopping when it's a big shop. He hates it but I don't really care. Parents have done it forever, it's our turn to help out.
Anyway, meat's expensive. We buy meat once a fortnight and grocery shopping's usually done on a weekly basis. If I work out the average, we probably spend about £150/week [$300]. If I add small trips to the local grocers in between it's probably £180/week [$360].
And we're a family of 5/7 during the week and 9 on weekends.
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Originally Posted by sally
anybody live within short distances of farms?  like ok i live near a real city..promise. BUT. there's farms within like 50 miles
ive been peach picking. im gonna *try* to go berry picking and stuff...it's amazing. you buy a tub for like 5 bucks and get to fill it up yourself with however much fruit you want..like you get to harvest.
SWEEEETT. CHEAP LABOR. IMMIGRANTS FO LYF
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We took the kids strawberry picking last summer at our local farm/berry picking place thing, which is less than about 10miles away from us and we had so much fun. We came back with a load of strawberries, raspberries, plums, courgettes, corn annnnnd what else? Oh! Onions [those were stinky but fun to pull out of the ground].
We had to do it differently to you. Here, when you go in, they give you containers to put your stuff in and a trolley thing so you don't have to carry things around. Then when you're done, they weigh your stuff and then you pay for it. We paid like £30 [$60]. I'm not sure if that's cheaper than buying it from a shop shelf, I'd say it was, but only slightly...but it was definitely fun-er than grocery shopping!