Got roasted for buying pre-chopped veggies - made me rethink my whole grocery budget

A buddy in this group called me out for spending $4 on a bag of pre-chopped onions when whole ones are like 80 cents. I brushed it off at first because I'm always rushing between kid drop-offs, but I started tracking it. Over a month, I was blowing an extra $35 just on pre-cut stuff from the Kroger on 5th Street. So I tried buying whole veggies and spending Sunday morning chopping for the week. Now I'm saving about $40 a month but man, the time trade off is real. Anyone else had someone's comment totally flip how you shop for cheap meals?

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king.lisa24d ago

Oh man, the $35 number though. I get the time thing, but you're not totally saving $40 a month if you're factoring in the time. Like, your Sunday morning is worth something too right. Just saying the math is a little squishy.

brooke48424d ago

king.lisa you're actually missing something here. the $35 thing is about the weekly fee theyre charging the client, not what you're saving. the client is paying $35 a week for the service, so that's $140 a month, not $40. the whole point was comparing that to what theyd pay if they did it themselves which is way more expensive when you add up supplies and all that.