Hopefully this is my last shopping for this whole week if not surprised with guests. I do have milk I think will last me through the week and little bit of this and that. I was supposed to do all this on Saturday and didn’t get time on Sunday too. So had to do my usual shopping on Monday and Tuesday.This shop is a little further away from my home, but a Kerala store where we get Malayalam Films for rent and all Kerala stuff and the shop owner greets you with ‘ah, enthokke undu, kore naalayallo kandittu’ which means, ‘Oh Hello how are you, long time no see’ – even though we go there almost every week :)
I buy frozen grated coconut, fish chutney, snacks etc. from here. For me, it is a whiff of Kerala and a psychological thingie. Until I visit this shop, I don’t feel I have shopped enough :).
So here it is $ 21.22. That’s a total of $67.40 for a week. Remember I haven’t got any stuff like rice, dhals, spices etc. I will just stay this way for next week so I can make a good comparison on such stuff alone.
As an anonymous asked, how many people at home? 4 people at home.
Feeling huh? Read this please.
7 comments:
gosh, i miss california where we had a gujju grocery, punju grocery and mallu grocery within a mile of each other. here we have one indian grocer and the next one is 500 miles away.
sigh i miss california too :(
i actually went Whoa! when I saw approx $70 for the week, but realized I spent approx that much when I lived there. And that doesn't include the times we would order in or eat out. It sounds like an average spend, Inji.
Sometimes I end up buying a lot of snacks from the Indian store and I realised that Indian store snacks are really expensive. Thank god we are on a diet now! Your expenditure this week did sound average, but perhaps you could break it down into staples, snacks etc so you can compare bills later on.
67 dollars a week ! Thats seems less. I should see how much i spend.. Awesome job inji ! IF we tally this to a month we will have a much better guage I guess.
uh oh!! that is a lot, isin't it?but then how long does this stuff last?
I think this is really excellent. I'm single and spend $30-$40/week - which is way more than you per person. I don't eat much meat, and I eat tons and tons of vegies. I cook everything from scratch and I hardly ever buy processed foods.
But my menu planning is spotty. When I do it, the costs stay down. When I don't - and impulse buy, they creep up to $40/wk or more.
Typically I make a few stops a week - the Indian store, the supermarket, and maybe a farmers market or the butcher/fishmonger. It's the impulse buying ("ohhh - look tiny eggplants!") that kills me I think.
where is this mallu grocery store Inji Pennu. I miss NYC and CA... and now have to find a Mallu grocery store in Portland, Oregon. Anyone?
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