You Only Need These 20 Groceries This Winter (Stop Buying the Rest)

📕 The Home Savings Manual — 79 ways to stop overpaying for your own house: https://brendacarver.com/ Pull your last grocery receipt out of the bag and count the lines. My neighbor's had sixty-three, and she still said she had nothing to make for supper. You're buying more things than ever and ending up with less food than ever. I run this house on about twenty groceries all winter, because everything else on that receipt is one of those twenty, chopped up or boxed up and marked up for the trouble. Our grandmothers shopped the bottom shelf and ate fine. In this one I'll walk you through the 20 groceries I actually buy from November to March: 🥔 Potatoes, onions, carrots and cabbage, the ten-dollar floor you can eat on for a week 🎃 Winter squash, apples, dried beans, rice, oats, flour and cornmeal, cupboard food at a dollar or two a pound 🥫 Canned tomatoes, eggs, milk, butter and a block of cheese, plus the salt and vinegar that make it all taste like something 🥩 The cheap cut, pork shoulder or chuck, slow-cooked into four nights of suppers …and number one, the one purchase that feeds this house for four days and that most people walk right past. The store makes its money on the middle aisles. Shop the bottom shelf. The food's the same, and you keep your money right where it belongs. If saving money and a smarter grocery cart sound good to you, subscribe and stick around — that's what we do here every week. 💛 What's on your twenty that I didn't name? Tell me down in the comments. #frugalliving #savemoney #grocerybudget #winterpantry #budgetgroceries #pantrystaples #cheapmeals #homemaking #householdtips