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Last night I dreamed I was eating a Gramwich and I woke up eating one.

Here is a nosy question that you can choose to answer or not. Since we both have the same size family (at least for a few months anyway), how much do you spend a month on groceries??

You guys are definitely healthy eaters, and I sometimes feel like it is too expensive to eat healthy (they have such great sales on JUNK). I am a big couponer, sale watcher, price matcher, you name it! I have to be able to afford to feed this big family on just a cops salary, ya know??? I try hard to feed my kids healthy, but I feel like I spend so much more money (not to mention fighting them on eating the right way!)

I would love any help or input you could give me here. This little blog is inspirational to me, now I just need the recipes!!

I spend between 80-150 dollars a week on groceries..ideally...sometimes it goes up to $200 in a week when we are constantly going to the store for this or that or we feel the need to get something special like for holidays, guests or birthdays.

I don't do coupons because they are mostly for processed foods but I do try to eat our food storage, buy in bulk, plant a garden, pick my neighbors overgrown whatever they have fruit trees in season and look out for deals.

Okay, that makes me feel a little better. I do need to plant a garden, but we have no yard! We live in a new neighborhood, so I am starting to watch how all of my neighbors are incorporating gardens into our tiny lots! I belong to a produce group (where we get produce from the suppliers at a big discount) and I hit Farmers Markets when I get a chance.

And, you are right about the coupons!! They are for junk! Since we started eating healthier I rarely use coupons anymore, but I do find some that are useful!

Thanks for your tips---I will keep watching your recipe blog for ideas on how I can get my kids to eat better. If your kids will eat it, mine should be able to learn to, right??

The kids will eat anything if the alternative is to go hungry.

We don't allow our kids to eat any type of refined treat they get offered the millions of places they offer kids stuff like that....and we've been doing that since the oldest was 3..so they are used to it. Sooooo...we spoil them with every kind of treat you can imagine from good earth with the exception of chocolate which we have decided to not eat at all..although I'm starting to think it would be okay to buy cocoa and make our own. Anyway, we've pretty much tried everything sweet they sell there. We don't really buy a lot of food food there...I can find similar products cheaper or make my own.

My kids will go hungry...but only for a meal!

By the way, what is a Gramwich?? Sounds GOOD.