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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1545821" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>BUT; if you put the value on those items that you do not DIRECT purchase, then your food budget is more than 7%. You are writing off the cost of your beef through your cattle operation, the hog meat and the eggs have a value, do you buy the chicken and hog feed? </p><p>I spend about $100 a month on "groceries". That includes cat food for my "mousers", my "chocolate fix", plus whatever staples that I don't grow like you. I don't drink coffee, hot choc instead, or choc milk, and don't bake like I used to but there's always some things I need. I use very little of things like paper towels as I use dish cloths for alot of things; </p><p>What that is trying to show is that as a population in general, we do not "allot" much of our budget for food, like many countries do. Many here do not value "good food" as most of us farmers and ranchers and country people do, they just want it cheap, and then they want a "quick fix" for all the things that ails them instead of starting out healthy and trying to stay that way. I am probably spending 7% of my income in groceries/food and that includes buying some stuff on sale that I don't grow so I have it in storage. I get my milk from one of my cows, eggs from my chickens or a neighbors, beef from my own animals, venison and such. So I am right there with you on not spending alot but it all has value. If I lived in an apt., and had to buy all the things I get for "free", it would add up to more than 7% for sure. But then I want good food, not processed QUICK AND EASY stuff that is alot of empty calories. </p><p>Plus add in the benefit of the exercise to grow and harvest all these things, and look how much we are saving on a gym membership....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1545821, member: 25884"] BUT; if you put the value on those items that you do not DIRECT purchase, then your food budget is more than 7%. You are writing off the cost of your beef through your cattle operation, the hog meat and the eggs have a value, do you buy the chicken and hog feed? I spend about $100 a month on "groceries". That includes cat food for my "mousers", my "chocolate fix", plus whatever staples that I don't grow like you. I don't drink coffee, hot choc instead, or choc milk, and don't bake like I used to but there's always some things I need. I use very little of things like paper towels as I use dish cloths for alot of things; What that is trying to show is that as a population in general, we do not "allot" much of our budget for food, like many countries do. Many here do not value "good food" as most of us farmers and ranchers and country people do, they just want it cheap, and then they want a "quick fix" for all the things that ails them instead of starting out healthy and trying to stay that way. I am probably spending 7% of my income in groceries/food and that includes buying some stuff on sale that I don't grow so I have it in storage. I get my milk from one of my cows, eggs from my chickens or a neighbors, beef from my own animals, venison and such. So I am right there with you on not spending alot but it all has value. If I lived in an apt., and had to buy all the things I get for "free", it would add up to more than 7% for sure. But then I want good food, not processed QUICK AND EASY stuff that is alot of empty calories. Plus add in the benefit of the exercise to grow and harvest all these things, and look how much we are saving on a gym membership.... [/QUOTE]
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