Food By The Pound

This past weekend I cooked some dried chickpeas and got to wondering how much they were per pound. It's difficult to compare prices when most everything is priced differently. The chick peas were $1.75 a bag. I cooked them and then drained the water and weighed them. They were $.65 per pound. It drives me crazy that many food items seem to be priced differently just to make it difficult for shoppers to compare and get the best deal. Those bags of frozen chicken breast are a good example. Locally they always seem to be on sale "buy one for $12.95 get one free". The price per pound is nowhere to be found. I am going to start carrying a calculator to the store. The bag is something like 46 oz, so two bags are 92 oz divided by 16 oz or 5.75 lbs, so the chicken is $2.25 per lb. Well, fresh chicken breasts were on sale for $1.99 per lb. The fresh was a better deal and you didn't have to spend $13.00. I am going to start figuring out what everything costs per lb and post it on here. Stuff like ice cream and tortilla chips. I saw a guy on TV who has a simple policy...he won't buy anything if it's more than $1.00 per lb.



So after 14 weeks we are spending $128.00 per week for my family of five. I saw a new figure figure that said that a family of four spends $211.00 per week on food. So I think I'm doing pretty well but my goal is still to get down to an average of $100.00.