2010 Grocery Budget

Over the past year I have seen our grocery bill go down from around $500 a month it's current level of less than $250 a month. I can remember spending between $100 and $150 on a single grocery trip. Now it's rare that I spend more then $30 per trip, but I am usually making more than one trip a week.

Our budget for 2010 is set at $250 for groceries per month. For our budget groceries include all food, health and beauty items, dog food, diapers and wipes, formula(if and when we switch to it), cleaning products and the money I spend purchasing coupons. By the end of the year I hope to have our budget even lower to around $150. I figure we could probably spend around $10 - $20 per week on produce and dairy and another $15 - $20 on stockpile items.