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That’s awesome. We shop at Costco and spend $200+/month on fruit, milk and eggs for 5 of us.[/quote]
We don’t buy fruit from Costco. I find that a lot of times, Costco fruits are more expensive. If you look at the circular for the various supermarkets, you see the fruits they have on sale are cheaper than Costco and not all sales items are cheap. We also find Zion market veggies and fruit, a lot of time are cheaper too. Though not always. You just have to keep a mental note on what price is good for certain product and wait to see when a supermarket have it on sale at that price and you buy it. We tend to only buy non perishable stuff and frozen stuff from Costco. Eggs are often not the cheapest at Costco either. Costco eggs comes out to about $1.1/dozen. A lot of times, you can find eggs on sale for $0.99/dozen somewhere else.[/quote]

We get organic milk/eggs at Costco, their price for that is not bad. We get feta cheese/pita bread/phyllo dough/pickled food and some fruit/veggies at North Park Produce in Poway, but that place is unreliable – oranges or bananas at 30c, but 3 out of 4 runs they’ll have only the rotten stuff left. Henry’s/Sprouts for some bulk/produce, but their prices are up. Costco is the most reliable, the engineered mushrooms are nice and big, blueberries, blackberries and grapes ripe and sushi fresh. The kids also get to dine out 🙂

Our food column is ~$500 and misc household (toiletries, chemicals…) another $300.

You are controlling your expenses much better than we do, congrats.