Let me put this out there right now I do not have kids okay, but I want to tell you exactly
How to raise the kids euchre that you currently have or that you will have in the future
so what does this have to do with how much I should spend on groceries a
Lot more than you think don't get mad yet
Hey I'm Jared from debt-free blueprint where I show people like you how to get out of debt and create
freedom through your finances in this video
I'm gonna give you the answer to how much should I spend on groceries every month now?
I was kidding when I said that I want to tell you exactly how to raise your kids
Settle down put down the pitchforks folks because just like I can't tell you
Exactly how to raise your kids because there's so many different variables that go into how that go into
How you raise them?
there isn't a specific number for me to give you when it comes to exactly how much you should spend on your
Groceries every single month, I'm gonna do you one better?
I'm gonna give you the framework and the calculator to decide how much you should be spending on groceries every single month
I don't know how important food is to you but the food that I eat is very very important to me personally
It's important to me because eight specific things based on a diet
I'm trying to achieve that complements a certain level of physical activity and mental activity that I prefer
I'll be giving you specific pro tips throughout this video. So make sure that you don't miss any of it
Leave a comment down below and let me know how much you currently spend on groceries and what you wish the number would be
Personally, my number is four hundred dollars per month. That's what I shoot for and that's what I hit every single frickin month. Listen
I know this is gonna get kind of personal but if it's okay with you
I'd like to take you inside of my computer
later on in this video so I can
Explain this process this framework a little bit better and then I'll also give you a calculator as well
So if you're okay, please come with me into my computer
I promise there's nothing weird that's gonna go on and there ain't trust me. Tell me if this sounds
Anything like you you're trying to figure out how much you want to spend on food this up. Come on
Maybe you do a budget and maybe you don't if you don't then this is me giving you the evil eye
Because you know better it's the moment of truth. This is one of the large spending categories for most of us food
So you sit down and you start thinking in your head?
How much would be a really good number to plan for if you were anything like me?
They're not very good at doing math in your head. So you bust out that expensive
Ti-83 that you got back in high school. You don't really know how much so you pick
$500 and think that sounds like a pretty good amount to budget for for food next month and then of course
the end of that month rolls around and you look at how much money that you have left for groceries and
Holy
Shit, you've overspent by a hundred and fifty dollars
But how in the heck did that happen you had the perfect amount Bright's you did the best
Shitty math in your head this since middle school. I'll tell you exactly how this happened
You didn't break that five hundred
Dollars down you start to beat yourself up because you heard in other videos how some people when we spend
50 dollars per month on food
And the reason they're able to do this is because they're either lying there either
Spending the whole month eating grass from their neighbor's yard or their dumpster diving folks. Okay
I find it extremely hard to believe that someone can consistently sustain a decent
healthy lifestyle for multiple months on
$50.00 per month when it comes to their food
If you see anyone who puts out a video saying this then tell them that I said, they're a bunch of idiots
Okay, and share this video with them because they are
Stupid if they try to tell you that you can spend $50 per month on food. It's ridiculous. There's two reasons
why most people fail at budgeting for groceries the first one is they're setting an amount and just
going out there and trying to stick to it without thinking through the different variables that are
specific to your situation
And the second reason is you hear someone else's number and you try to fit your eating habits into theirs when your life is
Nothing like theirs
It just doesn't make sense before you start planning out how much you should spend on your food every single month
You'll definitely need to think about some of the different variables indoor life
That will impact how much you spend
Now as we go through the different variables think about how they play a role into your life
It might even make sense for you to jot down some thoughts and ideas as we go through this in the video the different
Variables that will impact how much you spend are things like the types of food that you eat
So do you eat cat food or don't you eat cat food?
I hope you know but you might so that depends the next is are you anything like my one ex who refuses to eat?
Leftovers that's gonna play a big part in how much you spend every month on groceries. How often do you eat?
So are you someone like me who skips breakfast?
I also never snack throughout the day so I don't account for that in my food budget every single month
another one is the effort that you want to put into finding coupons and how many stores you're willing to drive to I
Personally find coupons to be a big waste of time and money from me
Which I'll make a video about this layer and I'll throw the link in the description for that video if it's out by the time
You watch this. Where did you leave as a big variable?
the price of food is most likely going to be higher in say
California than it is here in Ohio where I live that's just the way it is
We can't control that and the last variable to think about is your physical activity level if you work out a lot
then you're most likely going to have to eat larger portions to
Refuel your body with the proper foods and proper nutrition now
It's time to go into my computer so I can show you the two ways to decide how much you should spend on groceries
Every single month welcome to the little calculator that I made just for you now
Like I said, this is going to be available for you offline
I'll put the link down in the description for you to copy and paste it for yourself
I've got directions up here how to do it. As long as you've got a gmail account of some sort
You will have free access to it
and the first way that we're gonna go over is if you start out the month and you know,
How much you want to spend in your budget? So like I said for me?
Personally, I spent $400 per month now that's a little bit different because the way that I currently eat I fast
So I only eat twice twice per day and then I give myself to cheat meals per week so it can get kind of confusing
So for this case, I'm just going to go off the 400
So if you know that totally you want to spend from one per month on your budget
We'll say it's $400 in my case. And then the tote the number of people that you will be feeding
so in my case
it's just one the meals per day per person for me would be two because they eat twice per day and
Then the days in the month however many days there are in that upcoming month. So we'll just call it 30 days
So based on that $400 that I have budgeted for food. I can spend six dollars and 67
Cents per meal
Now the second way to figure this out is by knowing how much you want to spend per meal
So say you have a meal that you know how to make and and you know
What the total cost of that meal is and you already know what it is broken down
To the cost per meal
so we'll say I can get all of my meals I can get them down to $3.00 per meal and
The total number of people for me would be one person and then the meals per day. Let's just say I eat twice per day
In the days of the month thirty, of course
So that would mean that my budget for that month would be one hundred and eighty dollars I could get away with it
If I can get all of my meals down to $3.00 per meal, you can obviously increase that as well
So I've highlighted all the cells here to show you
Which ones you can edit to help you out?
Now there's one more thing that I like to do. So what I've done over the years is I've started to track
the different prices of
Groceries that I eat so it's a simple spreadsheet
I just take what the item is where I buy it the quantity the price the ounces and then I get the breakdown of
each of those per ounce
So this kind of helps me with planning not only my current meals but meals that I might want to make in the future
So say there's something that takes spinach and lean beef and tomato sauce, okay
well I can kind of guess
How much I'm going to or get an idea of how much I'm going to be spending on that meal every month
So this is kind of like a lot of the things that I've eaten over this amount of time
and I know how to make some good meals out of these things for
A decent price that's going to fit into the little food cost
Whether it's per meal or per month, so it just helps me be a little bit more successful
When it comes to doing these types of things going forward when it comes to my budgeting for food
Let's go over a couple pro tips to help you be more
successful at this have a handful of meals that you rotate through that you've already done the math on so you can kind of just
Plug and play it into your grocery budget and diet and the next pro tip is to prep and pre portion your meals out
So that the serving sizes are already set and you know the cost for me and that's it
Use this method to help with how much you should spend on groceries
Every single month and don't forget to get access to the free calculator that eye calculator that I showed you in that example
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