My grocery bill is steadily climbing and I am not sure what to do. I make too much for SNAP. Any tips or tricks? It’s just me in my household, so would buying in bulk be worth it?
Edit: I want to thank everyone for their responses. I have a lot to think about.
Mine is, just buy cheap food with what you can and moderate it.
I know a lot of people will recommend cooking and baking. But, what people aren’t talking enough of, is that it could take a lot of materials to get recipes done right. And those materials required could be expensive to gather. And once you’re done cooking said meal, you only have the materials to usually make that meal and you’ve got nothing else to lean on that you want to eat readily without cooking.
So what you ideally would want to do is set a budget and try to think to yourself as to what you’re comfortable with compromising, then just work up to that budget between what you want to cook and what you want readily there to eat.
Work on learning cooking techniques rather than recipes. There’s plenty of content. I’ll drop this as a starting point as it has a fair amount of content and focuses on moving away from just recipes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srMEoe_5y6g&t=75
Many other resources are available; it’s easy to turn $30 of varied ingredients into many different meals rather than just several portions of one thing.