A few years ago, I started researching eating organically. Eating healthy has always been important to me and so once I knew the benefits or organic foods I knew that I wanted to make the switch. At the time we were on a very strict and very small monthly food budget. As part of our frugal living, we did a lot of couponing (and still do) to make sure that we hit our budget goals.
So, thinking about how to set our new food budget was a bit scary. We could cut some things out and tighten down in other areas to make a little more room in our food budget, but we couldn’t expand it too much.
We needed a way to figure out our average food cost per month. …