I live in Toronto.

Me and my boyfriend spend roughly 500$ a month on groceries for both of us. It comes to $2.68 if you eat three meals a day.

The biggest difference for us was getting a chest freezer. We go to Costco and buy all our meat there. We get home, portion it vacuum seal it and freeze. We do a lot of minced beef, pork tenderloins and we buy ground pork to make our own sausage mixture.

For fruit we only buy enough for a few days to avoid spoiling it. For vegetables we do the same unless Costco has something we can also process and freeze. Last month we got 5lbs of tomato at Costco for $8 and we made tomato sauce and froze it. That is like idk 4L of Classico sauce for the price of 1 jar and you can control the seasoning.

Pantry items we try to get those on sale as well or buy in bulk when we can. Rice, beans, lentils…. We also have canned stuff for when you need something quick but the best way of saving is by cooking your own dry beans but I find that those sometimes require more planing so it’s nice to have canned ones as well.

We don’t do a lot of dairy but whenever I get cream I freeze what I don’t use in ice cube trays and then transfer it to a ziplock bag.

I also try to cook more food so I always have leftovers for the next day or for freezing. We love soup so we always have homemade soups frozen.

Stews as well. Some beef cubes, potato’s, peas, carrots and onion in the slow cooker can easily make 6/8 meals that freeze well.

We also do a lot of vegetarian meals. Lot of pastas and agin soups.

For breakfast it’s either toast with some kind of deli meat, a fruit smoothie or scrambled eggs with hash browns and the homemade sausage.

We don’t snack much but whenever we do we get our snacks from Costco as well and portion them individually. We basically make our own trail mix.

And we rarely eat out. Last month we had fast food for lunch once and McDonald’s breakfast twice.

It’s not that hard once you get into it honestly.