{"id":337,"date":"2007-11-27T12:20:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T17:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theholtsite.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/27\/groceries\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T12:20:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T17:20:57","slug":"groceries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/337\/","title":{"rendered":"Groceries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jill and I had a good Thanksgiving. We spent much of it at Jill’s parent’s house. Ed and I got some card games in (we play Magic when we can). Last Friday I had my friends Will and Ryan over for some games too – see I can be social!<\/p>\n

Yesterday I went grocery shopping. I figured since I’m not working much at the moment I should help out if I can around the house with errands and chores. I really stink at this since I’m not very self-motivated. Anyway, somehow I got myself out the door to grocery shop. I was kind of hungry and thirsty, which is a bad idea when you go grocery shopping – you spend more than you mean to. But then again, we hadn’t gone in about a month for groceries.<\/p>\n

I was curious, so I asked DrBuck (our home-grown financial software) how much we spend on groceries. Our category on groceries includes everything food-related except going out to eat, which is entertainment. Here’s what I found:<\/p>\n

\"Holt<\/p>\n

So apparently we spend an average of $200 per month on food. That’s more than I thought. One reason might be that our local store tries to be rather “gourmet” even though it’s just your average grocery store. Their prices are a bit high. We could just drive to a cheaper one, but it’s closer and more convenient.<\/p>\n

I splurged and got whole milk, which I love. Jill and I normally compromise on milk – she likes that nasty 1% or skim stuff (which, incidentally, tastes like water with white food coloring), and I like whole milk. So normally we get 2%. Jill likes whole milk but she doesn’t like that it is less healthy. But I figured since I was shopping I could get whole milk once \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So now I’m drinking a nice glass of it and savoring the fat, cholesterol, and creamy taste. This made me miss when I was a wee lad and had milk delivered to our door in the morning. Everyone did! They don’t do this any more, which I miss. Fresh whole milk delivered to your door tastes great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jill and I had a good Thanksgiving. We spent much of it at Jill’s parent’s house. Ed and I got some card games in (we play Magic when we can). Last Friday I had my friends Will and Ryan over for some games too – see I can be social! Yesterday I went grocery shopping. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}