"The manner in which a housekeeper buys her groceries must depend upon where she lives and how large her family is. In a country place, where the stores are few and not well supplied, it is best to buy in large quantities all articles that will not deteriorate by keeping. If one has a large family a great saving is made by purchasing the greater portion of one's groceries at wholesale."
With increase costs of food and gas, I have been working on building up a plentiful pantry. Buying in bulk allows for lower prices and less grocery store runs. The second goal I have set is to do a once-a-month shopping day. My inspiration came from this book. With a year round garden, surplus of canned, dried and freezer goods, this goal is becoming more of a reality which really excites me!
With that being said, we are sharing our monthly shopping lists. If you are interested in doing something like this but don't know where to begin, you may want to print out our essential list for a stocked pantry and prepare from there.
We are placing our printable lists inside our home management binder. I three-hole punched the sheets and inserted the current month under the "daily section" so that I can conveniently add to it as needed. The rest will be stored in the "monthly work" section until I am ready for them. What will you do with yours?
If you have any problems accessing the printables, please let me know! Simply download from the link below, save and print.
This post may be shared with some or all of the following link-ups: Modest Mom Monday's, Make it Yourself Mondays, Homestead Barn Hop, Natural Living Tuesday's, Teach Me Tuesday, Raising Homemakers, Make Bake Create, Wise Woman Link Up, Christian Homemaking, Wildcrafting Wednesday, Whatever You Want Wednesday, Frugal Days, Sustainable Ways, Homemaking Wednesdays, Homemaking Thursdays, From the Farm Blog Hop, Farmgirl Friday, Clever Chicks Blog Hop and Deep Roots at Home. Thank you lovely ladies for hosting these. Black and White drawings are by the lovely Kate Greenaway.
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