I'm 55 and Mexican. I Only Buy Groceries Once a Month ($200 at Walmart, Here Is How I Make It Work)

#OnceAMonth #GroceryHaul #FrugalLiving One cart on the first of the month, and it feeds four people until the next first. I push the cart through Walmart with you in the order my mother taught me to fill it, bulk shelf, cans, freezer meat, the dairy that keeps, the produce that lasts, with what every single thing costs this week, and then I hold the receipt up to the camera so you can read the bottom yourself. Honest: there is a second trip on the fifteenth for milk and greens, about $15, and the $200 counts it. Then the nineteen suppers the cart makes, named. 📖 My mother's whole way of running a house is written down in one book, The Old Mexican Way: https://oldmexicanway.com None of this is your fault. Nobody taught you to shop for a month, because the store is built to see you every three days. THE CART (this week's Walmart prices, your store differs): Bulk shelf, about $68: rice 20 lb $11.14 · pinto beans 8 lb $6.88 · Maseca 4 lb ×2 $7.96 · oil 48 oz $3.57 · oats $4.18 · flour $1.97 · sugar $2.97 · salt 94¢ · Knorr jar $3.49 · fideo ×4 ~$2.40 · coffee 30 oz $12.43 · guajillo $5.64 · vinegar gal $3.94 Cans, about $18: tomato sauce ×8 48¢ · diced tomatoes ×4 96¢ · tuna ×4 96¢ · chipotles ×2 $1.63 · corn ×2 76¢ · green chiles ×2 93¢ Freezer meat, about $49: leg quarters 10 lb ×2 $8.64 · pork shoulder ~8 lb at $1.88/lb · ground beef 3 lb roll $16.94 Dairy that keeps, about $24: eggs 60 ct $7.13 · butter $2.98 · Colby Jack block $6.96 · evaporated milk 4-pack $4 · milk 1 gal $2.72 Produce that lasts, about $26: cabbage $2.59 · carrots $2.08 · onions 3 lb ×2 $2.39 · potatoes 10 lb $4.54 · limes 2 lb $4.53 · apples 3 lb ×2 $2.18 · garlic $1.48 · jalapeños ~$2 Receipt: about $185. The quincena (milk, tortillas if no masa, cilantro, lettuce, tomatoes, bananas): $15 to $20. The month: about $200. Said plainly: rice, beans and flour into lidded buckets the day you get home. Meat divided and dated the same day. Onions and potatoes in the dark, apart. The list is written after you open your own cupboards. Not medical advice; the salt and the sugar are yours to decide. CHAPTERS 0:00 Once a month, and the receipt to prove it 0:35 Why the month works and the week does not 1:43 None of this is your fault 2:27 The bulk shelf: rice, beans, Maseca, oil 4:48 One book for the whole house 5:04 Oats, flour, sugar and salt, Knorr, fideo, coffee, guajillo, vinegar 7:43 The cans: 22 cans, about $18 8:59 The freezer meat: leg quarters, pork shoulder, ground beef 11:32 Halfway: the quincena, what gets bought again on the 15th 12:55 The dairy that keeps: eggs, butter, block cheese, evaporated milk, milk 14:35 The produce that lasts: cabbage, carrots, onions, potatoes, limes, apples, garlic, jalapeños 17:30 The receipt, read by section 18:23 The nineteen suppers the cart makes 19:32 The rules, said once 20:26 Guarda pan para mayo 20:38 Who profits 21:19 One thing this week: the bulk shelf only Tell me what your month at Walmart costs, and what your mother bought once a month that nobody else understood. Tell me your county too. I read every one. 📖 The Old Mexican Way: https://oldmexicanway.com #WalmartHaul #BudgetGroceries #MexicanMom