{"id":1964,"date":"2012-03-01T17:17:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T23:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2013-04-17T09:04:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T14:04:49","slug":"grocery-shopping-on-a-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=1964","title":{"rendered":"Grocery Shopping on a Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1970\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?attachment_id=1970\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1970\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1970\" class=\" wp-image-1970 \" title=\"IMG_4228\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_4228-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_4228-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_4228-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carrots from the garden<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Prior to having children, my diet consisted of whatever would fill me up. In between school, sports, and hanging out with friends a &#8220;nutritious&#8221; meal meant fast food, a mayo sandwich, and\/or the infamous ramen noodles. Liquid? usually beer.<\/p>\n<p>While I still love beer (hey, I&#8217;m from Wisconsin!) my ideas about what my family and myself should eat have drastically changed. Mac-n-cheese is cool once and a while, but for the majority of the days we try to sit down with plates that are at least half covered in what my 3 year old calls, &#8220;our green friends!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tracking my finances with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splasm.com\/checkbookpro\/index.html\">CheckBook Pro<\/a> has revealed the large chunk of change that goes towards groceries each month. Though ramen noodles weren&#8217;t exactly good for me&#8230;they were\/are cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Exploring ways to lower the cost of groceries, I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/njaes.rutgers.edu\/pubs\/publication.asp?pid=FS1097\">&#8220;Practical Ways to Trim High Grocery Prices&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m in the process of trying out some of these strategies.<\/p>\n<p>What are some of your best tricks for staying on budget with food?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to having children, my diet consisted of whatever would fill me up. In between school, sports, and hanging out with friends a &#8220;nutritious&#8221; meal meant fast food, a mayo sandwich, and\/or the infamous ramen noodles. Liquid? usually beer. While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=1964\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2650,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}