Coping with Inflation: Stretching Grocery Trips to Six Weeks
By
The Student-turned-Doctor
Summary
The author discusses coping with inflation by drastically reducing shopping frequency, stretching grocery trips to 6 weeks apart, and making quick, minimal trips to a local health food store for essentials only. This is part of a personal journal series about using what one already has to manage rising costs and maintain sanity during inflationary pressures.
Source
bskyCoping with Inflation: Stretching Grocery Trips to Six Weeksfoodfordissertating.blogspot.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledAs inflationary pressures spiral upward with no end in sight, one of the ways I've been keeping my sanity is simply avoiding shopping very often.
I make a point of not needing things.
I went to the health food store twice in that time, just grabbing the bare minimum.
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