One of the biggest changes for Schweisthal’s family came when they started planning weekly meals. And I couldn't believe it the first time I shopped there how much less expensive the food was there.” “That cut our grocery bills so much,” she said. The family also began shopping at Aldi, versus their local grocery store, based on comments Schweisthal received in the comments of her TikTok videos. “So, we just kind of would go to the store and go rogue,” she said. Schweisthal also said she and her family were not making a shopping list before going to the store. That led to impromptu purchases, which inflated the final bill. “And so, we'd come up with the plan 20 minutes before we go to the grocery store with what we wanted to eat that night.” “We were going shopping probably three times a week or more for groceries because we didn't have a plan for what we were going to eat during the week,” she said. To see where changes needed to occur, Schweisthal looked at her family’s shopping habits. “But I think we were so excited about it. “It was an intense change,” Schweisthal said. Videos from her series, “The Grocery Experiment” have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times, and Schweisthal was able to take her family’s monthly grocery bill from approximately $1,200 to around $400. Schweisthal works as the social media manager at YNAB (You Need A Budget) and decided to document her savings journey on TikTok. “Definitely not as intentional as I wanted to be about that.” “For my family of four, we were spending at least $1,200 every month on groceries,” Schweisthal said. When Sarah Schweisthal noticed inflation impacting the price of groceries in March of 2022, she looked at her family’s food budget to see where she could start saving and make some changes.
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