With Gas prices rising, what are you cutting out/down???

[greenbriar]

Public transportation is not a viable option in our sprawling city so I have to drive.

My grocery budget for the MONTH is 200 dollars should say was

we are going to try to get by on 100 dollars a month.



there are three of us two adults and a 14 year old!

what are you doing different?

[CottonBear]

1. Carpool. Walk when possible. Drive my 1978 Datsun Pickup instead

of my Dodge Dakota farm truck. I can walk and bike in my neighborhood but must drive to work and to my where my horse is boarded.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. right now,

using food stocks and going without medicine. If it gets much higher, I'm taking a sleeping bag into the office and staying there, coming home only on the weekends. Luckily, I can walk to get to most everything in town-its the 100 mile commute that is eroding my paycheck.

[praxiz]

3. Pardon me for asking.

But what 3rd world country are you from?

$100 a month is less than homeless people live on, where I'm from.

[greenbriar]

7. I live in Kansas

we only use ONE vehicle and are going to cut down DRASTICALLY on what extra's we buy

no more desserts and pop

[Windy]

13. We don't buy pop or snacks and our bill is 150.00 per week

for two adults and one teenager! Milk alone where I am is 3 dollars a gallon... cereal, even the cheapie brand is 3 dollars... how do you do it?

[noahmijo]

4. DRIVING

I take the bus now and drive a total of maybe 20 miles per week.

[huskerlaw]

5. Driving

I was supposed to go to a family reunion 100 miles away this weekend. Not gonna happen. I need to go to Target, will probably take my bike.

[yourout]

6. I purchased a Jetta TDI and have started A Biodiesel Coop.

I have located 40 gallons a week of used cooking oil with just 3 phone calls.

[cbear70]

8. not leaving the house

Daughter's bday is this weekend... we are staying in and just being home with her. Going to walk to the grocery store. Not drive the minivan, try and trade it in for something smaller. Cutting our grocery bill down tremendously , there are four of us.. just eat less...

did i mention I am pissed...

[Ian David]

9. I'm siphoning gas from those cars with the big "W" stickers on them

The "W" stands for, "We have gas for you to siphon."

Oh, and I also drive a Toyota Prius.

[greenbriar]

11. hehe

great answer

[niallmac]

15. Haaaaaaaahahahahaha!!!!

:rofl: :rofl:

[OhioChick]

22. hahahahahaha...........

:rofl:

[nonconformist]

10. Only necessary driving

Carpooling when possible.

[Ian David]

My freezer came un-plugged and I had to throw everything in it away

A couple hundred dollars (at least) of food gone to waste.

That pisses me off.

[nonconformist]

18. Yikes, that's happened to me before too

That sucks. :(

[NewJeffCT]

12. using my wife's Corolla more often

instead of the minivan...

[screembloodymurder]

14. I quit going to work.

Just eating raw food.

[greenbriar]

17. maybe we should plant a garden

?

[etherealtruth]

16. Metro Detroit essentially has no public transit ...

...so I am carefully planning trips to run errands. There are no more wasted trips, or trips for a gallon of milk ...

The largest difference is that I no longer take "drives"

it's just my 2 youngest children and I at home ... I can't fathom spending only $100 on groceries (and I am creative and eat little or no prepackaged food)

[Bouncy Ball]

19. Two adults and one 14 yr old and you're going to live on

$100 a month for food?

I think it's probably possible, but not very damn easy.

We are canceling the cable. That's $50 a month freed up. And fortunately we have been socking away money here and there, dribs and drabs, but it helps. I'm thankful for that. We are driving less. Husband has decided to bike to the store, small trips, and use his backpack to hold groceries in.

[Michydem]

20. just going out when necessary...to work and daycare and back

i will not drive if I dont' have to...I stopped watering my lawn, turned off my a/c just trying to cut back on the things we don't need so much right now...i spend about $350 a month on groceries..we got myself, my husband and two little ones...

[Kahuna]

21. I spend $75.00 a week on food just for me.

for 3 meals a day. :shrug:

[SmokingJacket]

23. Canned or dried beans, big bags of rice, some bacon for flavor.

That will take you far.

Also, potatoes.

I guess I'll be cutting back on everything... but sheesh, I've been cutting back for three years or so now...

[doc03]

24. Parked my 20mpg pickup and drive the Tracer at 35mpg

[Boredtodeath]

25. Stop driving

Simple, really.

[greenbriar]

27. well, I live more than 5 miles from work

and no public transportation

[Boredtodeath]

28. Same here. Why work to pay for gas to go to work?

Isn't that pretty useless?

Seriously, think about what you are saying........

You have to get to work to pay for gas to get to work to short your food budget.

[GeorgeGist]

26. Driving less