After our mortgage, groceries are my family's largest monthly expense. Simple changes have helped me save around $300 a month.

• 05/31/2025, 6:17 PM
• businessinsider.com

Courtesy of Jill Robbins.

Our family has always been fairly solidly middle-class. We have all of what we need and a lot of what we want. Although I've never gone crazy with loading my grocery cart up with big-ticket items like steaks and lobster, buying food has always been mostly about what my kids will eat and what's easy to get on the table.