<prompt> Human: My husband and I are living paycheck to paycheck right now while saving for a move in 2 months. Things will get significantly better financially once we move. No more paycheck to paycheck!The one thing we seem to keep losing money on is groceries. I feel like we are spending 100-150 a week on groceries just between the two of us and I cant seem to wrap my head around it. As we walk through the aisles, were looking at prices and it feels like we are only adding items to our carts less than 5 at a time with the exception of things like a pack of chicken.Weve been eating ramen and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches rather than cooking meals at home because the grocery bill shoots up any time I try to make a recipe for us to cook and eat on all week. A casserole will add another 20-30 to our grocery bill, sometimes 40, just buying the veggies and ingredients for it. Were trying so hard to not make ourselves sick eating junk food to get by. The fruits and veggies and salads seem to be what kill us. We allow ourselves to eat out once every 2 weeks or so, even if its just fast food, so that we at least feel like were getting some special time in together between my working and his grad school, but are really good at not buying food while were out for the week, packing and bringing a lunch into our workplaces every day.What else can we do to trim our grocery bill?Heres an example of a typical grocery list for us:MilkCheap 12-pack of off-brand Diet Coke2 bags of lettuce for him to make salads, 2 bags of my favorite kind of salad4-pack of greek yogurtPack of blueberriesPack of strawberries2-3 apples2 avocadosBag of baby carrotsBunch of broccoliBuck of asparagus2 frozen lean cuisine pizzas1 bag of Trader Joes fried riceBag of goldfish crackersBag of pretzels2-3 lbs of chicken cooked in the crock pot and used through the week6-pack of ramen noodlesBox of minute riceBox of protein bars one of the most expensive things we get, but is good for breakfast on the go, keeps us full until lunchAdd a little more or less to that listen depending upon what we need maybe toilet paper or coffee, those kind of things you only buy once in a whileIdeas?We live in the CA Bay Area if that information is useful at all.  <response>: Youre in the Bay Area. Also, dont buy prepackaged fruit or vegetables. Shop at stores that have coupons or other club card...not cards with a few but store cards that save you some small percentage on various marked items. 