NEWS YOU CAN USE: Killing your $1000 Grocery Bill. “When you look it up, the average food cost for a family of four in the US is actually quite high, at $944 per month. But to call it ‘food cost’ makes it sound like it’s out of your control. I would call this the average food spending. Just like the average family’s transportation cost is not some fixed punishment that the cruel world imposes on them.. it’s a measure of the amount of driving that they have designed into their lives, multiplied by the level of inefficiency of the vehicles they have chosen for themselves.”

I guess this is a good time for another plug for that Strategic Shopping piece, too.