Grocery shopping should be simple, right?
Tell that to Mark. I let him go by himself (cuz I hate grocery shopping, particularly with him) and he is gone for 2 hours and spends $150. To feed two people for a week! It's fucking ridiculous. He has no concept of reasonable shopping. He came home with bags and bags of stuff, some of it logical, some of it more on the $5 lobster mushroom continuum (yes, he paid 5 freaking dollars for one mushroom).
How do we get around this? The money is a problem, the excess is a problem...but food is his thing and I don't want to try to take that away from him (especially because I sure as hell don't want to cook). My current solution is that we decide what a reasonable amount to spend per month on food is and I give him half that amount. He does the shopping and if he goes over the amount we agreed on, he pays the difference. This would work because it would put the impetus on him to change, and I wouldn't have to be worried constantly about grocery bills. Seems reasonable. But will it work?