Apparently I am a glutton for punishment and am considering breaking my food budget down by category. Instead of just having my "food" budget and having everything we eat or drink come from it, I'm going to trial breaking my food spending down into different categories (meat/seafood, dairy, vegetables, fruit - an important distinction for me over just produce, grains and pulses, pantry staples, processed/convenience foods, beverages, etc)

Does anyone else track such a specific breakdown?

As I've been shifting the way I think about food spending to an annual budget over a monthly or weekly budget over the course of the year, I've been wanting to do more bulk shopping of food categories for the year (ie buying a side of beef) which has had me starting to see my food budget as smaller parts of a whole rather than one large pool of money.…