Shitty Housewife Gets Nerdy
Jen ShermanI write about food, groceries, feeding small children, and how we've been tracking every cent we spend on food since 2019.
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Some foods are better left as memories
The nostalgic ultra-processed food (UPF)
A Viennetta is, essentially, a fancy rectangular prism of ice cream. A bit of a cross between a brick and a log, but with fancy waves and curls and ripples, dusted with chocolate shavings. It was th...
Pho and gelato, ‘crunch&sip’, and the opposite of voting with our forks
Well hello there. It’s been awhile since I’ve written, but I think there’s been a good reason— we moved to Australia. It was a lot. We have been in Australia for about five weeks now, and things are feeling a bit more settled. The kids are...
Just five lines
1300lb. This is how many pounds of potatoes my local In-N-Out goes through in one day.
Mortadella and stracciatella on milk bread. This is is a highly elevated ham and cheese sandwich that is now my six-year-old’s favourite sandwich. But o...
Using failure to level up meatballs
This is a tale of two foods, of failure and success, of sourdough and meatballs. Just as I would want to hear the bad news before the good if presented with the option, let’s begin with the failure.
Sourdough. Sourdough, sourdough, sourdou...
May food spending and inflation
We spent $1,647.52 on food groceries (‘food at home’, in academic parlance) in May 2026. This is more than we spent in April ($969.35), March ($1,445.91), February ($1,078.47), and even this time last year ($1,107.58 in May 2025). What we s...
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I used to be a geographer and now I'm a shitty housewife and a bit of a food obsessive. I've been tracking every cent our family spends on food since 2019 in a glorious spreadsheet and I write about that.
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