Ok everyone, when I said I was considering separating our food bank purchases from our "gonna use this" food purchases I meant setting aside a bit of money outside of our reg. food budget to make these purchases, versus including the food bank items in our reg. monthly food budget.
I do keep track of all food bank items donated during the year and declare it for tax purposes already, that's not the issue.
Should I say give myself a monthly food budget of whatever(use to be $400 mo.)and then give myself a separate pool of cash to pay for donated items out of, instead of my food budget?
Maybe designate a part of our yearly Charitable $ giving Budget for buying items for the food bank or carve out a chunk of the regular Food Spending Budget to pay for these food donations?
$400 or $350 or whatever I spend a month is already tight so using a piece of the Charity $ might be the way to go with this.
Sluggy
I do keep track of all food bank items donated during the year and declare it for tax purposes already, that's not the issue.
Should I say give myself a monthly food budget of whatever(use to be $400 mo.)and then give myself a separate pool of cash to pay for donated items out of, instead of my food budget?
Maybe designate a part of our yearly Charitable $ giving Budget for buying items for the food bank or carve out a chunk of the regular Food Spending Budget to pay for these food donations?
$400 or $350 or whatever I spend a month is already tight so using a piece of the Charity $ might be the way to go with this.
Sluggy
