Do you buy your groceries separate?

[playfelt]

We have been told in many workshops given by revenue canada that you can not just use an arbitrary per day amount for meals that you have to use your bills/menu and determine based on specifics. I know in the US they have the per day option but we don't. Yes some of you will say that is what your accountant did and it was accepted but that also means the government accepted the amount you claimed for food and didn't audit you to find out how you arrived at that figure since if they did you would have had to show how you got to the $7 a day claim.

[sunnydays]

Do you mean that we have to calculate what we spent each day? Or do you mean that you have to calculate an average and then use that as your per day amount? I have menus and I have reciepts, but I am not sure how to go about figuring out how much each meal cost for each child...this seems very complicated.

We have been told in many workshops given by revenue canada that you can not just use an arbitrary per day amount for meals that you have to use your bills/menu and determine based on specifics. I know in the US they have the per day option but we don't. Yes some of you will say that is what your accountant did and it was accepted but that also means the government accepted the amount you claimed for food and didn't audit you to find out how you arrived at that figure since if they did you would have had to show how you got to the $7 a day claim.