How much do you spend on groceries per week?

pinggolfer96

Depends if I’m bulking or cutting lol....also depends on my work situation, when I’m filming I get a lot of free food lol.

FL_Hiker

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

depends. for me and my son, usually around $100. but that includes non food items too.

When my fiance is home, probably closer to $125-$150, depending on beer consumption and what im cooking (i cook more when hes home and do more easy/quick/convenient things when hes not)

$100 a month?? Wow how do you do it? Where do you live?

kellyw4444

I live in Canada, so food costs more here. We spend on average about $300/week for a family of 4. This is down from $400/week when my son lived at home. We eat out maybe one night a week ($50-75) and the rest of the time all meals are homemade, including breakfasts and lunches. We have a large garden that we eat out of six months of the year. We also have two teenage daughters who eat a TON and are very physically active (both have 2nd degree Black Belts in Taekwon-Do), training 3 days per week, skateboarding and riding their bikes to/from school/work. When my daughter was away at university this past year, we saved $100/week on food without her! The majority of our food budget goes to fresh fruit and veggies, dairy and protein (chicken, ground beef, pork tenderloin and whatever is on sale), but that also includes paper products, laundry soap (our girls generate a lot of laundry, too) and cleaning products. We eat well and don't have to worry about eating on a budget but I still shop sales and buy things in bulk. I also can and freeze our own fruit and veggies every summer, make my own jam, relish, salsa and so forth. I like knowing what I put in my body and what I feed my family is healthy and low in salt, sugar, preservatives, and hormones.

Thisyearismyyear

$100-$150 on groceries a week for a family of 3. But we also eat out about 3 times a week. It also doesn’t include the school lunch account.

TonyB0588

sbrooks0387 wrote: »

Family of 6. We average out to around $100/week. Some weeks I only buy milk and bread, some weeks I stock the freezer. I also grow a lot of our food. And we have a large flock of chickens, so all the eggs we could possibly eat.

Wow!! What ages in your family? My teenaged son eats more than anyone else in the house. $100.00 per week sounds so impossible.

tirowow12385

I eat at work cafeteria, free food, so I don't spend much.

pinggolfer96

tirowow12385 wrote: »

I eat at work cafeteria, free food, so I don't spend much.

I’d sneak in some Tupperware lol

callsitlikeiseeit

FL_Hiker wrote: »

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

depends. for me and my son, usually around $100. but that includes non food items too.

When my fiance is home, probably closer to $125-$150, depending on beer consumption and what im cooking (i cook more when hes home and do more easy/quick/convenient things when hes not)

$100 a month?? Wow how do you do it? Where do you live?

100 a WEEK not a month.

i WISH it was a month LOLOLOLOLOL

me3332

You guys need to teach me. I only buy for myself and I’m around $700 a month for food only.. 😔

yirara

me3332 wrote: »

You guys need to teach me. I only buy for myself and I’m around $700 a month for food only.. 😔

So what are you buying that you spend $700/month just for yourself? Do you cook? What do you cook? Do you follow a specific diet?

FL_Hiker

me3332 wrote: »

You guys need to teach me. I only buy for myself and I’m around $700 a month for food only.. 😔

Do your grocery stores have buy one get one deals? You could try shopping by the sales and stocking up on foods you know you eat consistently. I always try to buy in bulk, especially proteins when they're on sale since they are usually the most expensive! I feel my budget suffers the most when I walk into the store without a list or if I'm just shopping by recipe. I try to overlap my common ingredients for each meal . Ex. Sunday night is lentil soup and quesadillas, I'll take those tortias, sour cream, cilantro and Mexican cheese and use them for burritos on Monday :-).

RaeBeeBaby

I'm going to guesstimate about $400 a month for two people which includes paper products and wine/beer but not pet food. I get the high-end pet food at our local farm store, so not included in the grocery budget. I probably spent twice that when my sons were still living at home - consuming a gallon of milk and two boxes of cereal a day (just for breakfast).

I feel like I do pretty well now at keeping it around $80-$100 a week by shopping sale items and hitting the discount grocery once a month. I live in a smallish town with 2 stores. Shopping the sale items only at one and the club discount (Safeway) at the other saves me quite a bit of money. There's a great discount grocery about 30 miles away, so it's not terribly convenient but I'll incorporate it into other errands if I'm going there anyway. I used to grow a garden, but stopped doing that this year for the first time in 25 years. Truly, it wasn't that cost effective if you consider soil, fertilizer, seeds/plants then canning jars, lids, etc. Not to mention all the time spent weeding and watering. It saved money when kids were home but as empty-nesters we were giving away over half the produce or spending time preserving and canning then giving a lot of that away, too.

I certainly had sticker shock last weekend when I went to the big town (Portland, OR) for a visit with a friend. We shopped at New Seasons and I spent as much in one grocery bag for a few items as I do for an entire week at home. I'm sure if I lived in a big city I'd have to budget a bit tighter.

IGbnat24

For my husband and myself, about $300. I cook 90% of our food fresh. We use very little boxe or canned food.

nickssweetheart

For just me, it's usually about 40-45 dollars per week, but I've been splurging lately on pricey condiments, spices, and meat substitutes and the last couple of weeks have spent 180 altogether. I need to rein myself back in before my budget takes too much of a beating. At least my meals today are super cheap (split peas and lentils, ftw.)

happytree923

I’m single, and spend about $400 a month on groceries and all household items except cat supplies. The first two weeks of the month I spend a LOT more because I’ll go to Costco to get meat, alcohol, bread, etc., and go to Kroger for things I don’t want in bulk, the rest of the month I spend less than $40 a week at Kroger. I could definitely cut back but I enjoy cooking at home, so I think of it as part of my entertainment spending as well.

Hamsibian

me3332 wrote: »

You guys need to teach me. I only buy for myself and I’m around $700 a month for food only.. 😔

I spent about that much for a while. Trying to gain weight on an autoimmune diet for Crohn's disease made grocery shopping a bit tough on the budget. Now I am in maintenance and have reintroduced some food. This month I spent close to 400, but each week is a bit cheaper than the last as I'm finding more ways to save. Farmer's market season, eating more offal meat, discounted meat section, sales, shopping at 3 different places close to home (including working at a co-op). Hopefully I can get under 300 in July!

Edit: I bought more stuff than usual for my parents and other visiting family members. Plus went through a rough patch, and bought prepared snacks a lot more often. So looking back, I spent more than if it were just me.

lucerorojo

I spend about $400-500 for one, in a city. I'm going to try and get down to $75 per week for food, bringing that down to $300 per month. That is the lowest I can do and still eat well I think. I don't eat out much--I used to, and probably spent about double, about $30 per day.