How much do you spend on food per week?

highrise

£60 on a big shop once a month for tins and water, meat, milk, bread etc. for the freezer, then £10 a week on fresh fruit and veg - so comes in at about £100 a month. I never run out of food, that's for sure!!

MzBug

Two of us here, 40-50 USD per week on perishables, and 100 every other week for meats and breads to put in the freezer. Depends on what's on sale and how great a sale it is.

NeuroticVirgo

About $100-$200 per week for 3 of us (or 2 1\2), We tend to stock up if its on sale, so it varies if we need to re-stock that week or not lol

thevetchling

Interesting straw poll this. Interesting to see we seem to be in the middle internationally, and there doesn't seem to be a big variation between countries.
And lots of people think they spend more than they'd like.
I think the biggest variation comes from WHAT people are buying, rather than where they live or shop.
Which means we can be more in control of our spending buy controlling what we eat, rather than where we buy it.
Not what the advertising industry would have you believe, who want you to buy the same bloody stuff from outlet A rather than B.
The more people who post here, the more statistically significant the results may become.
So thanks for all your replies, and please encourage more people to post their data here for me and others to ponder over.
Cheerio
Andy

ivyjbres

We (3) get about $250 in groceries over the course of the month, not including eating out. So probably $75-100 a week all together.

JDMPWR

$560-600 a month. My morning protein shake cost me roughly 6 bucks alone. 4-5 chicken breasts at 1.50 a pop. My daily cost is about 17-18 bucks.

missmiller1

We spend about $50 twice a month to stock up on bulk goods, frozen veg, and soymilk for the two of us. On Sundays we spend about $20 at the farmers market on fresh fruits, veg, and free range eggs. We don't buy a lot of meat, but when we do it really spikes up the bill!

Regards,
Chandra

ivyjbres

$560-600 a month. My morning protein shake cost me roughly 6 bucks alone. 4-5 chicken breasts at 1.50 a pop. My daily cost is about 17-18 bucks.

How do you afford a fridge to put that in?!?!?!

leslielove

Holy crap.. I regularly spend $20 a week or LESS for myself, and that includes meat/cheese/bread in addition to beans, rice, fruit and veg. I ended up under budget this week and managed to buy myself some treat-y sweet potato fries.

I can't imagine spending that much on food.. even when I wasn't eating clean I didn't really get about $30 or $35. I wonder if there's something I'm forgetting to eat haha

egbkid

I usually get about 90 to 100 (Canadian) dollars a month for a big grocery order, then weekly stock up at about 15 to 20, depends on what i need. Usually it is a loaf of bread, a tub of yogurt and some veggies or fruit. Staples are expensive here, so I usually try to stock up when things are on sale. Last week bread and hamburger were on buy one get one, so i bought 6 loaves and 2 family packs or burger, divinding it up and throwing it all in the freezer. So i will be good for a couple months on that stuff. The next month and a half should be a bit cheaper. All i need this week is Peanut butter, which is about 4 dollars for a small jar.

I am feeding only me, i buy my lunch once a week at work, trying not to go over 6 or 7 dollars, and on the weekends i almost always have company.

KarenBorter

I am spending anywhere between $ 50.00 / week US to $ 100.00 depending on whether or not I need meats. I typically try to buy all my meat then freeze it. I do know that since I started bringing my lunch 3x a week it's been saving me money!

paniolo5

4 of us (all adults) approx $170 -200 avg US per week. Lots of fresh produce, chicken, not a lot of pre-made/boxed except whole wheat pasta, cereal. Very little "junk" anymore (which is actually cheaper I'm finding out!). Hubbie & I eat 95% of our meals at home/packed lunches; 2 kids eat at g/b-friends several times each week. Estimate includes household items (soaps, cleaners, personal products).

Forgot - we also buy 1/2 a side of beef once a year, so I don't buy any beef at the store.

KellyBurton1

3 of us here, food is expensive here. About 200 a week! crazy I know. A bottle of 2 litre of Pepsi on sale is 99 cents and a 2 litre of fresh milk is $4.19. This is why there are so many over weight people.

thevetchling

This is tending to show how expensive specialist diet foods are. Someone is making a fortune out of flogging whey powder and other highly processed foods to those desperate to change their bodies. Less money is going to be taken from your valuable wallet if you do whatever processing of food is needed yourself. Oh and meat is expensive too. This I don't mind. It should be if the animals life is worth anything.

JDMPWR

$560-600 a month. My morning protein shake cost me roughly 6 bucks alone. 4-5 chicken breasts at 1.50 a pop. My daily cost is about 17-18 bucks.

How do you afford a fridge to put that in?!?!?!

Look at my diet log and you will see why...

Lyadeia

I normally spend about $75 US a week. Sometimes it is more because I need to replenish things like chicken breasts which I buy in bulk, but sometimes it is much less if I don't need to buy a lot of meat. This is for 2 people to eat 5 meals a day for 7 days.

erickirb

300 GBP divided between 2 and a half of us works out as

GBP 30
EURO 32
US Dollars 40
Yen 3700
Australian Dollars 46
New Zealand Dollars 60
South African Rand 310
Swiss Francs 43
Canadian Dollars 46
(That's enough Rates ed.)

per adult per week

Rough indeed the Canadian dollar is trading at 98 cents US so that would be close to $41 cdn if the $40 US is correct.

We spend $70-$75/week for 2 of us, my wife is a vegetarian, and I eat about an 80% vegetarian diet.

UpToAnyCool

Interesting article on correlation between how (cash or card) you pay and amount of 'splurge' foods or spontaneous purchases at NY Times.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/going-on-a-diet-start-paying-in-cash/

[If above link does not work, google the NY Times webstie and then look in the WELL blog.]

Cheers from
the Loopy Toucan

josparkle

Ispend around £250 per month for 2 adults and 2 kids in a mix of stores from Aldi to Tesco, M&S, markets and farmers markets. That cost includes all the other household spending though like loo roll, dog food and washing powder so I its less than £250 on food.
I've got quite alarmed over the past year at how much the bills have gone up and a top up shop which might have cost £20 is now over £30 - and after today's joyous tidings looks like we'll all be paying a lot more. Specially when VAT goes up.

I worked out that on milk and bread alone I pay over £10 a week esily and easily twice that on fruit and vegetables before I get to meat, fish, grains, pasta etc. I try to bulk buy a lot of stuff when on offer - fortunately I have a larder cupboard!

thevetchling

Having a big enough space to store stuff does make a big difference. We're moving from rented to our own house soon and have a garage that will actually be more of a pantry and utility space so hopefully we'll see our spend changing by being able to bulk buy stuff.
I have been actively trying to spend less money on food over the last month and this has cut the spend down by about a quarter, mostly by buying less meat and making our own bread again. Seems to be an effective way of cutting the budget.
I do remember buying stuff online to be delivered at home was good for cutting costs too, don't get tempted by distracting stuff I came into the supermarket with no intention to buy. Will try that again soon.