How much do you spend on food per week?

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.

BoresEasily

I shop once every two weeks, spend about $120 U.S. Dollars, so $60 a week. I don't buy anything perishable for the most part, with the exception of whole wheat bread, whole wheat bagels, and some fat free cream cheese. Everything else is old-fashioned oats, whey protein, and fish oil/flaxseed.

Lordofultima, You're not eating any veggies, you can't live off your current diet. It's a short term thing only. You're also not eating any real meals. Everything listed is protein powder, you need real food. You can't live off of fish oil tablets and protein powder. For the good of your health... Eat some veggies! Also I don't care what Tony Horton says 190+ grams of protein isn't healthy. Just ask Brock Lesnar he grew up hearing protein protein protein and that's what he ate without enough veggies and it nearly killed him.

Same with you Jtuner, eat more veggies please and the amount of protein you're eating is crazy unless it's very short term.

katiegreaterthan3

About $50/week on food. Mostly fresh vegetables weekly. I spend about $30 on meat monthly since it's freezable.

BoresEasily

Now that I've said my piece on that. I probably spend 25-35 per trip to the grocery store and probably hit the store about 3 times a week. I buy a lot of veggies: spinach, cucumbers, tomatoes, baby carrots, mushrooms, whatever interests me that's on sale and then eggs, milk, bananas, frozen fruits, cereal, sliced turkey breast roast, and sprouted grain bread which costs 4.48 a loaf. I also buy a 1KG bag of almonds weekly which works out to $10 a bag. And once or twice a week I'll pick up a frozen pizza/couple of bags of chips, but at the moment I'm cutting that out for a few weeks. Just one thing... Frozen fruits when not on sale are a ridiculous price! 6.99 or 7.99 a bag!!!!! They're yummy and taste amazing in a smoothie though so they're worth it.