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Groceries $$

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  • I am a single adult that lies at home with her parents and older brother. I am encharge (or try to be, it is hard when your Senior Citizen parents goes behind your back) of the grocery shopping. We spend about $800 or more a month. I cut-out hundreds of $$ a month in coupons, subcribe to 3 sunday papers, print out tons of coupons online, grow my own garden (that cost $20 a year but saves $200), and I stock-pill.
  • Spanaval
    Spanaval Posts: 1,200 Member
    Yesterday and today, I did the bulk of my grocery shopping for the next two weeks. Spent $192 (for a family of 3, two adults and one two year old). This is almost entirely fruits and veggies (except for about $7 worth of chicken), some sauces/marinades, and does not include staples like lentils, rice and other Indian spices. Including those, probably looking at the $500/month ballpark, and we are not big meat eaters.
  • mnishi
    mnishi Posts: 419 Member
    I spend about $500-800 for two. We are trying to eat clean/ organic/ natural. Before that, I spent about a third of what I do now.
  • anastasiawildflower
    anastasiawildflower Posts: 197 Member
    I looked at our budget and it seems we spend around $300-$350 a month at most including take out.
    We keep a vegetarian/kosher-dairy household (husband is not) and split a CSA share with my parents for most of our produce.
    My family makes a lot of our own stuff from scratch- breads, jams, soy/almond milks, etc and trade them off.
    Guessing my husband eats around 2000 calories a day
    I am up to 2200 calories a day as I am eating for two!
  • TauTheBull
    TauTheBull Posts: 96
    $50-60 per week for me and sometimes $40
  • tajmel
    tajmel Posts: 401 Member
    Somewhere between $650 and $700 a month for a family of four. I aim for 1800 kcals. We're omnivores trying to eat mostly whole foods, local when possible (desert, man). When I was vegan we spent significantly less, like $150 less a month, but food prices have gone up too. I'd say we could reasonably cut down to the $500's and eat healthfully, but my husband is a junk food addict (expensive) and I'm a health food nut (also expensive).
  • PsiChi
    PsiChi Posts: 157
    About $200 for me and the reason is 1) I shop at the Co-Op which is a grocerry store that is 90% supplied by local farmers so it has a little bit more cost 2) all the product are 100% organic/natural and 3) I buy a good about of lean meat, and chicken.
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