How much do you spend on groceries?
Espressocycle
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Eating better CAN be more expensive. All that fresh produce adds up. I think my wife and I spend about $500 a month, which seems like a lot. I've been doing more beans and cheap veggies like cabbage and buying less meat and cheese. Just curious how much everybody else is blowing at the supermarket.
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I usually spend $80-100/week for food only to feed Family of 3 (Me, Hubby and a 2 year old) Certain things we buy at Costco like snacks, ground turkey, etc in bulk but with all other non food essentials, so probably another $100/month there so probably about $500.00/month or so, give or take.0
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Family of 4-$125-150/wk0
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My boyfriend and I usually spend $50-$70 dollars per week, plus going out for a couple of meals. Which we should stop. That'd save a lot of money. So around $200-$300 per month, plus another $100 on eating out. California sucks.0
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We probably spend $300-400 a month for myself, boyfriend and 7 year old daughter. We do a lot of trips through the week and usually spend at least $40-50 each time. I just find good meats cost a lot.0
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Not all areas of the world pay the same for food so it's hard to compare.
There is one thing concerning food cost that I like to point out to people though.
Pound for pound, fresh food is cheaper than processed. For example...a pound of potatoes cost 50 to 100 times LESS than a pound of potato chips.
Just some food for thought.
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Break it down like this for a micro perspective rather than a macro one...
$500/4 weeks = $125 per week
$125/2 people = 62.50 per person, per week
Let's assume 3 meals per day...that's 21 meals per week per person...
62.50/21 = $2.98 per meal...that's pretty flippin' cheap.
My wife and I w/ 3 yr old and 8 month old spend about $200 per week...but that usually includes other incidentals like diapers...and booze for me...and wine...lots of wine...0 -
My wife and I w/ 3 yr old and 8 month old spend about $200 per week...but that usually includes other incidentals like diapers...and booze for me...and wine...lots of wine...
I don't bother separating out the non-food items from the grocery store. We can't buy booze at ours, so I don't count that. If I did... ugg, another $30-$40 probably.0 -
I feed a family of 4 for about $60-$100 per week. Including treats and one take out meal per week. So, I'd say about $300 or so per month.
I shop 2-3 time per week at a few different stores in our neighborhood. I buy what is on sale and that's what we eat that week, with the exception of a few staple items that my kids wouldn't survive without (apples, oranges, bananas, fish, milk, cheese),0 -
Break it down like this for a micro perspective rather than a macro one...
$500/4 weeks = $125 per week
$125/2 people = 62.50 per person, per week
Let's assume 3 meals per day...that's 21 meals per week per person...
62.50/21 = $2.98 per meal...that's pretty flippin' cheap.
My wife and I w/ 3 yr old and 8 month old spend about $200 per week...but that usually includes other incidentals like diapers...and booze for me...and wine...lots of wine...
Oh, we're counting the wine and beer are we??? Well in that case add an extra $20 or so to my weekly food bill. Ok probably $30...0 -
For my daughter and I we spend about $375.00 every two weeks but it is all fresh and I mean fresh produce or dried products such as lentils and beans. I bake my own breads using the vitamix dry blade. Fruit is fresh. I could save a little more by separating my own eggs. People look at my diary and see chipotle on it. I actually make the brown rice, beans, guacamole etc but use that on the app to track macros. My proteins are primarily Chicken breast, Turkey breast, sirloin, salmon, tilapia, and sometimes scallops.0
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We spend $200/week on average for me, hubby and 7 year son.
and eat 5-6 dinners a week from our kitchen.
We all bring our lunch from home during the week and eat out on the weekends.
That is a mix of fresh and convenience foods. I tend to eat cleaner than hubby does.
I eat dinner leftovers or salads for lunch.
Hubby eats sandwiches, Chunky Soups and snack foods for lunch.
Son also eats sandwiches, with fresh fruit and some sort of processed snack for lunch.
2 gallons of milk/week
1/2 gallon almond milk/week
2 boxes cereal
2 cases of pop/week (awful habit of DH, but better than the old beer habit
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5# chicken/week
2# pork chops
2# ground turkey breast or lean ground beef
Produce varies
We are in the mid-west so mid-to-low cost of living. But still, we pay more in groceries than we do for our mortgage, taxes, insurance and more in gas than our 2 car payments. Totally backwards.0 -
ummm where does everyone live?
Over $200 per week just to feed me and my wife. I'm in Philadelphia.0 -
ummm where does everyone live?
Over $200 per week just to feed me and my wife. I'm in Philadelphia.
New Mexico...and we do 98% of our grocery shopping and other shopping at Costco...bulk warehouse prices. I never thought I'd be eating 3-5 Lbs of broccoli in a week...but I do now, so makes my Costco membership very worth it.0 -
My wife and I w/ 3 yr old and 8 month old spend about $200 per week...but that usually includes other incidentals like diapers...and booze for me...and wine...lots of wine...
I don't bother separating out the non-food items from the grocery store. We can't buy booze at ours, so I don't count that. If I did... ugg, another $30-$40 probably.
are you in the bible belt? that sucks lol.... we can buy booze at drive through shops, every gas station, every supermarket most pharmacy's in fact the liquor store is one of the rarest places for me to buy booze. although i dont drink that much so could really not care but still.... wow0 -
We try and limit it to about $100 a week for my fiance and myself. That's not including we usually eat out at least once on the weekends, so that's another ~$50. But we don't spend a lot of money on other stuff, we don't go to the movies much or shopping. Food is our hobby lol0
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Approximately $100 a week to feed a family of 3.
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Last night for dinner for 6 people with enough left over for all of us to eat it for dinner tonight I spent 16.72.
So for 12 meals it come out to $1.39 per meal per person. :bigsmile:
Oh, and it was a huge salad (romaine, carrot, celery, and tomato), penne with a bolognese sauce and sourdough bread.0 -
Now that I bought all the essentials like buying quinoa, almond meal, pb2, etc.
It costs me around $20 - average/weekly.0 -
About $400 for the two of us. That also includes things like detergent and shampoo.
Ugh.
I do the bulk of it at Walmart but then get things like most meat and produce at the local grocer as the quality is about a billion times better.
We also almost never eat out and when we do it's cheap, so ALL of our meals come out of that $400.0 -
Long Island, NY here...
For a family of 3 + one absentee young adult, it costs us under 100 $ weekly in produce, milk, bread etc. (@trader joe's)
We spend about 400 $ every 4 to 6 wks at costco for meats, fish, rice, pasta and other pantry staples.
We don't eat out much.0 -
I'm a couponer so I spend very little as I stock up on our favorites when they are on sale.
I hardly every spend over $50 a week.
I do not buy meat every week but when I do buy it I stock up on it when it is on bogo and it last me and my hubby for quiet sometime.0 -
My fiance and I spend maybe $200-$300 a month for food. Fresh fruit and veg, frozen veg, morningstar veggie burgers, he buy chicken, beef etc. We freeze a lot of stuff, and look for buy one get one deals a lot.0
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at least £120 ($240?) a week for hubby and i and we dont drink or smoke either and dont buy crisps or chocolate/sweets/fizzy drinks.....i am a vegetarian and hubby quite fussy-so make separate meals for us....he does eat quorn mince in spag bolognaise (if i dont tell him its not meat and he actually prefers it to real mince!).but very little veg!
So i tend to buy frozen chicken fillets, defrost them and make him batches of homemade curries/sweet and sour/lemon chicken/pizzas and freeze them.
I usually buy frozen quorn products for myself.
i agree that is definitely more expensive in the uk to buy fresh produce- our nearest Lidl is £25 miles away and Aldi £45...so its usually local Tesco.
I make my own soups, bread (breadmaker-yummy!) and smoothies-i make bulk and freeze my soups. I use frozen fruit/veg for my smoothies as was wasting so much fresh produce. I also make my own popcorn and add my own flavouring so i know exactly what i am eating!:happy:0 -
We spend around $500 a month...I buy mostly healthy options. However my 20 year old son wont eat them so I must buy junk he will eat. He was in a terrible accident in October of last year. He was ran over by a truck, he suffered massive head trauma it has affected his personality somewhat. So he only eats certain things now..no veggies lol.0
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Around 200 to 250 for a family of five, and the same now with two extra people although the food prep is much more. Have discovered can spend 90. but had to use some pre-packaged things like bear creek soup for a meal. I am always looking for ways to decrease and eat healthy. We are starting a garden this spring.0
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ummm where does everyone live?
Over $200 per week just to feed me and my wife. I'm in Philadelphia.
me too. I spend a soild $200-250 on my family of 4. We all have food allergies and don't eat out too much.
Its well over $1K a month when factoring it all in.0 -
It is just me and my fiance. I would say we spend roughly $200 altogether every month on groceries.0
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I go to the Store once a week (for a family of 3) and usually spend about $100-$150 each time
Im in Illinois
But that does also include non food items as well0 -
$300-$400 a month for my husband and I.. I shop every two weeks, that includes household items, beer & wine. I shop for my low carb diet & my husbands "I eat whatever I want" diet. 0
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ummm where does everyone live?
I live in Calgary. Alberta, Canada.. There are a ton of "ethnic/asian" neighborhood supermarkets as well as 3 chain big box stores within walking distance. So I shop around A LOT but it's worth it. I agree that food is very cheap where I live though, compared to say Nova scotai where the price of food was about double what I pay here.0
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