How much do you spend on groceries?

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.

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.

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.

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...

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 )
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.

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.

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 lol

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.

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.