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.

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.

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:

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.

It is just me and my fiance. I would say we spend roughly $200 altogether every month on groceries.

$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.