Shopping Bill

I live alone, but mine has gone down... I think even though I buy more expensive foods (like high quality cheese), because I'm portioning them correctly they last a lot longer. I have also cut down on the typical expensive items (like halving my glass of orange juice in the morning) which makes a noticeable difference.

I estimate I spend about $70 on groceries every ten days or so.

In the interest of full disclosure, however, I don't eat very much meat and tofu/eggs are a lot less expensive.

Grocery bill up, restaurant bill down. Shrugs.

As many others have said, my grocery bill has gone up but my overall expenses have gone down considerably. I used to get to work, buy a coffee and sometimes a pastry at Starbucks (~ $12), then grab a sandwich and drink or a food truck lunch ($15), then stop and get takeout for me and my husband on the way home ($35). So per day, I was spending around $62 and two of those meals were just for me--my husband was spending money on his breakfast and lunch too. If he was averaging the same I was, our combined total would be about $89 a day.

Now, I shop at an organic market and try to buy local, sustainably farmed goods whenever I can. My husband and I eat breakfast at home now and take either leftovers or organic frozen meals in for lunch. Our grocery bills average out to about $200 a week now.

$200 a week is a lot for two people, but way less than $89 a day.

I find that when I cook at home I spend a fraction of what I would spend in a meal out. One effective way I find of saving money is on meats. Some silly things like if you buy the chicken breast separate it costs about the same as the whole chicken. So I try to butcher things home. The cheaper beef and pork cuts are usually the ones that are best in stews, so I end up making huge amounts of stew. They go well with pasta, rice and potatoes, you can freeze it and it will last you a long time.
There are lots of good ways to save money and eat healthy, if you want to add me I would be happy to share some recipes

My fiance and I spend about $100-$135 a week on groceries. Not too bad I guess.

Same situation as many others: groceries up, additional spending is down. I used to grab a Wasabi or EAT soup for lunch and now I'm sticking to the salad in my canteen. The £4 I save every lunch time goes towards eating healthier at home. I've cut down my restaurant spend since coming out of a relationship too :laugh:

I don't think ours has really changed that much. I'm a pretty good cook so we never bought pre-packaged garbage in the first place. Sure Halibut and Salmon is more expensive than hamburger meat but that's not what I was cooking with in the first place. Fruits can be expensive when not in season but if you stick to seasonal stuff you can do very well. Whats really saving me money is no trips for Lattes, muffins, lunches out. That by far make my monthly spend less.