How much is your grocery bill every month?

Before I started eating healthy, me and my boyfriend would go out to eat for every meal. It became very costly, so we bought a small fridge and started eating food at home. That's when I started planning my meals very carefully and mindfully. Since then, for my own food I spent about $50 a week (we shop separately because I'm a vegan and he's not). I buy some things from Costco, which is a little costly up front but saves so much money in the long run.

It's really not more expensive to eat healthy, contrary to what most people say. If you stock up on lots of whole grains and beans, you can eat for pennies a day. Subtract out all of the food you may have been spending on fast food or going out to restaurants when you track your budget, too.

Some of my friends spend a couple hundred dollars a month on medication for diabetes, cholesterol meds, and other preventable issues. Some of them even sleep with C-Pap machines. These expenses should be added to your grocery bills as well because as they eat healthy and lose weight people generally come off medications. Of course, the lessening of aches, pains, and depression - you can't really put a price on that. It should all be taken into consideration in an overall "health and wellness" section of your budget (that includes gym membership, if you have one). At least that's the way I like to do it.

We spend about $150-$200 a week on all of our groceries and home supplies. I need to cut back a little, though - I find myself not planning my meals well enough and having too much leftover food that I can't get to!

Approx. 800-900. Yup.

$200-$225 every 2 weeks.

Costs more to shop healthier.

Why is it that everything that is related to being healthy or that has the word "baby" in it is double the price??

I'm at $200 for a family of 5. I make most things from scratch including ketchup, bread, chips etc. My husband, son and Mother in Law are vegetarians so I'm normally in the produce isle shopping seasonally.

When I was living on my own I was spending about 30-50 a week. Now I live with my fiance, and every week, unless we have to get something special, it's always between $92-$95. So, average of about $400 a month to feed two people, a small breed dog, and a Guinea Pig

Aldi's does have some deals. We also went to a local supplier, GFS-Gordon Food Service, and found 2 lb bags of restaurant quality frozen brocolli and frozen cauliflower for $2 each. People shouldn't be afraid of lower nutrients with flash frozen veggies that are picked and frozen within 8-12 hours of the picking. These can be more nutrtious than something that was picked a week before and shipped. Tonight I cooked another brand of frozen brocolli and there was no comparision to the GFS. We love Aldi's frozen young tender green beans. I tend to try different brands and stick to those with the most bang for your buck.

It's really not more expensive to eat healthy, contrary to what most people say. If you stock up on lots of whole grains and beans, you can eat for pennies a day. Subtract out all of the food you may have been spending on fast food or going out to restaurants when you track your budget, too.

Some of my friends spend a couple hundred dollars a month on medication for diabetes, cholesterol meds, and other preventable issues. Some of them even sleep with C-Pap machines. These expenses should be added to your grocery bills as well because as they eat healthy and lose weight people generally come off medications. Of course, the lessening of aches, pains, and depression - you can't really put a price on that. It should all be taken into consideration in an overall "health and wellness" section of your budget (that includes gym membership, if you have one). At least that's the way I like to do it.

We spend about $150-$200 a week on all of our groceries and home supplies. I need to cut back a little, though - I find myself not planning my meals well enough and having too much leftover food that I can't get to!

Great points on the medications being part of the over all bill. I agree I find it far less costly to eat healthy meals than eating out and eating empty calories. Now THAT is expensive and we have nothing much to show after the food is gone but unhealthy weight and unhealthy bodies.

I too buy beans, rice etc. in bulk and find it very cost efficient. We spend $125 a month on 2 of us and have wonderful and very healthy meals.

It CAN be Done!:flowerforyou:

I'm gonna estimate about 130 a week- like 500-600 a month

I spend about 200/week (for a family of four) I was actually spending more when I wasn't eating healthy because we piled on the snacks! I make a menu and that really helps as far as planing goes and keeps costs down.

I'm very limited on my food budget. Just above the fed requirements for being able to get food stamps so I get alot of things at food pantries. Most of what they give me would probably cost me about 50 a week. But then I spend about 50 a week on fresh produce and pop for my hubby. But I also shop around instead of all in one place so its really hard to tell. I also just spent almost 50 tonight just on meat. But I just bought enough meat to last my family for the next 2 months at least. Was an extremely good price on pork so we bought a bunch. But That is what I do when I can. In the summer I buy produce at the farmer's market cause it is cheaper there and I shop at Aldi's for certain things and I have a bread thrift store that sells the bread that is about to go bad pretty close so I shop there. Also USE coupons. I know they make it longer when you are at the store checkout but at some stores they double any coupon that is under $1 up to a $1 off and it really adds up in savings. I'm a huge coupon mom. Sometimes that means buying more of something then I need but I know I'll eventually use it.

So I know I got a little rambley there hehe But I'm a thrifty person and like to share how I do it with people:) But I probably spend about 200 on groceries every month but actually eat and use about 400 every month.

It is more expensive to eat healthy food. Do you have Aldi in your area? Their produce is very reasonable and of good quality for the most part. It's prepackaged so you might have to buy more than you want, for instance, I like cucumber in my salad but they come 3 to a package and it's hard to use them up sometimes. But their romaine hearts and spring mix are excellent and at just over half the price of the other supermarkets in my area, are a real bargain.

I do all of my shopping at Aldi. It's so much cheaper when you add it all up. My boyfriend and I do end up spending about $75 to $100 on average a week...sometimes less. This includes random trips to Meijer to pick up things we need between our biweekly grocery trips. Some things we spend more money (sashimi grade tuna @ $13.00 a pound so we can make homemade sushi) but most things we pick the cheap option. Unfortunately in my area, the aldi produce is less than stellar so we tend to get that at meijer.

We started out doing all of our shopping at Aldi, but we are paying $50/annually for chase ultimate rewards on our debit/credit cards....but you only get the points if you go credit when you use the card. Aldi only lets you use the card as debit. I agree that aldi's veggies aren't always the best quality, but they usually are pretty good if you go mid-week. They also have a lot of great "Fit and Active" stuff that tastes just as good as a lot of other low-fat options, though much much cheaper.

we food shop every week and our bill has actually gone down from about 100-120, to 80-90 a week now that we aren't buying processed foods and junk. we go to a local farmers market and can get enough fruits and veggies for the both of us for 25 or under. also, when you actually portion everything out it's amazing how much longer food lasts.

Me and my fiance are spending about the same amount! Its so great that we can actually spend less and seem like we are getting more. I totally agree with the portions, it really is amazing how a box of cereal can last SOO much longer when you are actually only taking ONE cup instead of 3 or 4 at a time! We also go for a lot of the gereric versions of healthy foods to save money and its working out pretty well.

About $100.00 a month for just me. But that's everything else too, not just food, so more like $80.00

My family of four is good on around $600 a month