How much money do you eat a day?
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Maybe $4-$7 a day.
I spend $100-$150 weekly on groceries for 2 adults and one teenage girl. We live in midwest USA. We all eat most of our meals prepared from home. Not all of the food will be eaten in one week though.0 -
Where are you from that groceries cost $300 a week for two people? That seems extraordinarily high to me.
I probably spend about $150 every 2 weeks for our family of 4. I think I spend even less now that I'm tracking on MFP bc I don't make meals that require as many ingredients.
I would think a lot would depend on your budget and what you are buying. If one was buying a lot of fresh produce (particularly more "exotic" items) and choice cuts of meat and doing organic, etc I could easily see spending $300 per week for a couple of people.
We spend $200 - $300 per week for a family of 4...my kids are still small so they don't eat a ton yet...it's mostly my wife and I.
When I was poor, I basically subsided on beans and rice and roasted a lot of whole chickens and ate a ton of cabbage and ate a lot of eggs.0 -
Oh man. I wish I could spend $9 a day. Living in NYC is ridiculously expensive. I spend at least 15 but a day. And groceries cost us about 150 or more per week. It seems the healthier I want to eat, the more expensive things are.0
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My husband and I plus 2 dogs and a cat can get by on $200 in groceries and other essentials every 2 weeks. Sometimes more, sometimes less. We restock our meats once every month to month and a half.0
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500 a month avg0
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Oh his profile page it says he has suffered ED's off and on since he was 8.NerdTristan wrote: »I live on 30usd a month, my average daily food/money intake is 1-1.50 a day
I don't know. That doesn't sound real at all. Unless you're starving yourself.
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Food is roughly £3 a day. $4.39 in dollars. Coffee on the other hand.... Eek!0
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It used to be $75-80/week. Now that I have my middle child in the throngs of early puberty (so TWO eating machine children, ha!) and me in maintenance (which is approaching 2,200+ calories--WHOA), we spend ~$100-$120/week for a family of five (2 adults, 2 pubescent children, plus one preschooler).
Lots of Aldi/Walmart/ethnic market shopping to save big money. Learned how to be a frugal, wholesome food shopper years ago, when we were on hard times and had to make the food benefits (SNAP) last, while still making healthful/balanced food choices.0 -
Groceries, about $6/day (CDN).
But I eat out in restaurants a lot. Including those, it would be more like $10-11/day. Even higher if you add in alcohol.
That's just for me as one person. I splurge on stuff I really enjoy, though, like fancy chocolate, olive oil, cheese, fresh fruits from the farmer's market, sushi, you name it. My calories are limited and I like to spend them in as tasty and satisfying a way as possible.0 -
For myself I spend about 60 on food per week. I just find a couple recipes I want to try and pick out my snacks so I'm just buying the few ingredients I don't already have at home.0
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I spend about $50 a week on my family - myself, my husband, a 13 year old and 16 month old. However, my husband and I eat out almost daily (sometimes twice daily) for free, due to my job so that saves a lot. My in-laws live with us and insist on buying tons of groceries since we won't take rent money. Before they moved in, we were spending about $100 a week. Most of my budget is on fresh produce and protein bars (the stuff the in-laws don't buy).0
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I spend 225 every two weeks and maybe 40 or so weekly. We are a family of 4.0
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I'm doing a farm share which comes out to about $65/week for my husband and me - I loooove it as it is weekly yogurt, bread, cheese, meat, eggs, tofu and lots of vegetables, cuts down a lot on grocery shopping too (my favorite thing to avoid!) because then I'm only buying to augment the aforementioned instead of just 'anything.' But! We do eat out more than is really reasonable, and things like milk, pasta, sugar, coffee, still need to be purchased, so probably $150-ish a week total between us. So about $11/day.0
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$200-250/week - my husband and I & our 12 year old son - all raw ingredients for meals - except for my Greek yogurt (not including going out, which we do a few times a month). Could eat healthy for less by shopping sale meat/fish/veg...0
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It's impossible for me to calculate because:
--I grow a lot of my own food
--I barter with friends and relatives for food
--I harvest wild foods which are free (blackberries, mushrooms)
--I buy inexpensive local produce in the summer (U-pick) and can + freeze (example: cherries for .99/pound)
--I get a lot of food-related gifts
My grocery spending varies a lot, but it would be extremely rare for me to spend more than $40/week/person...so less than $5/day. I could eat for much less if I were able to consume more carbs. I have to follow a moderate-carb diet due to medical issues.0 -
Eek. This thread reminds me how much money a spend per day of food. I'm going to try to cut it down this week.0
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I spend about £50-70 a week for two people but that includes cleaning products and loo roll etc. So I guess it's somewhere between £3-5 per person per day which isn't too bad as we both take packed lunches to work so it's 3 meals a day plus snacks.0
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I spend $100 a month on groceries and $115 for my protein powder a month. I am single and very creative when it comes to food. If I do eat out, its only once a month. I prefer making my own food and pinterest is very helpful in that field. Aldi is the best store out there. But I do compare prices in other places in the neighborhood. Some stores have items for cheaper. So I usually do my shopping afterwork as all the stores are on my way home and I don't burn so much gas.0
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Aldi Rocks0
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350 a week or so.....family of five.....this includes alot of unnecessary luxuries though....wine, fish, steaks, etc....could probably get it down to 200 to 250 a week if we shopped better.0
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I just got back from the store with my week's worth of food and was wondering if the $60 was a lot, so I thought I'd ask around and maybe see what other people had to say. If I round up to account for some lunches I already had at home, I'm eating roughly $9 a day. That seems like a lot for me, but it's mainly because I'm a student and don't make very much money. Obviously any replies will similarly be high/low depending on your own circumstances, but I guess I'm just curious now that I'm paying more attention to what I'm spending my money on.
- $10 chicken breast = 250g average each ~ 9 days worth (I use 3.5 of them a month ~ $35, so $105 for three months)
- $12 Chia seed bag = 14g each day ~ lasts three months
- $14 flaxseed bag = 13g each day ~ lasts three months
- $12 five dozen egg = 7 eggs each day ~ 8.5 days worth (I use 3.5 of them a month ~ $42, so $126 for three months)
- $6 five lbs baby carrot = 226g per day ~ (1lb=453g) 10 days worth (I use 3 a month ~ $18, so $54 or three months)
- $48 protein powder 32g = 32g per day ~ 32 days ($144 for three months)
== $455 per three months
so, around $151 per month
which is around, $38 per week (close to $5.50 per day).
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For my family of 3, I spend about 270$ \ 300$ per week.
But everyone will have different answers to this because of family size, food preference, and area they live in , among other factors like income and so on. For example, someone who lives in Manhattan will likely have to spend more for the same type of groceries then someone in Ohio would .
We like fresh produce and my husband loves pricey steaks and we live at the Jersey shore so our bill may be higher then others.0 -
For two adults, we spend about $100 a week, both college students but we cook lots of interesting meals and eat very well. I'm sure we could spend less if we ate simpler but that's no fun!0
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$150 every 2 weeks for a family of 5. Midwest pricing, and my kids barely eat.0
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For our family of 4 (2 adults, a 4 year old and almost 2 year old), we spend $125 a week. And once a month I spend about $150 at Costco as well.0
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I just got back from the store with my week's worth of food and was wondering if the $60 was a lot, so I thought I'd ask around and maybe see what other people had to say. If I round up to account for some lunches I already had at home, I'm eating roughly $9 a day. That seems like a lot for me, but it's mainly because I'm a student and don't make very much money. Obviously any replies will similarly be high/low depending on your own circumstances, but I guess I'm just curious now that I'm paying more attention to what I'm spending my money on.
- $10 chicken breast = 250g average each ~ 9 days worth (I use 3.5 of them a month ~ $35, so $105 for three months)
- $12 Chia seed bag = 14g each day ~ lasts three months
- $14 flaxseed bag = 13g each day ~ lasts three months
- $12 five dozen egg = 7 eggs each day ~ 8.5 days worth (I use 3.5 of them a month ~ $42, so $126 for three months)
- $6 five lbs baby carrot = 226g per day ~ (1lb=453g) 10 days worth (I use 3 a month ~ $18, so $54 or three months)
- $48 protein powder 32g = 32g per day ~ 32 days ($144 for three months)
== $455 per three months
so, around $151 per month
which is around, $38 per week (close to $5.50 per day).
Do you have Trader Joe's/Aldi or Grocery Outlet in your area? You can probably find better prices on the flax and chia. Grocery Outlet sometimes has 3oz/85G bags of chia for 99 cents.
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I just got back from the store... I have a family of 5: two adults, two adult-sized teens, and a 6-year old. I spent $60 for mostly meat and vegetables, a couple of bread items, and some dairy/cheese. It should last 4-5 days, though my teens aren't always here for dinner. We will probably need a Walmart trip to stock up on yogurt, cereal, fruit and coffee, so figure another $30. I buy nuts, grains and other staples when I see them on sale. I live just outside of Chicago, so I don't think I'm doing too bad! I can't wait until my garden vegetables are producing though. That makes a big dent!0
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About $200 a month for myself, my SO and my 4 year old. This doesn't include dinners out (usually once a week) and most weekday lunches. I live in Iowa and shop a lot of sales and we don't eat a lot of red meat.0
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For family of four (two hungry kids) in uk I pay £80-£90 per week on my food shop. If we eat out it's a lot more but I try to keep this to a minimum.0
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